Celebrate the Happy Honda Days By Helping Raise Money for Orange County Children’s Hospital
As true observers know, the “Happy Honda Days” aren’t just about shopping and crass commercialism—this is also a season of giving. There’s a reason that charitable donations always tend to spike around this time of year, you know. For its part, Honda celebrated the season by giving a special experience to kids stuck spending the […]
Man Remembers True Spirit of the Happy Honda Days, Buys Wife a CR-V [VIDEO]
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While some people may feel that the Happy Honda Days have become too crass and commercialized, it’s good to see that there are some folks out there who still hold dear the true spirit of generosity that defines this special time of year. Like this dude, who actually gifted his wife a brand new Honda […]
How to Talk to Your Family About the Election During the Happy Honda Days
It’s November, and you know what that means: the Happy Honda Days are upon us. Usually, this season is a time for American families to come together. But every four years, we have an election, meaning that the usual festivities are fraught with tension, as family members clash over the alleged virtues and shortcomings of […]
The Happy Honda Days are Upon Us [VIDEO]
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Boy, it seems like the Happy Honda Days arrive earlier each year, doesn’t it? It’s not even December, there are still plenty of Thanksgiving turkey leftovers sitting in the fridge, and already we’ve been inundated with commercials for Honda’s annual celebration of vehicles and consumerism. Is nothing sacred? Ad Breaks: New tw0-minute Honda commercial created […]
Happy Honda Days Campaign Goes Big with Michael Bolton
It’s all about the flash and sparkle during the holidays, whether it’s with holiday lights cued to music or some sparkly garland for the tree. Honda gets this and, to promote the Happy Honda Days campaign, has decided to partner with one person who is guaranteed to bring the pizzazz—multiple Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Michael Bolton. […]
The Magic Snow Globe VR Experience Brightens CHOC Patients’ Holidays
Honda is working to bring a bit of well-deserved holiday cheer to patients at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County this year with a unique virtual reality adventure. Honda’s The Magic Snow Globe VR experience provides each patient the opportunity to go inside a snow globe and experience all the holiday-themed magic it contains via […]
Honda Driver Hunter-Reay Leads Friday Practice at Mid-Ohio
On Friday, Honda drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay and Scott Dixon led the way in the Verizon IndyCar Series practice for Sunday’s Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Hunter-Reay and Dixon finished the day first and third on the time charts, respectively, after a pair of 45-minute sessions. Andretti Autosport’s Hunter-Reay, a previous Mid-Ohio […]
Honda Looks Good During “Fast Friday” at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The aptly named “Fast Friday” took place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this, uh, Friday, and the racecars that took to the track were, well, pretty fast. That’s especially true of Honda drivers, who dominated the speed chart in the final day of Indy 500 practice before qualifying begins on Saturday. With turbocharger boost turned up […]
Honda December Sales Cap Off Automaker’s Best Year Ever
The Happy Honda Days were good to American Honda Motor Co.—not only did the brand enjoy its best-ever December sales last month, but the seasonal sales event also capped off the automaker’s best-ever year. The Honda division set a new annual record in 2015, with sales of 1,409,386 total units, good for a 2.6% increase […]
Honda and Acura Sales Both Down in November
American Honda Motor Co. had a disappointing November, with sales of 115,441 Honda and Acura vehicles representing a 5.2% decrease in sales when compared to the company’s record-setting November 2014. Fortunately, the Happy Honda Days of December should help the Honda brand rebound from its 4% decline. But the Acura brand, which tumbled a full […]
Honda Giving Away a Free Accord and Other Prizes on Twitter
The Happy Honda Days are upon us, and although these aren’t “real” holidays, per se, they do feature some real gifts—all of which are just a retweet away. As part of its #OpentheCheer campaign, Honda will be giving away special prizes every day to Twitter users who retweet each daily entry tweet. It’s sort of […]
Honda Plugs 2016 Pilot with A Capella Rendition of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly”
If you follow the exciting world of car commercials, you know that Chevy recently tried (and failed) to court the Millennial market with a horrible, terrible, no-good song about emojis. Now, Honda is trying to appeal to the older end of the 18-to-34-year-old demographic with the classic Weezer hit “Buddy Holly,” which the automaker says […]
Honda Sets Fuel Efficiency World Record with Civic Tourer
They said they’d do it, and they did: Honda has set a new Guinness World Record for “lowest fuel consumption – all 24 contiguous EU countries (all cars)’, recording an average 2.82 litres per 100km (100.31 imperial miles per gallon, or about 83.6 mpg in the US) over 13,498km (8,387 miles). The fuel efficient feat […]
New Honda Sales Record Set in 2014
Another holiday season has come to a close, and so too has another merry Happy Honda Days season. Very merry: In spite of bad press from recalled vehicles, Honda finished strong in December, selling 67,479 units that month, which was good for a 6.2% increase over last year’s December sales. It was a strong finish […]
Honda Toy Tunes: Skeletor and He-Man Are Friends Now
With the exception of those lame Fred Savage-narrated home movies, Honda has been on a real roll lately when it comes to its promotional videos. From the OK Go music video featuring Honda UNI-CUBs, to the awesome (and awesomely fake) Honda Civic Type R “The Other Side” film, to the recent Happy Honda Days commercials starring classic […]
Win a Fit in Machinima Ultra Street Fighter IV E. Honda Challenge Sweepstakes
If you’re anything like me, you spent an incalculable amount of your life in the 1990s standing in an arcade with your elbows resting on a Street Fighter II cabinet. You’d spend hours every morning boning up on your down, down-forward, forward, punches and down, down-back, back, kicks in the hope that every last Hadoken […]
Toyota Helps Huntington, West Virginia Food Bank Feed Locals Faster
The “Happy Honda Days” may garner a lot of attention for Honda during this time of year, but the automaker isn’t the only brand making the most of this season. Case in point: Toyota announced today that team members from the Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Viginia (TMMWV) plant have gotten in the holiday spirit by […]
Acura TLX Commercial Shamelessly Rips Off Groundhog Day
In an article published earlier this month about Acura’s poor November sales, I opined that the luxury brand should follow the lead of its parent company and boost December profits with a holiday-themed sales event, similar to the Happy Honda Days. My casual suggestion was for a Jewish-ish eight-day clearance special called Hanacurah, the Festival […]