Photo: Heimo Ruschitz Dr. Helmut Marko, advisor to Red Bull Racing, says that the Formula One team can fight for the title in 2019, contradicting Team Principal Christian Horner’s previous claims that 2019 would be an “interim” year. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen put on a great performance to finish second from 18th at the 2018…
On the ground, Honda is well known for building safe cars, all of which definitely have seatbelts. And while its line of private aircrafts also have seatbelts, they had always been relegated to regular seats…until now. The new HondaJet Elite has a 1,437 nautical mile range, and that means you’re probably going to need to…
The European Honda Civic Type R prepares for lift-off Honda wasn’t kidding around when it called 2015 the “Year of Honda” back in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The Japanese automaker just celebrated its biggest year of product launches with the release of a new video entitled “Honda Ignition,” which…
Photo: Honda Whenever the COVID-19 pandemic passes and it’s okay to go out and buy a car again, you should take a look at the 2020 Honda CR-V Hybrid, as it has just been named the “Best New Car for 2020” by Autotrader. Launched at the start of the month, the CR-V Hybrid is Honda’s…
Outgoing Honda CEO Takanobu Ito Amid a series of recalls in Japan, Honda president and CEO Takanobu Ito took the first steps toward automotive seppuku when he accepted a voluntary pay cut for his transgressions back in October 2014. Now his long, ritualistic suicide is complete, as Honda announced today that Ito will be stepping…
Honda Accord Hybrid (Photo: Automotive Rhythms) Honda has recently announced that when the new Accord Hybrid hits the market, it will return an average of 49 miles per gallon in the city and 45 miles per gallon on the highway. This midsize sedan will be the most efficient in its class as the Accord Hybrid’s…
“That’ll do, Fit. That’ll do.” – The 2015 Honda Fit, seen here in one of those inescapable TV spots, was named the Yahoo Autos Value Car of the Year Although the Volkswagen Golf GTI took home the title of Best Car of the Year, it was the 2015 Honda Fit that had the distinction of…
2005 Honda S2000 – Image by RichN Fans of Honda-powered sports cars may remember that a long nine-year wait separated the original Acura NSX and the Honda S2000. Fortunately, the wait won’t be nearly as long this time around. According to Auto Express, the next Honda S2000 will come relatively shortly after the new and upcoming…
Photo: Joe McGowan Despite planning an all-new Formula One engine for 2019 and making promises to close the gap to Ferrari and Mercedes, Renault is looking over its shoulder at Honda with concern. One of the big talking points of the late 2018 season has been the rapidly improving performance of the Honda engine, which…
It’s getting increasingly difficult to earn the IIHS’s Top Safety Pick+ award, the most coveted safety recognition in the automotive industry, but the all-new 2019 Honda Insight managed it with remarkable ease, acing every test the institute threw at it. To qualify for the award, a vehicle must earn the highest possible rating of “good”…
Get ready to get Fit! No, we’re not talking about your abandoned New Year’s Resolution to cut the calories and get in the gym four days a week (hey, you remember that?). We’re talking about the impending release of the 2015 Honda Fit, which is scheduled to being arriving at dealerships across the country within…
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…
Subaru has a signature advertising strategy, and it involves putting really cute dogs in all of its commercials. In the past, the brand has given us a series of videos about a family of driving dogs, a folksy Outback ad about a woman dreaming of riding the rails with her dog, and perhaps the automaker’s…
Today COSI announced its next exhibition, “Meet the Innovators,” opening on December 11, 2016. The exhibition represents a joint effort between COSI, a science museum and research center in Columbus, and associates from Honda, which bases its headquarters in central Ohio. The engineering-focused mobility exhibit was developed as part of an exploratory partnership between COSI, Honda,…
Extreme Speed Motorsports will run the Honda HPD coupe in 2015 Honda Performance Development (HPD) has announced that it has sold two new HPD ARX-04b Honda coupes to the Extreme Speed Motorsports team to compete in its bold 2015 racing program. The ARX-04b is already fully compliant with the latest ACO LMP2 regulations and safety…
The 2015 Honda Fit American Honda Motor Co. has reported March 2015 sales figures, with a total of 126,293 Honda and Acura automobiles sold last month. Honda vehicles accounted for 111,623 of those sales, representing a 5.2% decrease in comparison to March of last year. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom for Honda, as…
2018 Honda Ridgeline RTL-E in Deep Scarlet Pear For the second year running, the Honda Ridgeline has been named to the Car and Driver magazine list of the 10Best Trucks and SUVs, taking victory in the midsize pickup category and further establishing Honda as the most-awarded automaker of 2018 (in the last week alone, Honda…
Just weeks after its debut at SEMA, the Honda Ridgeline Baja Race Truck has completed its first-ever Baja 1000 race. Driven by the trio of Jeff Proctor, Sage Marie, and Jason LaFortune, the off-road racing truck notched a Class 2 victory at this weekend’s 48th running of the SCORE Baja 1000. This year’s brutal Baja…
The 2016 Honda Pilot debuting at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show Today Honda released pricing and fuel efficiency details for the 2016 Pilot, with the base model starting at $29,995. The Pilot LX with 2WD and a 6-speed automatic transmission will carry an EPA estimated fuel efficiency slash line of 19/27/22 city/highway/combined mpg. With destination…
Honda just released three new commercials promoting its SUV lineup. Each ad is narrated by brand spokesman/Wonder Years child star Fred Savage, and each highlights a different aspect of the vehicles’ available safety capabilities. The first, entitled “Wolves,” does a nice job of highlighting the 2016 Honda CR-V, HR-V, and Pilot’s available AWD—which in the…
Honda has announced that it will be serving as the exclusive automotive partner of the HGTV Dream Home 2017 Giveaway. The lavish prize package will include a Honda Pilot Elite, along with a spectacular new home on St. Simons Island, Georgia, and a cash prize of $250,000 from mortgage lender Quicken Loans. Contestants can enter…
Honda Manufacturing of Alabama associates gather around the 2017 Honda Ridgeline Today Honda announced a forthcoming $85 million investment in the Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HMA) plant located in Lincoln, Alabama. In a statement, the Japanese automaker asserted that the money would fund the first of a multi-phase project meant to improve the facility’s vehicle…
Photo: Honda Honda announced it has once more extended the production suspension at all of its automobile, engine, and transmission plants across the United States and Canada. Production will remain suspended through May 1. Honda began its automobile production suspension on March 23 and has since extended it again twice. Interestingly, the automaker only mentioned…
Recently, longtime rivals Ford and General Motors put aside their differences and teamed up to create a 10-speed automatic transmission for their high-horsepower vehicles. GM first debuted the 10-speed gearbox in the automaker’s 2017 Chevy Camaro ZL1, and announced plans to offer the transmission in seven other vehicles by 2018, while Ford will first feature…
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Honda introduced a very sci-fi looking mini-vehicle dubbed the NeuV (pronounced “new-v”), or “New Electric Urban Vehicle.” The autonomous concept car is based on the fact that most people’s cars sit idle 96% of the time. The NeuV would eliminate that inefficiency and provide customers with…
Photo: Honda Max Verstappen, the young Dutch racing driver, is convinced that Honda is now close to matching Mercedes on engine power as Formula One heads into the winter break. When Red Bull Racing chose to switch from Renault to Honda power for the 2019 season, many questioned whether the move would pay off. But…
Photo: Honda To the surprise of just about no one, the 2019 Honda Clarity Series has been voted as the best eco-friendly vehicle in MotorWeek’s annual Drivers’ Choice Awards, whose winners are chosen based on buyer perspective and characteristics like fuel efficiency, practicality, performance, and price. According to MotorWeek, these are the vehicles that they…
The Honda Clarity series, which includes the 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid, 2017 Clarity Electric, and 2017 Clarity Fuel Cell, received the coveted 2018 Car of the Year award by Green Car Journal at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. Ron Cogan, editor and publisher of the Green Car Journal, said that choosing the Clarity…
Central Ohio STEM students watch the Honda Robotics demo in Marysville The groundwork continues to be laid for the inevitable robotic uprising, in which humans will find themselves subjugated and ruled by machines with Artificial Intelligence. First the humanoid Honda ASIMO seized control of major cities, then he met with the world leaders he intends…
City Year students pose with Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot at a recent STEM education event The Honda ASIMO humanoid robot was greeted as a rock star by a group of middle school students who had come to the Honda Silicon Valley Lab in California for a special demonstration. Though ASIMO is eventually meant to serve…
2022 Acura MDX Advance Though it was clear the automotive industry was quickly bouncing back to pre-COVID shutdown levels of sales, we didn’t think it would take less than a year for manufacturers to set new records. And, yet, American Honda and Acura have reported a new March record for total vehicle sales, with nearly…
The 2018 Honda Accord and Ridgeline have both been named J.D. Power & Associates “2018 APEAL Award” winners in the organization’s latest study, which ranks vehicles based on owners’ emotional attachment and level of excitement toward their car. APEAL stands for “Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout,” and to measure that aforementioned and vague quality, J.D….
Did you think the Honda awards train had stopped? Think again! The Honda Accord, Civic, and CR-V have each earned 2018 Edmunds Best Retained Value Awards, meaning that they were found to have the highest residual value after five years of ownership of any vehicle within their respective categories. “Whether you buy or lease, understanding…
Photo: Honda With a shutdown lasting from the end of March to early May, 2020 was a difficult year for every car manufacturer. But sales had rebounded by the fall season, and by the end of the year, brands like Honda had managed to recuperate some of their losses. The Japanese automaker reports that in…
Don’t let this boring promo shot fool you: the 2015 Honda Accord Coupe and Sedan are BOSS You may not have known this yesterday, but today, August 20, marks a momentous occasion that will resonate forever in the annals of history. A single moment of such undeniable significance that, even decades removed, you will be…
Photo: emperornie Red Bull Racing made a bold decision when it announced it would end its 12-year partnership with Renault and switch to Honda engines for the 2019 Formula One season, but Honda is keen on ensuring the four-time championship-winning team does not regret it. According to Honda motorsport chief Masashi Yamamoto, the manufacturer is…
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