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Safety and the Hona CR-Z
By Stuart Livesey on Aug 29, 2010 in Honda
Discover what has to be built into a car if it’s to have any hope of achieving a five-star safety rating.
Category: Honda
Honda CR-Z – it’s a big hit in Japan
By Stuart Livesey on Mar 26, 2010 in Honda
In the first month Honda has sold 10 times the number of CR-Z cars that it expected to sell.
Honda Insight – World Green Car Awards Finalist
By Stuart Livesey on Mar 15, 2010 in Honda
It’s not due here till late in the year but it’s already winning awards overseas.
Honda Accord and Honda CR-V Named ‘Best in Class’ in the United States
By Stuart Livesey on Mar 10, 2010 in Honda
Here in Australia Honda sales are diving while in other countries Honda’s winning awards
The 2010 Honda CR-V
By Stuart Livesey on Feb 21, 2010 in Honda
The latest in a long line of great Honda CR-Vs
Honda Jazz Recall – Not in Australia
Honda says that no Jazz model vehicles sold in Australia need to be recalled.
Honda Jazz – Best Car for Retained Value in the UK
Small cars do tend to hold their value … at least for the first couple of years.
Honda CR-V is Britain’s Most Popular Pre-Owned SUV
What’s the best used SUV you can buy? The Poms think that it’s a Honda CR-V … and I tend to agree 
2010 Honda Civic Sedan
The 2010 Honda Civic sedan has been released with added safety features and several new colours
Honda’s P-Nut
By Stuart Livesey on Dec 19, 2009 in Honda
A concept car that can be powered by just about anything you like.
The Latest Honda Jazz Commercial
By Stuart Livesey on Dec 01, 2009 in Honda
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
Honda to Sell its F1 Team?
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.
Honda FCX Clarity – Leaving Nothing but Water Vapour
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 2008 Honda Accord
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.
Honda’s Remix – A Styling Concept Car
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 [...]
A Honda Civic Like No Other
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 [...]
Honda Hybrids Join the Force
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 Lifts the Face on Accord & Odyssey
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 Recalls Over Half a Million Vehicles
By Stuart Livesey on Jun 15, 2006 in Honda
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 [...]
Kia Expands Into Europe and Honda Expands in America
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 Jazz
By Stuart Livesey on Apr 19, 2006 in Jazz
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 [...]
Sales of Hybrid Cars Set to Boom
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 [...]
Honda Civic
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:
There’s No Accounting for Taste
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 [...]
Your Next Honda Civic Could Come From India
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
