Honda introduced this adventure-sports touring nameplate in 2012, using the company’s VFR V4 lineage to create a road-biased long-distance machine with an upright riding position and touring-friendly bodywork. It was sold in many markets as the Crosstourer and sat near the top of Honda’s “X” family, aimed at riders who wanted the comfort and stability of a large travel bike with a more adventurous stance than a conventional sport-tourer.
A key part of its identity was the available Dual Clutch Transmission, which helped distinguish it from many rivals and tied it to Honda’s broader push to make automatic shifting feel natural on motorcycles. Over its run, Honda kept the model fresh with market updates and special editions, including revised equipment and styling changes for later model years. The model remained a single continuous production run and was listed by Honda as a discontinued motorcycle with a 2012–2018 production period. It became a notable example of Honda’s early-2010s experimentation with premium crossover motorcycles, bridging the gap between touring comfort, on-road performance, and the visual cues of an adventure bike.