When Skeletor stands by the quality of your product, not even Honda air bag recalls can dissuade customers The recent Honda air bag recalls certainly seem like bad press for the Japanese automaker, but so far, they haven’t had a particularly negative impact on sales. The recall of about 5 million early 2000s Honda vehicles…
Folks, it’s the end of an era. Remember back in December when reports starting rolling in saying that Honda was planning on dropping the ax on the Insight? Well, we now know for certain that the Honda Insight has reached the end of its road. Honda Insight production will come to a screeching halt this…
Photo: JD Hancock via CC Today, Honda surprised many by reporting a 20% increase in fiscal first quarter profits. Apparently, the costs of the Japanese automaker’s airbag recall were offset by the benefits of a cheap yen. Honda’s April-June net profit was 186 billion yen ($1.5 billion USD), representing a 155.6 billion yen year-over-year increase….
Issues with the 2005-2010 Honda Odyssey fuel strainer occurring when the strainer is exposed to acidic chemicals, like those in a car wash, have caused Honda to recall over 800,000 of these minivans. Pictured: 2014 Odyssey, not in recall This just in: every car ever made anywhere has been recalled for safety issues. Okay, not…
Before officially unveiling the new STR13 to the public on Monday, Toro Rosso took its new 2018 Formula One car for a shakedown session at the wet Misano circuit in Italy. A spy photographer managed to snap a picture of the car and uploaded it to the internet, which prompted Toro Rosso to follow up…
Max Verstappen has extended his contract with the Red Bull Racing team for an additional three years. Reportedly, he also managed to push his salary into the range of $25-35 million per year—a massive sum for a driver with only three wins under his belt. One of the major unknowns in the future of Formula…
Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly finished fourth at last weekend’s Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix, giving Honda its best-ever result as an engine manufacturer since it returned to the sport in 2015, and Toro Rosso its joint second best-ever result. On his cooldown lap after the checkered flag, Gasly celebrated the fourth-place finish and thanked…
2017 Honda Pilot Elite Honda has announced that the 2017 Honda Pilot will become the latest vehicle in its lineup to receive Apple CarPlay and Android Auto functionality. Additional updates for the 2017 model year include a fingerprint-resistant touchscreen and additional interior color options. Also New from Honda: 2017 Civic Hatchback makes its way to…
Chicago meets the 2016 Honda Pilot at its glitzy debut Photo: Honda via YouTube “The Year of Honda” continues at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show. As one of the first brands to present this week in the Windy City, Honda has debuted its highly-anticipated, redesigned eight-seater: the 2016 Pilot SUV. The automaker intends to bring “new…
The Honda Ridgeline teaser sketch revealed at CAS Honda grabbed most of its headlines at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show by debuting the 2016 Pilot, but that’s not the only thing the automaker is revealing in the Windy City. A new sketch (above) of the next-gen Honda Ridgeline was also unveiled at the event. The automaker’s…
Dave’s Ridgeline is this brilliant red color. The all-new 2017 Honda Ridgeline scooped up one of the auto world’s most prestigious awards at the Detroit Auto Show this year, driving home with the North American Truck of the Year trophy. That’s all well and good, but how does it actually hold up against the competition?…
Last December, Honda announced the introduction of the Honda Road Readers app, which enables Honda owners to download free children’s audiobooks for family drives. Today the automaker released a video explaining how to use the Honda Road Readers app. As the video explains, Honda owners are able to download up to four free audiobooks per…
The recently revealed 2017 Honda Ridgeline has several selling points, but the automaker seems to be particularly proud of the vehicle’s industry-first in-bed audio system, which allows drivers to keep listening to music even after they have left the cabin. When the pickup debuted in Detroit last month, Honda pitched the built-in bed speakers as…
Manual cars are quickly becoming a dying breed in the United States, with more than 95% of all new cars sold equipped with an automatic transmission. Honda, however, recognizes the value of driving a manual and is seeking to share its knowledge with the world, perhaps in the hopes that people will buy one of…
Honda has apparently finished counting and just announced its North America production numbers for 2018, which added up to over 1.8 million automobiles made on the continent, including more than 1.2 million in the United States, representing a 2.7 percent increase over 2017. Honda also remarked that of the vehicles it sold in the United…
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