Honda boasts most top safety-rated vehicles built in the U.S. Today, Honda announced that it has the most top-safety rated vehicles made in America, even more than American automakers such as Ford and Chevy. Specifically, four of Honda’s American-built 2014 models have earned the distinction of Top Safety Pick+ from the Insurance Institute for Highway…
Today Honda announced its intentions to introduce vehicles with “Level 4” highly automated driving systems installed by the year 2025 (if mankind is still alive…) This comes after an earlier announcement that Honda and Acura vehicles will feature “Level 3” highly-automated freeway driving capability by 2020. Honda says both targets are crucial to the automaker’s…
The 2006 Honda Civic lineup Photo: Honda The Civic is one of Honda’s longest-running nameplates in the U.S. The sporty compact has been on sale in North America since 1972, when it debuted with a 1.2-liter engine. The Civic led the way for other small (and therefore more efficient) cars when the price of gas…
2016 Honda Accord sedan The 2016 Honda Accord sedan features a redesigned exterior and comes with a starting MSRP of $22,105. Besides offering excellent fuel efficiency and reliability, the Honda Accord sedan also offers the choice between two capable engines and it’s also available with a long list of advanced safety technology. The 2016 Honda…
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Have you ever stopped and looked at the Honda logo? Photo: JD Hancock via CC In the imaginative and diverse world of automotive logos, Honda’s isn’t the most unique. Essentially, it is a big “H”—and it’s not a mystery what the letter stands for. It’s like what Superindendent Chalmers said after realizing the “H” badge…
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The popular Honda S2000 has been out of production for more than… Talk to young gearheads at your local car meet and you’ll likely… If you had to guess the most popular Japanese classic car, what… American Honda devotees have been clamoring for a new sports car for… Fans of the Acura NSX sports car,…
Through its Honda Stage music program, Honda is partnering with FOX to… Despite what its title may lead you to believe, Uncharted: Power of… Back in June, we discussed the 2014 Honda Civic Tour, which will… American Honda is teaming up with Clear Channel Media and Entertainment (iHeartRadio),…
Photo: Honda The 2021 Honda Odyssey has earned a 2020 Top Safety Pick+ rating, the highest accolade granted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. It’s the first minivan to be awarded with a 2020 TSP+ rating, and the only one to have earned a top Good+ rating for the ease of use of its…
Look: Honda really, really wants you to buy a 2015 Fit if you’re a Gen Y-type. We know that a great many Millennials will tell you that they’ll, like, buy a car when they can, y’know, afford it, man. But, hey, real talk: you should really buy a Fit when you can. To make sure…
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Photo: Honda The 2021 Honda CR-V, Passport, and Odyssey have each received a “Best Car for the Money” award from U.S. News & World Report in the magazine’s latest new car rankings. If you’re looking at the headline above and wondering how SUVs qualify to be classified as cars, allow us to point out that…
Honda tends to clean up once it enters awards season, and this year is proving to be no exception. Today the Japanese automaker was managed to have three vehicles featured on the 2017 Best Cars for the Money list published by US News & World Report. The 2017 Honda CR-V, HR-V, and Fit were the…
Did you know that Honda moved 357,335 units of its CR-V crossover in the United States last year? Well, if you answered no, then you’re probably not the only person who wasn’t aware, but what’s even more surprising is that Honda decided to completely redesign the CR-V from the ground up despite those strong sales….
The 2018 Honda Odyssey and CR-V are continuing to pile on the… The 2018 Honda CR-V is a family-friendly compact crossover and the best-selling… Four Honda vehicles were named in U.S. News & World Report’s 2018… If Honda had an astrological sign, its horoscope would read “Today, you… Honda and awards. Name a more iconic…
The IIHS has named the 2015 Honda CR-V a Top Safety Pick+ The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has awarded the 2015 Honda CR-V a Top Safety Pick+ rating. That distinction applies to models equipped with the optional front crash prevention system, which earned a top rating of superior. When tested, the latest version of…
Photo: Honda The prologue for the Prologue is almost over. The all-new, all-electric Honda SUV will arrive in dealerships in March with an EPA-estimated 296 miles of range, the highest standard range rating in the class. That’s a good start for the first Honda EV. But what else can we expect? Related: Why buy a…
“Stan Mikita’s Donuts” in the 1992 comedy Wayne’s World / Photo credit: NHL.com Honda is making the most of its title sponsorship of the 2017 NHL All-Star Game in Los Angeles this weekend, partnering with Sports Illustrated and Entertainment Weekly to open up a pop-up café, “Stan Mikita’s All-Star Café Presented by Honda.” The temporary coffee…
Photo: Honda Honda has taken the wraps off the all-new CR-V e:FCEV, the first plug-in hydrogen vehicle in America. Developed jointly with General Motors, it will launch as a 2025 model with 29 miles of EV range and 270 miles of zero-emission hydrogen range. Similarly to Toyota, Honda has committed itself to a zero-emission vehicle…
Photo: Honda When the 2021 Honda Civic Type R Limited Edition went up on Honda Canada’s website as being available to order, all 100 units allocated to that region were snapped up in a measly four minutes — before any of the buyers even knew what the car would cost. The same thing happened in…
Honda Europe announced today that the Honda Civic WTCC car will sport an all-new look at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, which will run from June 23rd through the 26th. Honda has partnered with the Jean Graton Foundation to create the distinctive design. One of only four WTCC machines carrying a one-off artist livery,…
Honda took the 2019 Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards by storm once again, earning six category awards this time around. For the fifth consecutive time, the Civic topped the Compact Car category, maintaining an unbroken streak since the Best Buy Awards were launched in 2015. KBB noted the car’s affordable price, fuel-efficient engine, low…
Photo: Honda The world is finally getting its first look at the 11th generation Honda Civic. Unfortunately, Honda deigned to provide only a single photo — we’ll have to wait till April 28 to get a full gallery along with the car’s technical specifications. Civic Vs Corolla: How do the two bestselling sedans compare? Nonetheless,…
Honda’s United States division has reported total September 2017 sales for its cars and trucks, which were up 7.4% combined on sales of 129,776 units compared to last year. Cars and trucks both set new September records, with cars up 14.5% on sales of 69,407 units and trucks up 0.2% on sales of 60,369 units….
Joey Thompson is a comedian who has the good fortune of looking like Ryan Gosling. So for the past four years, he’s been starring in a series of comedic YouTube videos that are based on his uncanny resemblance to the hunky matinee idol—videos like 2012’s tutorial “How to Look Like Ryan Gosling,” its sequel “How…
Photo: Honda Six Honda cars have so far earned a Top Safety Pick rating or better from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, establishing them as among the safest cars on the roads today. Three of the six earned the basic TPS rating. These were the Civic hatchback, Civic sedan, and CR-V SUV. Three others…
Photo: Honda The new Honda Civic Type R was unveiled earlier this month at the Tokyo Auto Salon, bringing with it a host of changes and improvements that not only make the car faster but also make it more enjoyable and convenient to drive even when you’re not beating Nürburgring records. Oftentimes, the main limitation…
Between the sedan, coupe, hatchback, Si, and Type R, the Honda Civic already has enough variants to satisfy most customers. But now Honda has gone one step further and done the unthinkable by converting the Civic Type R hot hatch into a pickup truck. Displayed at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) annual…
Photo: ©Honda Honda models swept the Kelley Blue Book’s annual “Best Buy” competition, topping six of the 12 automotive categories featured: Small Car: 2018 Honda Civic Mid-Size Car: 2018 Honda Accord Electric/Hybrid Car: 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid Small SUV/Crossover: 2018 Honda CR-V Midsize SUV/Crossover: 2018 Honda Pilot Minivan: 2018 Honda Odyssey Additionally, the all-new…
It’s a good time to be the 2018 Honda Accord. Having been last week named the “Overall Best Buy” of 2018 in Kelley Blue Book’s annual competition, the all-new model was once again recognized by the publication with the 2018 Kelley Blue Book Best Auto Tech Award. According to KBB.com, technology has in recent years…
While Honda historically performs well in the awards, its 2024 showing is genuinely remarkable… Whenever the COVID-19 pandemic passes and it’s okay to go out and… Honda kicked off the year with a truly staggering number of awards,… The 2018 Honda Accord and Ridgeline have both been named J.D. Power… What makes a car cool?…
Photo: Honda Honda left Formula 1 at the end of the 2021 season right as it finally found success, having powered Max Verstappen to the drivers’ world championship title. Had it stayed around, the Japanese manufacturer would have enjoyed even more success, as both Red Bull Racing and Verstappen are running away with the 2022…
The 2018 Honda CR-V, the best-selling SUV in the United States for the past 20 years, has finally arrived in showrooms around the country with a starting Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $24,150 for the base LX, front-wheel drive trim and $34,050 for the top-of-the-line, all-wheel-drive Touring. That represents a $105 price bump over…
Urban SUV Concept Slated for U.S. Production, Likely Named Honda HR-V Last year at the Detroit Auto Show, Honda unveiled the Urban SUV concept, a Fit-based crossover that sits below the CR-V in both size and price. More recently, the Japanese production version was uncovered at the 2014 Tokyo Motor Show and bore the name…
The All-New Honda XR-V Honda has started launching new cars in China to compete with General Motors, which currently sells 40 models in the country. Honda’s latest offering is the Honda XR-V compact SUV crossover, which was unveiled at the Chengdu Motor Show. It’s really just a Chinese version of the Japanese Honda Vezel, which…
The 2017 Honda HR-V We’re starting to get into awards season, and Honda looks to be a major contender, with several popular new models out this year that are already beginning to garner attention. Today, in fact, Honda racked up three 2017 Consumer Guide Automotive Best Buy Awards. The all-new 2017 Ridgeline was recognized as…
While cars suffered throughout the month, Honda’s July 2018 truck sales were up more than eight percent, putting the automaker on track to sell more light trucks than passenger cars for the first time in its history. Because there was one less sales weekend in July, Honda’s overall monthly sales dipped a little, but customers…
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Photo: ©Honda Another month, another slew of Honda awards. The automaker just can’t seem to stop. After Honda swept the Kelley Blue Book “Best Buy” awards, five of its models have won in their category in the 2018 Consumer Guide Automotive Best Buy Awards. Each year, Consumer Guide Automotive editors evaluate hundreds of vehicles to…
A new teaser image for the 2016 Acura ILX. The Honda HR-V and Acura ILX will both debut next month. Honda announced today that the new Honda HR-V and Acura ILX would both be premiering next month at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. To whet car buyers’ appetites, the company also released an image…
Photo: Maurizio Pesce Thirteen global industry leaders have joined together to form a new “Hydrogen Council” that will invest more than €1.4 billion ($1.5b) per year in hydrogen energy solutions and technologies. The council is comprised of Air Liquide, Alstom, Anglo American, BMW GROUP, Daimler, ENGIE, Honda, Hyundai Motor, Kawasaki, Royal Dutch Shell, The Linde…
Honda is already working on a refreshed version of the Civic Type R — you know, the hot hatchback that was launched in the United States not two years ago? — and it’s already been spotted doing hot laps around the Nürburgring, because when your main appeal is being the fastest hatchback around, well, hitting…
Photo: Honda The Honda Civic Type R has widely been praised as one of the best performance cars you can buy today, regardless of the size of your purse. This week, Honda revealed it made the car even better. The 2020 Civic Type R not only comes with a facelift but also with a new,…
The Formula One season is returning to France this year, but Honda has already beaten its F1 team by sending the Civic Type R to the Magny-Cours Grand Prix circuit, where the hot hatch set a new lap record for front-wheel-drive production cars. With road legal tires and World Touring Car Cup driver Esteban Guerrieri…
A shark, a dolphin, and Lisa uncover treasure in “Storytime with the Accord” episode two Back in December, Honda launched a free app for customers called Honda Road Readers, which allowed families to listen to children’s audiobooks in the car together. In keeping with the theme of kids and the power of storytelling, the automaker…
Just over a month ago, Honda announced its intent to break the front-wheel-drive (FWD) production record at several of the greatest European circuits with the Civic Type R. It already set the Nürburgring Nordschleife record in 2017 and started the 2018 run with France’s former F1 circuit in Magny-Cours. Now it has set a new…
Honda Jazz Honda’s sales in Europe through the first six months of the year were strong enough to earn it the title of the continent’s fastest-growing mainstream car brand. In the first half of 2016, Honda delivered a total of 88,242 vehicles to customers across Europe, reflecting a 33.5% year-over-year increase from sales through June…
It’s finally time for the 10th-generation Honda Civic to get a makeover. For the 2019 model year, the compact Civic Sedan and Civic Coupe have been visually restyled from front to back for even higher curb appeal. The front bumper and apron, upper and lower grilles, headlights and even wheels have all gotten a touch-up….
With 388,374 units sold in 2014, the Honda Accord led the way for last year’s Honda sales record 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…
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