Photo: ©Honda Please, industry journalists, give it a rest. We get it—Honda makes nice cars. But this is getting silly. In less than a month, we’ve already written about Honda earning awards from major publications—including Consumer Guide Automotive, Kelley Blue Book, U.S. News & World Report, Motor Trend, and more—on seven occasions, and we’re fairly…
Photo: Honda The Civic Type R has long been the king of Nürburgring lap records, having claimed and reclaimed the fastest time among front-wheel-drive cars repeatedly over the years. And now it’s happened again. The former top time at the famous Nürburgring Nordschleife, where automakers love to strut their stuff, was set by the 2019…
To help promote the Honda Fit Challenge, wherein one lucky driver who proves their parallel parking prowess will win an all-new 2015 Fit EX-L Navi, Honda has acquired the services of one of YouTube’s most affable, recognizable, and charismatic celebrities. Of course I’m talking about Flula. What, you thought I was talking about the guy…
Green Car Journal has named the 2019 Honda Insight its 2019 Green Car of the Year at the Los Angeles Auto Show, marking the fourth time Honda wins the award. Made in Indiana, the all-new Insight is a four-door hybrid with panache and performance you rarely get from electrified vehicles in its price bracket. “Today’s…
Need a way to kill some time this afternoon and get yourself eligible to win an all-new 2015 Honda Fit? Then you absolutely need to take the Honda Fit Challenge. Unlike those other driving challenges that test simple skills, the Honda Fit Challenge wants to bring together the nation’s best to determine who is king…
Photo: Honda Honda has finally released the details for the new e electric city car that has been putting modern hatchback designs to shame ever since it was first introduced as the Urban EV Concept at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show. Despite its lovely retro style and all-electric powertrain, the Honda e is really a…
The world just got its first look at the next-generation Honda Civic Type R, which will be the company’s first truly global Type R (and yes, anxious Americans, “global” includes us). The new Civic Type R prototype debuted at the 2016 Paris Auto Show, offering a preview of what the production model will look like…
2015 Honda Fit at the Chicago Auto Show. If you’re anything like us, you’re extremely excited about the 2015 Honda Fit. Like, really excited. One might even say that you’re feeling jacked for it. It’s good to know, then, that if the price figures leaked yesterday by tlxforums.com user ChrisAP1 are any indication, we don’t…
Honda has announced that it will be the new sponsor of the Disneyland Resort attraction Autopia, a classic ride that allows visitors to steer specially designed bumper cars around an enclosed track. Honda also committed to continue its multiyear strategic alliance with Disneyland Resort. Autopia—a portmanteau of the words “automobile” and “utopia”—has been a part…
The 2017 Honda CR-V equipped with available LED headlights and Honda Sensing safety technologies has earned a Top Safety Pick+ rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Honda Sensing suite of safety and driver assistance technologies comes standard on EX and higher trims, and earned the CR-V a “Superior” rating for frontal crash…
Christian Horner, Red Bull Racing team principal, and Jim Farley, Ford President and CEO Photo: Ford In 2026, Red Bull Powertrains will partner with Ford to create Formula 1 engines for the Red Bull Racing team. But team principal Christian Horner says that if they had known Honda would be coming back to the sport…
The Honda Fit e:HEV hatchback, unveiled at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show, uses a two-motor hybrid system that works alongside its usual 1.5-liter combustion engine. According to Yasuaki Asaki, Honda’s head of power unit development, the automaker looked to its Formula 1 program for inspiration when building this new roadgoing powertrain. High Performance Driving: Honda…
Photo: Honda The 2019 German GP was full of dramatic twists and turns, but in the end, it was Honda that prevailed. With Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen on top and Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat in third, it marked Honda’s first double podium finish since the 1992 Portugal GP. Max Verstappen (left) and Daniil Kvyat…
Photo: AFEELA Sony has unveiled a handsome new prototype electric car it developed with Honda. It was revealed at CES 2023, an annual consumer electronics show that spotlights the biggest tech innovations in the world. It will be part of a new brand called AFEELA, though it’s not yet known what name the model will…
Photo: Honda Good news, Toyota and Honda workers: Japan’s two largest automakers have agreed to give their workers their largest pay raise in decades. Bad news, Americans: the raises are only for Japanese workers, who are supported by unions — the likes of which Toyota and Honda have carefully avoided in the U.S. by building…
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