Safety and the Hona CR-Z
Discover what has to be built into a car if it’s to have any hope of achieving a five-star safety rating.
Discover what has to be built into a car if it’s to have any hope of achieving a five-star safety rating.
In the first month Honda has sold 10 times the number of CR-Z cars that it expected to sell.
It’s not due here till late in the year but it’s already winning awards overseas.
Here in Australia Honda sales are diving while in other countries Honda’s winning awards
The latest in a long line of great Honda CR-Vs
Honda says that no Jazz model vehicles sold in Australia need to be recalled.
Small cars do tend to hold their value … at least for the first couple of years.
What’s the best used SUV you can buy? The Poms think that it’s a Honda CR-V … and I tend to agree
The 2010 Honda Civic sedan has been released with added safety features and several new colours
A concept car that can be powered by just about anything you like.
Here’s another fun commercial for Honda Jazz … if you’ve just bought a blue demo you might care to check it for building blocks
Reuters is reporting that Honda is offering it’s Formula One team for sale and if there are no buyers Honda will simply shut the team down.
That’s an interesting move because it’s Formula One presence is a big part of Honda’s current marketing here in Australia.
Just over 20 years ago Honda started thinking of producing a car that produced nothing but water vapour and now that car is about to be released to the public in the United States.
The FCX Clarity is powered by an electric motor that draws its power from a fuel cell that converst hydrogen and oxygen [...]
The United States version of the latest Honda Accord has been released and it’s certainly something that’s going to attract a lot of attention.
Even someone who happened to be looking over my shoulder as I prepared the images wanted to know more about this classy looking 2008 Honda Accord.
Mixing attitude with functionality
There were a number of concept cars at the recent Los Angeles Motor Show and American Honda had their own styling concept car on display.
According to Honda “the REMIX explores the shape and design of a two-seat sports car focused on agile and fun-to-drive performance that can also provide exceptional practicality as [...]
AAAAGGGGHHHHH MY EYES!
It’s said to have cost $US150,000 and it’s not something you want to look at if you’re nursing a hangover – in fact it’s not something you would want to look at for too long at all.
It was described as the >Best Overall Car Job Ever on the Daily Buzzer website but they [...]
Well … they do in the UK.
Honda UK has teamed up with Britain’s Metropolitan Police in the country’s biggest ever hybrid car fleet deal, with 117 Honda Civic Hybrids leased for use by police Community Support Officers.
The hybrids will be used as part of a Safer Neighbourhoods scheme – an initiative to increase police presence [...]
Honda have released slightly altered Accord sedans and Odyssey vans into the wild.
Accord
Rear styling changes have been made and include LED tail lamps. Other changes to the sedan include a drive-by-wire throttle, new allowy wheels and alterations to the interior trip
The V6 Accords now include Vehicle Stability assist and satellite navigation has been added to [...]
Honda announced yesterday that it was recalling over half a million vehicles manufactured between Oct 3 1994 and May 15 1997 because of a faulty part used in starting the engine.
Models affected include Oddyssey minivans, CR-V SUVs and Step vans. The affected vehicles were sold in Japan, the United States, Europe and various Asian and [...]
Honda has announced plans to have a completely new manufacturing plant on line in 2009 to produce 150,000 Civics and Fit models for the North American market. Reports suggest that the new plant will have the capacity to increase production to 300,000 models a year bringing Honda’s total capacity in North America to something [...]
Honda describe this car as their “bite-sized wonder” and there is no doubt that this definitely does fall into the small market and they are even going so far as to promote it in a toy-like way with an obvious attempt to link the Jazz to Thomas the Tank Engine.
The price of $15,990 for the [...]
While the Honda Civic hybrid (pictured) and the Toyota Prius – perhaps the best known hybrid in Australia – did not seem to attract much attention at the Brisbane Motor Show that could all change in the next few years.
A recent survey by KPMG of 140 automotive executives from around the world found that almost [...]
There are definitely times when the way manufacturers advertise their motor vehicles is downright boring.
But you really couldn’t describe this ad produced to market the Honda Civic in the United Kingdom as boring (the Honda web page has since been removed).
Oh and the car looks like this:
This is the Honday Element – it’s a four wheel drive vehicle sold by Honda in the United States and its target market is young people. It even has a sun roof over the back seat – not for the comfort of back seat passengers but to allow young drivers to carry their surfboards inside [...]
The Honda Motor Company has announced plans to expand their operations in India. Currently 30,000 units are year are produced at Honda’s Indian plants and the planned expansion will allow that figure to rise to 50,000 a year.
Currently Honda produce the City ZX and the Civic in India