Franz Tost, team principal for the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team, says that Honda has come a long way in terms of reliability and have “exceed expectations” with the quality of its engines. Toro Rosso partnered with Honda after the 2017 season, at which point Honda had come under massive fire from McLaren for…
The explosion of ridesharing apps like Lyft and Uber has largely replaced the need for designated drivers, making it easier and safer than ever for sad sacks to drink alone. Inversely, the rise of smartphone technology has also made sober driving more dangerous, as people find themselves tempted to send text messages while they’re supposed…
Will Red Bull Racing choose Honda or Renault as its engine supplier for the 2019 Formula One championship? It’s the question that’s on everyone’s lips this summer, but according to the Missed Apex Podcast, Red Bull may have already signed with Honda several weeks ago. Though the team had claimed it would use the Canadian…
The 2016 Honda Civic on display at the Chicago Auto Show For the fifth time, Honda has been named the automotive industry’s “Best Value Brand” in Kelley Blue Book’s 2016 Brand Image Study. The award is based on responses from non-luxury new car shoppers. “This Best Value Brand award from KBB validates the efforts of…
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…
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