Honda has used this weekend’s Busan Auto Show in South Korea to debut its facelifted flagship Legend sedan, which arrives exactly two months after the debut of its sister model, the 2009 Acura RL, back at February’s Chicago Auto Show. Like its Acura sibling, the new Honda sedan is just a mild refresh […]
The chief executive of Honda’s F1 team, Nick Fry, has offered to open talks with Danica Patrick about a test drive in the near future.
The 26-year-old American said late last month she was “dead set” on eventually joining the grand prix circus, following her recent breakthrough win in the IndyCar series.
“We haven’t instigated anything, […]
Honda’s NSX replacement has had several false starts, with the company scrapping the car’s design after the public’s largely negative response to its Acura Advanced Sports Car Concept, shown at 2007’s Detroit Auto Show. Beyond the styling difficulties, ensuring the car will compete successfully with Lexus’s LF-A, Nissan’s GT-R, and Ferrari and Lamborghini’s […]
While Ford is being praised for posting its surprise $100 million first quarter profit, its Mazda subsidiary has shocked just as many analysts with a record profit of $1.55 billion for 2007 – up 2% on 2006’s record level. The jump in profit was on the back of a 7% jump in revenues and a […]
Starting this week, Japanese drivers using Honda’s on-board navigation system will receive new alerts advising them when they drive near crime-ridden areas. The system uses information gained from local police to rate districts by risk level and advise drivers about places where cars have recently been stolen, broken into or even damaged.
The system is just […]
Honda has given us the first taste of its new budget brand with the unveiling of an unnamed hatchback concept at this weekend’s Beijing Motor Show. The new brand is designed along the lines of Toyota’s Scion sub-brand and will be testing the waters in emerging markets such as China and India before launching in […]
We were treated to a preview of the next-generation Honda Pilot at this year’s Detroit auto show, and now that the official production variant has been released, we see how accurate a preview it was. Honda’s newest mid-size crossover SUV focuses on building its already strong reputation for efficiency, comfort and quality while […]
Only a month after the official reveal of the new Accord Euro (Acura TSX) Honda has unveiled a new Sport Pack designed for both the sedan and Tourer wagon models. The new kit includes custom bumpers front and rear, a set of sporty side sills, a blacked-out grille, a discrete bootlid spoiler, integrated […]
Honda F1 star Jenson Button takes a Civic Type R around the famed German widow-maker, the Nurburgring, and just to make things a bit more interesting he does it while its raining and answering questions from an interviewer. Even for a man used to the fast pace of F1, the ride around the ‘ring is, […]
Although the most recent Fit was a smashing success in the U.S., the car the rest of the world knows as the Jazz was not really all that new - but the 2009 Honda Fit fixes that with a full complement of upgrades, inside and out. In the hotly contested sub-compact market, standout […]
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Acura revealed the new 2009 TSX at the New York Auto Show this morning, and with it the full gamut of high-res photography. The second-generation 2009 TSX is larger, more agile, better equipped and more performance minded than the model it replaces. It does so with expanded luxury […]
Ten years ago the world was rich in Japanese sports cars. Skip forward today and the true Japanese sports car has become a rarity, with the Nissan GT-R being the most noteworthy example of late. Japanese automotive powerhouses Toyota and Honda have both been found lacking in this area, Honda having had no […]
Honda wants to reassert itself as a technology leader and a green company by launching several different hybrid models over the next couple of years and setting itself a goal of selling 400,000 hybrids per year in five years’ time. This would be quite an achievement for Honda, which sold just 55,300 hybrids […]
Honda CEO Takeo Fukui has stated unequivocally that there is no recession in the US auto industry. Just days ago Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn told journalists in Seoul that the US automobile industry is in recession, and high material costs were a major factor. The differing opinions between Honda and Nissan may be because of […]
Tata’s groundbreaking Nano minicar has garnered much of the world’s attention because of its extremely low price tag (just $2,500), but it also managed to capture the attention of a number of mainstream carmakers who hope to use it as a model to develop ultra-cheap cars of their own. Some carmakers, however, won’t be competing […]