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Indeed, once Honda developed electronic fuel injection, CVCC was done. But in the highly innovative atmosphere of Seventies Honda, the triumph of CVCC highlighted, in some executives’ minds, the company’s lagging position in an area of major automotive breakthroughs: electronics. And the stratified-charge system was a victory, a clever mechanical design that allowed the company to meet tightening emissions standards without catalytic converters. History records Honda’s mid-Seventies CVCC engine as an unqualified success, a shining example of ingenuity from a relatively new automaker.
