Honda News

Honda came to SEMA with a mission this year, bringing 17 vehicles in total. One of the absolute hottest Hondas on show is the Accord Coupe HF-S Concept, a high-performance take on one of Honda’s proven production cars. The car isn’t intended for production, unlike the Honda Accord Coupe...

Honda was one of the first carmakers to launch a hybrid vehicle with its original Insight compact but it quickly lost the limelight when Toyota’s much more practical Prius hit the market. Now Honda hopes to claim back the lead in fuel-efficient and alternative fuel vehicles with the launch of...

Honda has revealed the look of its Japan-spec S2000 Type S ahead of the car’s local launch at tomorrow’s Tokyo Motor Show. The car is essentially the same package as the U.S. delivered S2000 CR but differs by the inclusion of the standard folding roof instead of the aluminum hardtop as...

Honda will be promoting its new Accord Coupe at the upcoming SEMA Auto Show in Las Vegas by taking the covers off a new concept car based on the two-door. Called the Accord Coupe HF-S, the new concept was developed by Honda’s U.S. division as a way to present its new accessory range. A second...

Although this round of the hybrid wars has been soundly won by Toyota’s Prius, Honda knows the market will evolve. Accordingly, it is building two new hybrids to complete its line of electric-assisted cars. The sports car hybrid CR-Z (pictured), currently on display in Tokyo, is one of them...

One of the new concept cars Honda will unveil at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show is the CR-Z sports compact, a possible preview of a replacement for the popular Honda CRX. The official tagline for the concept is “a next-generation lightweight sports car equipped with a Honda petrol-electric...

Honda’s all-new Fit (Jazz) compact car has been revealed ahead of its world debut at next month’s Tokyo Motor Show and eventual sale early next year. The new model shares a striking resemblance to the one it will be replacing, including its angular headlights and tall roofline. The new...

Unlike most of the concepts being unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show today, Honda’s new Accord Tourer Concept actually gives us a glimpse of what to expect for a new production model. The face of the new Accord Tourer will be shared with the next-generation Accord Euro/TSX, due to hit the...

Honda is hoping to claw back much of the hybrid car market that it lost to Toyota and its segment leading Prius with an all new dedicated hybrid model of its own. Despite beating Toyota to the hybrid market with the launch of the Insight back in 1999, Honda has since seen most hybrid-buyers head...

Honda will present a new Accord wagon concept at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show, a new model that'll likely replace the current model pictured above. The Accord Tourer Concept gives an indication of the design direction for the next-gen Accord that’s expected to go on sale in Europe by the...

Honda CEO Takeo Fukui has confirmed that the next-generation NSX supercar won’t be shown at the Tokyo Auto Show in October. The development of the car continues with various NSX test mules recently caught running laps at the Nurburgring, but Honda won’t say when the new model will...

Honda’s alliance with China’s state-run Guangzhou Automobile Group will bear fruit to new models sold its own brand name. Currently, only Honda designed vehicles such as the Accord, Fit, Odyssey, and City models are built in the Chinese plants but this will change as more money is...

Honda is focusing on new diesel powertrains to improve its standings in the fuel-economy stakes, and the latest announcement is news that it’s planning a low-emission diesel V6 powerplant for the North American market for introduction in 2010. Last month, Honda announced that it would be...

Update: Honda admits meeting the pair behind the allegations. Click ahead to find out more. A third team is being dragged into the Ferrari-McLaren espionage affair - Honda. The German specialist publication Auto Motor und Sport now reports that, in addition to McLaren, disgruntled Ferrari veteran...

Honda is currently prepping a new performance version of the Civic sedan that’s set for release in the Japan this September. Based on the already sporty Type R, the new Honda Civic Mugen RR was transformed after undergoing a power upgrade and weight reduction program in collaboration with the...

Honda has announced that it will launch a hydrogen fuel-cell sedan next year as well as a new high volume hybrid vehicle priced under its $25,000 Civic hybrid in 09. The announcement was made at yesterday’s demonstration of Honda’s FCX fuel-cell prototype in Washington, a four-door...

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has named Honda as the "Greenest Automaker" in the North American market, a title it has held now for four years straight. The UCS findings were based on the levels of carbon emissions of Honda’s fleet average, and the final figures found Honda to have...

Honda has unveiled the S2000 CR concept, essentially a last-hurrah for the venerable roadster before production ends and Honda releases a replacement. The latest racer-inspired version, which is described by Honda as “aggressively-tuned,” will go on sale in the second half of the year...

Honda will use next month’s New York Auto Show to display a ready-to-race version of its aging S2000 Roadster in a final last hurrah before the introduction of an all new model due towards the end of next year. The latest racer-inspired version, which is described by Honda as...

Honda’s flood of new concept models continues with its latest Small Hybrid Sports Concept unveiled today at the Geneva Motor Show. The concept represents Honda’s interpretation of how a future sports hybrid model might appear, and was designed at the Honda R&D Europe center based in...