Honda has released its 13th annual North American Environmental Report (NAER), which details the environmental impact of its operations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017. The report spans 51 pages, but you won’t have to read through all of that to get an idea of Honda’s…
A lot of new safety technologies depend on the car’s ability see things you can’t. After all, you have just two eyes, which you can only point in one direction (presumably, anyway) and whose vision may be obstructed by the car itself, whereas the car can have a number of cameras and sensors. But what…
The 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marked the last race McLaren and Honda would complete together after a difficult three-year partnership. Because of the unstoppable force that McLaren Honda had been in the 80s and 90s, the announcement that they would be reunited starting in 2015 had been met with excitement and high expectations. But…
Honda announced today that it has renewed its commitment to IndyCar, after signing a new multi-year agreement that will keep the manufacturer in the Verizon IndyCar Series through 2017, with an optional extension through the 2020 season. American Honda and Honda Performance Development (HPD), its racing subsidiary, have been a part of open-wheel racing in…
Honda landed not one, not two, not three, but four spots on the US News & World Report list of the “2017 Best Cars for Families.” The 2017 Honda CR-V, HR-V, Pilot, and Odyssey were each recognized as best in their class. Their victories were determined by a combination of professional automotive reviews, safety and…
2017 Honda HR-V How good were Honda’s sales in September? So good that the automaker was compelled to use the word “robust” three times in its annunciatory press release. Also, so good that the word annunciatory was just used in a sentence. Honda’s sales were so good in September that the mere act of reading…
The 2019 Honda Accord and 2019 Honda Civic have been named to Car and Driver magazine’s “10Best” list for 2019, reaffirming the Accord as the most successful car in the history of the award. It’s now the 33rd time the model has been featured on the list. Introduced not much more than a year ago,…
The Honda Racing team at the National Auto Sport Association 25 Hours of Thunderhill race Honda’s 12-part What Makes a Honda is Who Makes a Honda video series usually focuses on one individual who helps in some stage of a Honda vehicle’s production, be it on the manufacturing line or in the engineering department. This…
2017 Honda Accord Sedan Touring American Honda Motor reported a new November sales record last month with deliveries of 122,924 Honda and Acura vehicles, up 6.5% from sales in November 2015; sales of American Honda trucks increased 9.9% for a new November record of 62,737 units. Honda Division scored a new November sales record of its own…
Honda’s not-at-all-creepy Grad Dad is here to guide recent college graduates into the adult world If you’re one of those people who looks to car manufacturers for a father figure, you might want to consider Honda or Acura. GradDad won’t teach you how to get a dimple on your tie or shave with a straight…
Photo: Honda Honda once more dominated the annual Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards, earning more category wins than any other brand. The awards, which are the result of a year-long process of evaluation and testing of almost all new vehicles sold in the United States, strive to provide customers with an overall vehicle recommendation…
New Honda Civic Type R photos and details confirm its top speed, awesomeness The Honda Civic Type R will make its official debut (dressed in “Championship White”) at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, which runs from March 5th –15th and frankly, just feels so damn far away. Knowing we can’t wait a whole month with nothing…
The dangers of texting and driving have been well-documented, so why not let Siri™ do it for you? You will soon be able to in select Honda and Acura vehicles, including the 2013-2014 Honda Accord. Honda is making Apple’s Siri Eyes Free mode a dealer installed accessory, which will allow iPhone customers to direct Siri…
In what has become something of a trend, last month Honda enjoyed record sales, while the company’s luxury brand Acura continued to underperform. Today the automaker reported total sales of 152,799 Honda and Acura vehicles, setting a new July record and representing a 4.4% gain over last July. The record sales were driven almost entirely…
As the year comes to a close, Honda has something big to celebrate: every 2018-2019 model tested this year has earned the highest-possible five-star score for overall vehicle safety in crash testing by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, making the Honda lineup one of the safest in the industry. Of the 12 tested models,…
Photo: Honda Honda has announced that reservations for its new all-electric model, simply dubbed the e, have now been open in select European markets. Originally presented in prototype form as the Urban EV Concept two years ago, the Honda e represents a major step forward for Honda, blending retro styling with a sporty, rear-drive electric…
Honda just put out a press release that promises to “heat up New York” and opens with the words “attention music fans,” so you know they mean business. And what exactly should you melody-loving Millennials be paying attention to? The reveal of which artists will be taking part in the 2016 Honda Civic Tour, set…
The Honda Civic Type R speeds by in the new Honda YouTube video ad, “Keep Up” “I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes,” Woody Allen used to joke in his stand-up act. “It involves Russia.” Similarly, we took a speed-reading course and read this wordy new Honda YouTube video…
Honda Canada President Jerry Chenkin accepts the 2016 AJAC Car of the Year award After being selected as one of three finalists at last month’s Montreal International Auto Show, the redesigned tenth-generation 2016 Honda Civic has won the prestigious Canadian Car of the Year award. The selection was made by the Automobile Journalists Association of…
Max Verstappen in the rain in Germany Photo: Honda Honda F1 technical director Toyoharu Tanabe says the manufacturer is facing a “very complicated” decision regarding when to trigger a grid penalty in the second half of the 2019 season. Formula One teams are limited to three engines per season, with any extra new parts incurring…
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Bethune-Cookman returned to the 2016 HBOB for the 11th time The 14th annual Honda Battle of the Bands (HBOB) Invitational Showcase was a rousing success, as over 63,000 spectators gathered in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome to watch eight marching bands from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) put on a display of their choreography and musical…
The 2015 Honda CR-V The so-called “Year of Honda” is off to a pretty good start, as the brand sets a monthly sales record in January 2015 with 90,202 vehicles sold. That marks an 11.6% increase over American Honda’s January 2014 sales. America’s best-selling SUV in 2014, the Honda CR-V continued its dominance by moving…
Because Honda has made us wait so long for the European-spec production model of the Civic Type R hot hatch, we’ve had plenty of time to speculate on whether or not an American version will ever materialize. In December, there were serious rumors that a US Honda Civic Type R model was in the works,…
Ludacris’ 1993 Acura Legend, much like his record sales, has seen better days Rapper, actor, and Fast & Furious mainstay Ludacris has talked at length about his beloved 1993 Acura Legend, which was even featured on the cover of his 2015 hip hop album, Ludaversal. During an appearance on Conan back in April, Ludacris said…
The strangely-named Honda Concept B Hybrid Usually when an automaker brings a new concept to a major auto show, they’ll be sure that it is equipped with a name that is alluring or intimidating or even just so damned confusing that you can’t help but want to talk about it. Honda, on the other hand,…
Honda came out the definitive winner of the first IndyCar race at the Portland International Raceway in a decade, with Takuma Sato claiming victory and fellow Honda drivers Ryan Hunter-Reay and Sebastian Bourdais completing the podium. It marked Sato’s first win since last year’s Indy 500 and it was his ability to balance speed and…
After a disappointing qualifying on Friday, Scott Dixon and the Honda-powered Chip Ganassi Racing team rebounded to score a strong second-place finish at the INDYCAR Grand Prix held at the road course within the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. With his tires having lost heat, Dixon had only managed to qualify 18th during his qualifying runs, but…
The backup camera of the 2015 Fit is one of the many reasons Honda earned “Highway Safety Heroes” honors For its dedication to make drivers safe, Honda was the sole automaker this year to earn the distinction of “Highway Safety Hero” from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. With 95 percent of all 2014…
American Honda truck sales soared in September, continuing the trend of declining passenger car sales and increasingly popular large vehicles, even as gas prices go up. With the CR-V once again taking the charge, Honda’s truck division set a new September record, up 6.3 percent over 2018. The CR-V was just shy of a personal…
A worker at the Greensburg, Indiana, plant assembles a Civic Natural Gas Vehicle Today, Honda is celebrating a new landmark: the production of its 30 millionth vehicle manufactured in North America. The achievement is the result of the combined efforts of the company’s eight auto plants in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, which in…
Honda has released a new European car commercial for the Honda HR-V, just weeks after its Civic Type R ad was banned from British airwaves by the Advertising Standards Authority for allegedly promoting speeding. This one’s pretty entertaining, so hopefully it doesn’t get pulled for encouraging the dangerous practice of playing in traffic. Take a…
After recently announcing a generous $1 million dollar donation to the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, Honda said today that it will donate an additional $1 to the hospital for every “Like” or “Share” that social media users give to this new video of young hospital patients interacting with the Japanese automaker’s ASIMO robot….
Photo: ©Honda You’d think that January’s extreme weather would have kept people away from the dealerships, but apparently the Power of Dreams™ is too strong to overcome. American Honda reported a 1.5 percent sales increase in January, with the Honda brand gaining 0.8 percent and Honda trucks setting a new sales record for the month,…
Photo: Toyota Will 2020 be yet another record year for crossovers, SUVs, and pickup trucks? One month in, the numbers are looking good — at least for American Honda. The Japanese brand’s North American division reported a new January sales record for its light trucks: 52,800 deliveries were made, up 2.3 percent from last year….
2020 Honda HR-V Touring Photo: Honda American Honda has announced a new February sales records, with both cars and trucks surging over the 29-day month. The company sold 120,006 vehicles in February, up 4.2 percent overall, with trucks gaining 6 percent and cars gaining 2 percent. Even accounting for leap year, that’s still an impressive…
Photo: Honda Honda set a new September sales record to cap off a strong 2020 Q3, its first month of positive sales since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Honda brand sales were up 11 percent while Honda trucks (including SUVs and crossovers) were up 20.4 percent, a record performance for the month. September thus marked a…
Honda has announced the updated 2019 Civic Si coupe and sedan will hit dealerships on the first day of November with a starting MSRP of $24,300 for both models, representing just a $200 increase over their 2018 variants. The Civic Si is the performance-oriented version of the Civic that’s still more affordable than the track-focused…
The Honda Civic Hatchback Prototype features a stylish rear fascia complete with green accents While rival brand Nissan used the stage at the New York Auto Show to show off its newest GT-R performance car, Honda used the opportunity to introduce its Civic Hatchback Prototype to the North American market. The hatchback is the third…
This Honda N-TRUCK/N-CAMP concept will be featured at the Japan Camping Car Show 2015 Honda makes two kinds of vehicles for the non-American market: the kind that are so awesome we desperately cling to the hope that they’ll one day come to the US (think Civic Type R), and the kind that we have no…
The new episode of Honda Racing: at Speed focuses on Takumo Sato’s thrilling victory at the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500, in which he became the first Asian driver to win the iconic racing event. The monthly recap of Honda Racing and Acura Motorsports news recently premiered on MavTV, as well as the Honda…
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2015 Honda CR-V. The News Wheel is a digital auto magazine providing readers with a fresh perspective on the latest car news. We’re located in the heart of America (Dayton, Ohio) and our goal is to deliver an entertaining and informative perspective on what’s trending in the automotive world. See more articles from The News…
2015 Honda CR-V. The News Wheel is a digital auto magazine providing readers with a fresh perspective on the latest car news. We’re located in the heart of America (Dayton, Ohio) and our goal is to deliver an entertaining and informative perspective on what’s trending in the automotive world. See more articles from The News…
Photo: Hyundai/Honda When it launched as an all-new 2018 model, the Honda Accord was praised across the industry. It was even named the Edmunds Top Rated Sedan twice in a row. But the Accord has been largely unchanged since then, and Hyundai is now the one with an all-new model in the Sonata. Can the…
2015 Honda Fit The News Wheel is a digital auto magazine providing readers with a fresh perspective on the latest car news. We’re located in the heart of America (Dayton, Ohio) and our goal is to deliver an entertaining and informative perspective on what’s trending in the automotive world. See more articles from The News…
2015 Honda Fit The News Wheel is a digital auto magazine providing readers with a fresh perspective on the latest car news. We’re located in the heart of America (Dayton, Ohio) and our goal is to deliver an entertaining and informative perspective on what’s trending in the automotive world. See more articles from The News…
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The News Wheel is a digital auto magazine providing readers with a fresh perspective on the latest car news. We’re located in the heart of America (Dayton, Ohio) and our goal is to deliver an entertaining and informative perspective on what’s trending in the automotive world. See more articles from The News Wheel.
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