Officials at the 1965 Indy 500 prepared to test ride a fleet of Honda motorcycles As the most successful carmaker ever in number of Indy 500 wins, starts, and laps completed, Honda is more excited than most for the upcoming 100th running of the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” which will be held on Sunday, May…
2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid Honda filled out its Clarity lineup in New York today, debuting both the all-new Clarity Plug-in Hybrid and the Clarity Electric, which will soon join the already available Clarity Fuel Cell sedan on the automotive market. The automaker says that it is targeting US sales of 75,000 Clarity vehicles over…
Though gas prices have fallen, plenty of people would still rather pay up front to be eco-conscious than pay at the pump. Honda is banking on the alternative energy demographic to continuing to grow with the North American debut of the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell sedan yesterday at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show. The…
The [fecal matter] hits the fan when the Civic hits the Lincoln Last Thursday, a driver in Montreal, Canada, was cruising on Highway 20 when his dashcam captured dramatic video of a Honda Civic causing a Lincoln MKS taxi to dive headfirst into a five-car accident. “Driving on Montreal Highway when out of nowhere…” dashcam…
Photo: ©Honda Honda is celebrating the production of its 25th million vehicle in the United States—fittingly, a 2018 Honda Accord, which was named the North American Car of the Year at the 2018 Detroit Auto Show earlier this year. It was painted in obsidian blue pearl. The Accord was produced at the Marysville Auto Plant,…
Today the Honda Canada Foundation announced a $4 million charitable donation to the Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation, a hospital located near the Honda of Canada Manufacturing facilities and its more than 4,000 employees. The generous gift includes $1 million for the purchase of life-saving medical equipment, while the remaining $3 million will go to supporting…
Today Honda officially launched global production of its new 10-speed automatic transmission, which is being manufactured at the Honda Precision Parts of Georgia, LLC (HPPG) in Tallapoosa, Georgia. Honda also announced a $150 million investment in two US manufacturing plants to fund production of the industry-first 10-speed automatic transmission (10AT) for front-wheel-drive vehicles. Roughly $100…
Honda has announced that select vehicles built in 2015 will debut Android Auto™, which will integrate Android smartphone features into the vehicle’s in-dash display and allow access to various optimized apps and features for a more intuitive driving experience. “Honda’s goal is to integrate the power and functionality of today’s smartphones directly into our vehicles…
Honda continues to clean up during awards season, with two 2017 Honda vehicles being winners in Kelley Blue Book’s 2017 5-Year Cost to Own Awards. The Accord took home the top honors in the mid-size car category, with second and third place going to the 2017 Toyota Camry and Hyundai Sonata, respectively. The Accord earned…
While Honda cars are known for their reliability and longevity, they can also be powerful and exciting. Over the years, Hollywood has chosen numerous Honda cars to appear in movies, including the following four. Your Next Car: Meet the 2017 Honda Accord Sedan [wptab name=”Pulp Fiction (1994)”] Photo: Miramax Films 1980 Honda Civic from Pulp…
Suheb Haq of General Motors (left) and Tomomi Kosaka of Honda Last month, General Motors and Honda announced that they were joining forces to produce hydrogen fuel cells. Today, the automakers announced the executive structure for their new joint venture company, Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC (FCSM). GM’s Suheb Haq will serve as the first…
The 2017 Honda Pilot Elite Awards season continues to be kind to Honda. The Japanese automaker managed four spots on the Kelley Blue Book list of “Best Family Cars of 2017.” The experts at KBB.com found spots on their annual list for the 2017 Honda CR-V, HR-V, Pilot, and Odyssey. In making the selections of…
Photo: Osajus Brendon Hartley, WEC champion and Scuderia Toro Rosso’s new driver since the tail end of the 2017 Formula One season, thinks the McLaren team made a mistake in leaving Honda power for 2018. “I think they’ve made a mistake,” Hartley told Marca, a Spanish sports newspaper, on Monday. “The engine is very drivable,…
Ross Brawn, one of Formula One’s most successful team principals and currently the sport’s technical director, says that Red Bull must become an F1 championship contender again with its new Honda partnership. Red Bull enjoyed a four-year run of consecutive double world championships from 2010 to 2013. Its domination was swiftly put to an end…
Honda Accord Coupe History First introduced in 1987 for the 1988 model year, the Accord coupe was one of the many body styles the carmaker introduced for the popular Honda Accord. Since then, it has prevailed against all other Accord body styles, including a hatchback and a station wagon, becoming the only other option Honda…
The latest entry in Honda’s 12-part “What Makes a Honda is Who Makes a Honda” YouTube series follows Annie Boh, an aerospace engineer who specializes in aero acoustics at Honda R&D Americas in Marysville, Ohio. Her job, quite simply, is to make sure your Honda provides as quiet a ride as it possibly can. “We…
Today at Auto Shanghai 2017, Honda exhibited the world premiere of the CR-V Hybrid, the brand’s all-new SUV model for the Chinese market. The Honda CR-V Hybrid features a Honda Sport Hybrid i-MMD two-motor hybrid system, as well as a full complement of features that includes the Honda Sensing suite of safety technologies. The new model…
The Honda Civic has been named one of the best certified pre-owned cars of 2019 by Autotrader, which put together a list of the 10 must-shop CPO cars based on a number of valuable attributes. New cars just keeping getting more expensive, with even the most affordable models in a non-luxury automaker’s lineup starting at…
The 2015 Honda BR-V Concept The Gaikindo Indonesian International Auto Show 2015, which will run from August 20th to 30th in Tangerang, Indonesia, will serve as the venue for the 2015 Honda BR-V’s debut. What’s a BR-V, you might ask? The “Bold Runabout Vehicle,” a three-row crossover concept that’s meant to preview a seven-seat vehicle that…
Photo: Joe McGowen Pierre Gasly, one of the two Formula One drivers for Toro Rosso, says the Honda president cried when the racing team managed a 4th place finish at the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix. The French driver believes that positivity is the key to progress with the Japanese manufacturer, which has had a tough…
Red Bull Team Principal Christian Horner has said the team wants to compare the Honda and Renault engines at the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix, which will take place in two weeks. Though Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul had given Red Bull until the end of May to decide, that deadline seems mostly meaningless to its current…
The 2018 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, one of the three electrified vehicles that is part of the automaker’s award-winning Clarity series, has finally arrived at select Honda dealerships in California, giving drivers seeking green driving alternatives a full complement of choices. The Clarity Fuel Cell joins the Clarity Electric and Clarity Plug-in Hybrid to make…
The all-new, production version of the 2019 Honda Insight is making its official world debut tomorrow at the 2018 New York International Auto Show, where it will join the Clarity series and the 2018 Accord Hybrid as the fifth electrified vehicle in the Honda lineup. The Honda Insight is a premium, hybrid compact sedan positioned…
It seems that February will bring more of what we got in January: a new set of Honda awards every other day. After four of its models were named in U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 “Best Cars for the Money” awards earlier this week, another three models took home honors in MotorWeek’s “Drivers’ Choice…
Honda’s hydrogen-fueled Clarity Fuel Cell sedan will carry an introductory lease price of $369 a month for 36 months (plus tax) when it launches in California later this year. Leasing terms for the five-passenger, zero-emissions FCV will include a mileage allowance of 20,000 per year, up to $15,000 of hydrogen fuel, up to 21 days…
The redesigned Civic is spotted in Ann Arbor Photo: Civicx.com The all-new, 10th-generation 2016 Honda Civic Sedan is set for two big, simultaneous premieres in Detroit and Los Angeles next week. You can watch the LA reveal live on YouTube on Wednesday, September 16th at 6:15 pm PDT… or you can just look at these spy shots…
Freshman Olympian Katie of the Stanford University Swimming & Diving team has been named the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year, earning her the prestigious Honda Cup, which was presented during a live broadcast of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA) show. In its capacity as a presenting sponsor, Honda has supported women’s athletics programs…
At long last, the date has arrived—the first-ever American Type R is on sale today at Honda dealerships nationwide. The 2017 Honda Civic Type R is available in a single Touring trim with a (previously leaked) Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price of $33,900. The track-ready Type R is the final and most performance-oriented variant of the popular…
PT Honda Prospect Motor (HPM) celebrated its one million-unit automobile production milestone in a ceremony held at the Karawang Factory in Indonesia today. The ceremony’s distinguished guests included Director General of Metal, Machinery, Transportation Equipment, and Electronics, Mr. I Gusti Putu Suryawirawan, and other VIPs from the Indonesian government. Mr. Seiji Kuraishi, Executive Vice President…
American Honda Motor Company’s Honda Marine division has announced a new OEM agreement with BRIG USA, a manufacturer of foldable and rigid inflatable boats (RIBs). The 25-year-old Ukrainian company recently announced its entrance into the US market with two dealers located in Annapolis, Maryland, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For over 50 years, Honda Marine’s comprehensive…
Last night, the all-new, tenth-generation 2016 Honda Civic Sedan received simultaneous premieres in Detroit and Los Angeles. The latter event was available for live-streaming on YouTube Space LA at 6:15 pm PT (9:15 pm ET), right around the time much of America was watching Donald Trump awkwardly attempt to high-five Ben Carson. If you were…
Honda has announced that it will be recalling 9,816 2014 Honda Civic… One of the largest concerns that consumers have when it comes to… This past week, MotorWeek handed out the honors for their annual Drivers’… It was announced on Friday that Polk vehicle registration statistics spanning from… It’s all about the flash and sparkle…
Lordy, Lordy, look who’s forty: the Honda Accordy! That’s right, the Accord is officially over the hill. But Honda isn’t celebrating the popular midsize car’s birthday in the traditional way (which is to say, by giving it gag gifts like a walking cane or fake dentures). Instead, the automaker is paying homage to the vehicle’s…
This past week, the 2016 Honda Indy Toronto racing event raised a whopping $75,000 for Make-A-Wish Canada. Of the total raised, $30,000 of it came from the Ontario Honda Dealers Association (OHDA) and the Honda Canada Foundation (HCF), who matched contributions made by fans. The remaining $15,000 came from new partners Tim Hortons and Johnsonville…
After it was announced last year that Toro Rosso would switch from Renault to Honda engines for the 2018 Formula One season, the inevitable question followed: Will Red Bull, Toro Rosso’s parent team, do the same in 2019? Up until this point, Honda had been coy about whether it was negotiating with Red Bull, but…
This month over 20,000 volunteers participated in the second annual Team Honda Week of Service, “giving back” to their respective communities by engaging in several types of community support activities at charitable organizations across North America. From June 9th through the 18th, volunteers wearing red “Team Honda” shirts supported hundreds of organizations. Honda associates, dealership…
2018 Honda Accord Touring The Honda Accord is a favorite midsize car that doesn’t cease to amaze with its top-quality design, luxurious cabin, futuristic tech, and outstanding fuel economy. The 2018 model comes with some new tweaks that improve its practicality as well as its aesthetics. In this review, you’ll find information about its unique…
Scholarship recipient Xavier Leslie, studying mechanical engineering, is sure to spend some quality time in the historic Carnegie Library on the Alabama A&M University campus Photo: Chris Pruitt For the 2018-19 academic year, Honda, in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, has awarded scholarships to five students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Honda…
Smith, left, is a six-year associate with the Honda manufacturing plant in Ohio Being a foster parent is no small task, but Jessica Smith and her wife Melissa have opened up their home in Ohio to more than 30 children since 2015. Smith, an associate in the Parts Quality Department of Honda Transmission Manufacturing of…
The 2016 Honda Civic Sedan Touring trim Spy shots leaked a few days ago, but it wasn’t until last night that the all-new, tenth-generation 2016 Honda Civic Sedan received its formal unveiling. As expected, it looks sportier than Civics of days past… and bigger, too. Honda is bragging that the model’s new platform and package…
Associates at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama celebrate the start of production of the all-new 2018 Honda Odyssey. Today, over 1,500 associates at the Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HMA) plant in Lincoln celebrated the start of mass production of the 2018 Honda Odyssey minivan. The all-new model will launch nationwide this spring, with HMA acting as…
There’s still a few months left in “The Year of Honda,” and the Japanese automaker is looking to make the most of them. The company just announced its plans for next week’s Los Angeles Auto Show, which include the world premiere of the 2016 Civic Coupe and the North American debut of the all-new Honda…
The 2013 Honda Fit EV is the perfect mix of fun and practicality for your drive. Like its traditionally powered sibling, the 2013 Honda Fit EV brings a bit of character to the normally reserved Honda lineup. With its squared hatchback rear end and short, rounded front, it shares a lot of characteristics with the…
Jeff Tomko, president at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, speaks at the 33rd annual Honda Supplier Conference Last week at the 33rd annual Honda Supplier Conference, Honda recognized nearly 100 North American auto suppliers for achievements in supplying parts and materials to the Japanese manufacturer. The event, which was held May 4th through 5th in Birmingham,…
The new 2017 Honda Ridgeline pickup truck Today Honda released official EPA data and pricing figures for the newly redesigned 2017 Ridgeline, which starts at $29,475 and is priced as high as $42,870 for the top-level “Black Edition.” All Ridgeline models feature a direct-injected 3.5-liter i-VTEC V6 engine mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission, and…
2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Electric Hybrid Today Honda announced that 152 dealerships across Canada have committed to installing two level 2 electric chargers on-site by the end of the 2017. That number represents nearly two-thirds of the Japanese automaker’s dealer network in the Great White North, and shows the company’s commitment to the electrification of…
A custom, autographed 1D 2015 Honda Civic In the never-ending battle for the almighty Millennial dollar, car companies have started decorating their vehicles with the imagery of hot young pop stars, much like Steve Buscemi putting on a “Music Band” t-shirt in order to investigate the goings-on at a local high school. This weekend, Chevrolet…
Toyota previews a bold new Corolla concept for the 2025 Japan Mobility Show, featuring sharp lines, futuristic lighting, and a possible electric drivetrain—marking a major design and tech shift.
When the power goes out, could your electric car keep the lights on at home? The answer is yes — but only if it’s the right model. While most EVs have large batteries, only a few come equipped with the necessary hardware for vehicle-to-home (V2H) charging.
Toyota is moving forward with its long-promised leap into all-solid-state battery technology, setting its sights on 2027 for the release of its first electric vehicle powered by the next-generation system.
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