Honda News

One of the more interesting vehicles Honda brought to this week’s 2011 Tokyo Motor Show was the EV-STER Concept, a vision of the automaker’s electric sports car of the future. Being all-electric, the concept was designed to maximize the fun of driving while being completely eco-friendly...

Not to be outdone by its fellow carmakers at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show that opened Wednesday, Honda is putting its faith in three high-tech features in its future models. Demonstrated with the Fit EV and SH-AWD test vehicles, Honda has shown a reinvention of regenerative braking, introduced a...

Honda has given its Insight Hybrid the four-door coupe treatment and has come away with the rather stylish and somewhat sporty Advanced Cruiser-X concept, or AC-X for short. The concept car, which made its debut this week at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, packs the latest version of the Honda’s...

Honda has used the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show to announce a range of environmentally friendly technologies it plans to roll out grouped under the new heading of “Earth Dreams Technology”. Similar to Mazda’s “SkyActiv” range of green technologies, Earth Dreams Technology is...

The small electric sports car concept from Honda we showed you earlier this month now has a name: 2011 Honda EV-STER Concept. The open-top concept, whose compact size evokes memories of the CRX, is Honda’s vision of the electric sports car of the future. Being all-electric, it’s...

As an alternative to Thanksgiving Day football games, we give you this time-lapse build of a Honda S2000 touring car.

Honda may return to the world of Formula 1 as an engine supplier according to latest reports coming out of Germany, and the first team it may sign a deal with is former partner McLaren, which it supplied engines to during the glory days of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. At present McLaren still...

At the Los Angeles Auto Show this afternoon, Honda officially pulled the wraps off a redesigned 2012 CR-V.

The 2012 Honda CR-V is now less than a week away from an official world debut at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, plus images of the new crossover have already surfaced online, however, our own exclusive spy shots reveal some never before seen details including a look at the vehicle’s rear...

With one of the densest populations in the entire world, it’s no surprise that Tokyo’s foremost automotive event is a place where the tiny urban commuter vehicle is a star. First Nissan, then Suzuki, and just yesterday Mitsubishi, all presented their visions for the city car of the...

The 2011 Tokyo Motor Show is still several weeks away but we’ve already got details on many of the new model and concept debuts planned by the major Japanese automakers. The latest to announce its wares is Honda, which like many of its rivals has adopted an electric theme for most of its...

The latest iteration of the Honda Civic Si has underwhelmed critics, including our own reviewers at TheCarConnection, but Honda isn't letting the lukewarm reception get in the way of heating things up a bit. Today at the 2011 SEMA show, the company unveiled the Honda Factory Peformance (HFP)...

Honda hasn't exactly kept it a secret that it will unveil the new 2012 CR-V at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show in a few weeks. But apparently showing a thinly-veiled concept version of the new CR-V wasn't enough, as the Japanese automaker has published photos of the JDM version of the 2012 CR-V on...

Last month a mysterious Acura concept sporting a similar shape to the mid-engine Audi R8 supercar was spotted on the set of the upcoming The Avengers movie. In the movie, the Acura concept will serve as the personal ride of Robert Downey Jr.’s character Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man. You may...

Hydrogen fuel cells for automotive use are one of those "great in theory, flawed in principal" ideas for the future of car propulsion. New technology using bacteria could eventually change that. Fuel cells have several advantages over pure battery-electric power, for example. Firstly, hydrogen has...

Just in case the 237 horsepower Civic Type R built by Mugen in 2010 wasn't powerful enough, the company has announced a 256 horsepower version. The catch? It's only available in the U.K..

While the Toyota Prius is racking up record sales and is soon to be joined by a plug-in hybrid variant and new Prius V MPV, Honda’s Insight battles on without so much as a whisper. However, a facelifted version is planned and is set to be revealed at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show in less than...

It reads more like a 1950s space race vision of the future than a pragmatic 21st Century theory, but we could now be a step closer to driving a nuclear-powered car. In light of the recent events in Japan following the tsunami that caused meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, and previous events...

If you're trusting your teenage son or daughter with the car for the night it's nice to know that their journey has gone safely - or that they're actually going where they said they would. For that extra piece of mind GM is testing a new OnStar service called 'Family Link' that allows subscribers...

The 2012 Honda CR-V is expected to make its official world debut this November at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show before going on sale shortly after.