Honda motorsport boss Masashi Yamamoto says the company is making a big effort to catch the frontrunners ahead of the 2019 Formula One season, and that it aims to have the third-best engine in the sport by the time the lights go out at the Australian Grand Prix in March. Third-best doesn’t sound like much…
The Honda Civic Type R recently went an impressive five-for-five on its tour of historic European tracks, setting a new record lap time for FWD models at each circuit. The hot hatch set new benchmarks for front-wheel-drive production cars at Silverstone, Spa-Francorchamps, Monza, Estoril, and Hungaroring. Back in May of 2014, the Civic Type R…
While Bugatti and Koenigsegg battle over making their production cars get closer and closer to the 300 mph barrier, Honda is busy laying claim to another record: that of the fastest lawn mower. It’s a record that Honda held for only a year. In 2014, the automaker built the hilariously-named “Mean Mower,” a lawn mower…
The star of Honda’s Fred Savage voice-over training videos, as he looked in 1989 Photo credit: Alan Light, CC Last month, former childhood star and current television director Fred Savage was announced as the new voice of Honda. But since Savage has had no formal experience narrating things (that was Daniel Stern who voiced grown-up…
Eddie Caldwell is the first to be featured in the “What Makes a Honda is Who Makes a Honda” video series. Honda employs more than 30,000 hardworking associates in North America, many of whom are as dedicated to their communities as they are to their jobs. To highlight their ongoing dedication to the communities in…
Red Bull Racing hopes Honda will be able to maintain the same rate of progress it showed with Scuderia Toro Rosso throughout the 2018 Formula One season, but Renault’s former engine partner doubts this is possible. Cyril Abiteboul, the Renault managing director who famously doesn’t get along with Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, believes…
The all-new 2018 Honda Fit Sport trim Honda has yet to reveal a release date or price for the refreshed 2018 Honda Fit, but the Japanese automaker did confirm that the upcoming hatchback will feature a new Sport trim, among other enhancements. For the 2018 model year brings, Honda has made significant updates to the…
Photo: Honda Honda is planning to introduce an extra engine upgrade for the 2019 Formula One season that will target an improved qualifying mode. The manufacturer finally clinched its first win at the Austrian GP this year after a 13-year draught and a difficult road through the new hybrid engine regulations. It came as a…
Photo: Honda The 2019 Honda Accord and 2019 Honda Odyssey have topped the midsize car and minivan categories, respectively, in Edmunds’ 2019 Retained Value Awards. This is the second time in a row the Accord has been featured, and the seventh time the Odyssey has taken top honors in the eight years the awards have…
Photo: Honda About a year and a half ago, Honda unveiled a delightfully futuristic retro urban EV concept that, after its warm reception at the Frankfurt Auto Show, seemed to have disappeared. We assumed, as with most concepts, that it would never see the light of day. As it turns out, that was wrong. Now…
The Red Bull Racing Formula One team has two major decisions to make very soon: to switch to Honda engines or stay with Renault, and whether to negotiate a new contract with Daniel Ricciardo. Both have been the subject of a lot of press and speculation, and both could significantly affect the future of the…
The fully-redesigned 2016 Honda Pilot is now in dealerships, carrying with it a starting manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $29,995, not including the $880 destination charge. The newest model of the third-generation Pilot offers a lot of changes, including a new and improved powertrain and fresh safety and technology features. [wptab name=”What’s New”] What’s New…
Each year, Consumer Guide puts out its Best Buys in a number of categories, including Automotives. To do so, the editors test drive over 150 new vehicles, review them, compare them, and pick out the top choices as the guide’s Best Buys in each category, ranging from Subcompact Cars to Sporty/Performance Cars to Large Pickup…
Honda vehicles have been around for decades and are firm favorites with American drivers. You can probably pick out a recent Accord or CR-V on the road, but how much do you know about classic Honda models? [wptab name=”Z600″] The 1970 Honda Z600 Photo: CH’7K, Flickr 1970 Honda Z600 The Honda Z600 was a quirky-looking…
The 2018 Honda Clarity Series has earned the 2018 California Air Quality Award for Corporate Environmental Stewardship by the Coalition for Clean Air, a non-profit organization that aims to promote clean and healthy air in California as well as advance technologies, laws, and environmental practices to that end. The Honda Clarity Series is a lineup…
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