Photo: Honda The 2020 Honda CR-V Hybrid has finally been announced and will begin arriving at dealerships tomorrow on March 1. It’s the most powerful and fuel-efficient CR-V yet, featuring the latest version of Honda’s two-motor hybrid system, an improved all-electric range, and an EPA-estimated city fuel economy of 40 mpg. The compact SUV is…
Photo: Jen_ross83 Worry seems to be a recurring emotion for Honda rivals. Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul expressed concern at Honda’s investment in the sport, and now Renault driver Carlos Sainz Jr says that Honda’s pace at the latest Formula One qualifying sessions is “worrying,” though he believes they are still doing well in the races….
Honda says the Honda Fit will become autonomous with Honda Autonomous Parking. Slowly but surely, technology in cars has advanced to become less and less reliant on the driver, allowing people to park with the push of a button and utilizing sensors to make sure drivers are staying a certain distance from the cars in…
Honda Sales in March were sky high thanks in part to the Honda Civic. While many American carmakers are seeing a slight sales decrease due to the harshest winter we’ve had in many years, American Honda Motor Co., Inc. continues show a large sales growth after posting its March Honda sales report. With total Honda…
HondaRacingCorporation.com Website Goes Live, Features Racer Videos Motorcycle racing fans, rejoice: This week, the new HondaRacingCorporation.com website went live, providing one place for regular news, features, and videos of the five main championships that HRC factory teams compete in. Team HRC in MXPG and Cross-Country Rally/Dakar, the Repsol Honda Team in MotoGP and Trial World…
Today Honda launched a completely new “about” website (www.Honda.com/about) redesigned to offer a “mobile-first approach,” with content that can be easily viewed on any type of device. The new website emphasizes the company’s slogan, “The Power of Dreams,” and focuses on the automotive brand’s past, present, and future with an interactive timeline. Called “The Honda…
Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car in the Indianapolis Grand Prix Honda-powered Simon Pagenaud and Ryan Hunter-Reay sped to a 1-2 finish at the Grand Prix of Indianapolis two weekends ago thanks to their superior race pace and fuel strategy. The start was hectic. Sebastian Saavedra, on pole and backed by a Chevy engine, stalled on the starting…
Got plans to be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year? Then you will have another opportunity to lay hands on two of Honda’s must stunning achievements in performance: the Honda Civic Type R and NSX concepts. Granted, neither the Honda Civic Type R concept nor the NSX concept will participate in the iconic…
Is the phrase “PLEASE STEAL ME” scrawled on here in invisible ink somewhere? LoJack, creators of popular vehicle theft prevention and recovery tools and products, have released their annual list of the 10 most stolen and recovered cars. It’s time to get happy, Honda Accord owners, because your car is the most stolen and recovered…
Honda has announced the Brownsville Drive-In in Pennsylvania has become the tenth drive-in theater to benefit from Honda Project Drive-In, a national effort to save as many of America’s drive-ins as possible. Unfortunately, the end of 35mm film distribution has meant that many drive-ins could not afford to stay open because of the steep cost…
Honda is going all out for this year’s Super Bowl: in addition to buying ad time to give the all-new 2017 CR-V it’s television debut, the automaker is also sponsoring a unique way for fans to make their own game day snacks without having to take a trip to the grocery store. Honda is teaming…
Much has been said about Honda’s competitiveness in Formula One and how Red Bull will have to dampen its expectations in 2019, its first season with the Japanese manufacturer. Supposedly, the F1 team is anticipating something of a J-curve, whereby it will first experience a dip in performance after losing the Renault engine, which will…
Introducing the Honda NeuV, complete with “emotion engine” It’s officially auto show season, which means automakers go from being companies that manufacture cars to significant others who know you’re in the mood to see more but only give you a peek at the shoulder. That’s right—it’s time for auto show teasers. Ahead of the 2017…
What’s New for the 2014 Honda Odyssey It is no redesign, but there are some noticeable updates to the Honda Odyssey for 2014. New sheet metal gives the Odyssey’s exterior a refresh, and Honda has loaded its flagship minivan with new standard and available features, including Bluetooth audio, HD radio, a Pandora internet radio interface,…
The 2016 Honda Civic Sedan Honda has earned two Hispanic Motor Press Awards, one for Best Compact Sedan and one for Best SUV, for the 2016 Honda Civic and Pilot, respectively. The awards recognize the best all-new or significantly refreshed vehicles for Hispanic families in 2016. “The all-new Civic and Pilot were designed to define…
Given how well 2018 went for Honda, it’s no surprise to see it doing so well again in yet another round of awards. Both the 2019 Honda Accord and 2019 Honda CR-V were named overall winners in the 2019 AutoWeb Buyer’s Choice Awards, and with five more awards in tow, Honda firmly led all brands…
2014 Honda Civic Natural Gas To match the forward-thinking technology that runs the 2014 Civic Natural Gas sedan, Honda has created a modernized exterior look that appeals to those looking to save a bit at the gas pump, while still staying true to the typical Civic look. One of the biggest exterior changes that allows…
Photo: Honda Honda F1’s managing director says the manufacturer has no plans to revive its Formula One factory team despite incoming budget caps that should, in theory, make it easier for new teams to get into the sport and be competitive. Honda is currently enjoying its best year in F1 since returning to the sport…
Honda’s 2015 Rose Parade float, Building Dreams of Friendship Honda is entering its fifth year as the presenting sponsor of the Rose Parade, the iconic New Year’s celebration that takes place each year in Pasadena, California. For the 126th Rose Parade, which will take place on January 1st, the Japanese automaker is doing something special:…
Honda is winning so many automotive awards that we’re now convinced that if everyone actually paid attention to awards, every car on the road would be a new Honda. After claiming countless trophies, honors, and recognition from just about every industry publication there is, Honda has just scored three more awards to add to its…
The tech-savvy interior of the 2017 Honda Civic Sedan The Honda Civic is truly the La-La Land of cars, in the sense that it’s been winning a lot of awards lately, and is probably going to win a lot more. The latest recognition achieved by the Civic is a 2017 Kelley Blue Book Best Auto…
The Honda S660 After selling out in Japan just four months after going on sale, the pint-sized Honda S660 mid-engine sports car may be coming to the US market. “We’re looking at it intently for North America,” American Honda executive John Mendel said in a recent interview. “We want some spice in the lineup.” Priced…
As he points out in the most recent installment of Jay Leno’s Garage, comedian and car aficionado Jay Leno already owns a gorgeous vintage Honda S600 roadster, which he featured on his web series last year. So why did Leno decide to focus on another ’64 S600 (and one that looks decidedly worse for wear)…
Franz Tost, team principal for the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team, says that Honda has come a long way in terms of reliability and have “exceed expectations” with the quality of its engines. Toro Rosso partnered with Honda after the 2017 season, at which point Honda had come under massive fire from McLaren for…
The explosion of ridesharing apps like Lyft and Uber has largely replaced the need for designated drivers, making it easier and safer than ever for sad sacks to drink alone. Inversely, the rise of smartphone technology has also made sober driving more dangerous, as people find themselves tempted to send text messages while they’re supposed…
Will Red Bull Racing choose Honda or Renault as its engine supplier for the 2019 Formula One championship? It’s the question that’s on everyone’s lips this summer, but according to the Missed Apex Podcast, Red Bull may have already signed with Honda several weeks ago. Though the team had claimed it would use the Canadian…
The 2016 Honda Civic on display at the Chicago Auto Show For the fifth time, Honda has been named the automotive industry’s “Best Value Brand” in Kelley Blue Book’s 2016 Brand Image Study. The award is based on responses from non-luxury new car shoppers. “This Best Value Brand award from KBB validates the efforts of…
Honda motorsport boss Masashi Yamamoto says the company is making a big effort to catch the frontrunners ahead of the 2019 Formula One season, and that it aims to have the third-best engine in the sport by the time the lights go out at the Australian Grand Prix in March. Third-best doesn’t sound like much…
The Honda Civic Type R recently went an impressive five-for-five on its tour of historic European tracks, setting a new record lap time for FWD models at each circuit. The hot hatch set new benchmarks for front-wheel-drive production cars at Silverstone, Spa-Francorchamps, Monza, Estoril, and Hungaroring. Back in May of 2014, the Civic Type R…
While Bugatti and Koenigsegg battle over making their production cars get closer and closer to the 300 mph barrier, Honda is busy laying claim to another record: that of the fastest lawn mower. It’s a record that Honda held for only a year. In 2014, the automaker built the hilariously-named “Mean Mower,” a lawn mower…
The star of Honda’s Fred Savage voice-over training videos, as he looked in 1989 Photo credit: Alan Light, CC Last month, former childhood star and current television director Fred Savage was announced as the new voice of Honda. But since Savage has had no formal experience narrating things (that was Daniel Stern who voiced grown-up…
Eddie Caldwell is the first to be featured in the “What Makes a Honda is Who Makes a Honda” video series. Honda employs more than 30,000 hardworking associates in North America, many of whom are as dedicated to their communities as they are to their jobs. To highlight their ongoing dedication to the communities in…
Red Bull Racing hopes Honda will be able to maintain the same rate of progress it showed with Scuderia Toro Rosso throughout the 2018 Formula One season, but Renault’s former engine partner doubts this is possible. Cyril Abiteboul, the Renault managing director who famously doesn’t get along with Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, believes…
The all-new 2018 Honda Fit Sport trim Honda has yet to reveal a release date or price for the refreshed 2018 Honda Fit, but the Japanese automaker did confirm that the upcoming hatchback will feature a new Sport trim, among other enhancements. For the 2018 model year brings, Honda has made significant updates to the…
Photo: Honda Honda is planning to introduce an extra engine upgrade for the 2019 Formula One season that will target an improved qualifying mode. The manufacturer finally clinched its first win at the Austrian GP this year after a 13-year draught and a difficult road through the new hybrid engine regulations. It came as a…
Photo: Honda The 2019 Honda Accord and 2019 Honda Odyssey have topped the midsize car and minivan categories, respectively, in Edmunds’ 2019 Retained Value Awards. This is the second time in a row the Accord has been featured, and the seventh time the Odyssey has taken top honors in the eight years the awards have…
Photo: Honda About a year and a half ago, Honda unveiled a delightfully futuristic retro urban EV concept that, after its warm reception at the Frankfurt Auto Show, seemed to have disappeared. We assumed, as with most concepts, that it would never see the light of day. As it turns out, that was wrong. Now…
The Red Bull Racing Formula One team has two major decisions to make very soon: to switch to Honda engines or stay with Renault, and whether to negotiate a new contract with Daniel Ricciardo. Both have been the subject of a lot of press and speculation, and both could significantly affect the future of the…
The fully-redesigned 2016 Honda Pilot is now in dealerships, carrying with it a starting manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $29,995, not including the $880 destination charge. The newest model of the third-generation Pilot offers a lot of changes, including a new and improved powertrain and fresh safety and technology features. [wptab name=”What’s New”] What’s New…
Each year, Consumer Guide puts out its Best Buys in a number of categories, including Automotives. To do so, the editors test drive over 150 new vehicles, review them, compare them, and pick out the top choices as the guide’s Best Buys in each category, ranging from Subcompact Cars to Sporty/Performance Cars to Large Pickup…
Honda vehicles have been around for decades and are firm favorites with American drivers. You can probably pick out a recent Accord or CR-V on the road, but how much do you know about classic Honda models? [wptab name=”Z600″] The 1970 Honda Z600 Photo: CH’7K, Flickr 1970 Honda Z600 The Honda Z600 was a quirky-looking…
The 2018 Honda Clarity Series has earned the 2018 California Air Quality Award for Corporate Environmental Stewardship by the Coalition for Clean Air, a non-profit organization that aims to promote clean and healthy air in California as well as advance technologies, laws, and environmental practices to that end. The Honda Clarity Series is a lineup…
Photo: Honda The first two races of the 2022 Formula 1 championship looked very good for Honda. Though the engine manufacturer is leaving the sport at the end of the year, it clearly wanted to do so with a bang (the make-a-great-impression kind of bang, not the engine-blows-up kind). Honda had its struggles when rejoining…
If you’ve ever been involved in a car accident and found yourself saved from irreparable damage by an airbag, you’ve probably thanked somebody—maybe your parents or your deity of choice, maybe the airbag itself or some abstract idea. If you’ve found yourself in a similar situation whilst behind the wheel of a Honda, you can…
This 2002 Civic is one of many vehicles being recalled by Honda, which received a $70 million fine for underreporting claims In addition to a five-star rating for the 2015 Fit, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has also awarded Honda a $70 million fine, which the company earned by “failing to report deaths, injuries,…
Perhaps the greatest looming economic crisis is the massive amount of jobs that will soon be lost to automation. In the same way that robotics have made many manufacturing jobs obsolete, autonomous vehicles will soon be putting taxi drivers and truckers out of work. And now, Honda has created a device that threatens to take…
Good news for students involved in Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) programs: it has been announced that Honda Performance Development will make their products available to academic organizations through membership in the Honda Racing Line. Any university that runs SAE-affiliated programs such as Formula SAE and Baja SAE will be able to gain membership in…
Wow, they sold out The Taraday?!? These kids are going places! Everybody has a good band name up their sleeve, just in case they ever need one. I’ve never taken guitar lessons and I have a fairly unimpressive singing voice, but if anyone ever wants to form a band around my ability to play lead…
Are you under 20 and looking for a new car under 20 grand? According to U.S. News & World Report, the 2019 Honda Fit is the car for you. It earned the publication’s “Best New Car for Teens Under $20,000” award, and we’re inclined to agree with that assessment. Earlier this year, the Honda Fit…
So far, Honda has created two memorable ads for its all-new 2017 Ridgeline: a Super Bowl commercial that used singing sheep to promote the vehicle’s in-bed audio system, and a video demonstrating the pickup’s superior bed strength when compared to the Silverado and F-150. But those were both English-speaking videos—what does Honda have for Spanish-speaking…
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