Further details have emerged on Honda's heavily revised 2003 CBR 600. Honda state that the new CBR 600 takes a lot of design cues from Valentino Rossi's MotoGP dominating RC211V.

Honda also say the following, "single-minded intent to restore the 'CBR' name as the undisputed high-performance benchmark of the middleweight Supersport class, this new creation was given Honda's famed 'RR' mark of distinction, which currently graces the popular and highly tuned CBR RR FireBlade."

In the looks department the most immediate departure from the norm' are the striking new headlights and underseat muffler. The Ram-Air intakes have been modified and feed to a repositioned airbox. The new exhaust system snakes under the engine before rising up and over the rear tyre to a stainless steel muffler.

Honda claim the engine is all new. After some CAD calculations Honda found that the Bore & Stroke was ideal in it's current ratio and so those measurements remain the same. Engine width has been reduced at the crankshaft through the repositioning of many components. Moving the crankshaft starter gear has realised a 3-degree improvement in available lean angle.

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