Honda News

Jay Leno and Jerry Seinfeld aren't the only two people clamoring over the Acura NSX. What's there more to say about the NSX—the Sportscar eXperimental designed with input by the late, legendary F1 champion Aryton Senna, the wedge-shaped, popup-lighted creation that made the supercar establishment ...    Read more

Intellichoice has released its annual list of cars it considers a Best Value of the Year. Analyzing every new car for the 2012 model year, Intellichoice applies cost analysis to determine cars that have low total ownership  costs as well as lower than expected costs over time. Looking beyond the initial ...    Read more

Quick, how many of you enthusiasts and consumers really understand how the Environmental Protection Agency tests cars and trucks for fuel economy? Did you know that the EPA tests vehicles under a simulated "real-world" environment inside a laboratory? Or that cars are not actually driven by people, but by dynamometer ...    Read more

Just days after Honda announced pricing for the Crosstour, they're forced to announce something else: the Crosstour, along with its Accord platform-mate, are being recalled for an airbag system that could fail to deploy the driver's side airbag. The driver's side airbag inflator is defective on about 341 Accords and ...    Read more

We in the media have been taken aback by this David-versus-Goliath story of California resident Heather Peters beating American Honda in court over her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid's apparently lackluster fuel economy. Honda's apparent inattentiveness to minding the car's real efficiencies helped cast the company as indifferent to her complaints. ...    Read more

In almost surefire proof that a company can never be too cautious these days, Honda is recalling 2011 and 2012 Ridgeline trucks for having the wrong size spare tire. The Ridgeline normally comes with a compact, "space-saver" spare. But in certain models, a production gaffe left owners with a full-size spare. ...    Read more

Ignore all the froufrou about the Acura NSX, pictured above, and the sleek, unpronounceable Lexus concept that were hyped up at the last auto show. Some significant Japanese cars came out this month, and their sales figures reflect the shininess: the Toyota Camry, Honda CR-V, and Subaru Impreza ...    Read more

The Los Angeles small claims court has awarded 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid owner Heather Peters $9,867 against American Honda in a case stemming from her car's inability to achieve numbers anywhere close to the EPA estimates. Starting last November, Peters filed a claim against Honda after her car failed to achieve ...    Read more

The Super Bowl of advertising is just around the corner, once again coinciding with the actual Super bowl. Good thing too, since it's a sure bet that not all of the millions of people watching The Big Game actually enjoy football. However, all of them do buy stuff on occasion, ...    Read more

Honda plans to invest $98 million into an engine plant in the curiously-named Anna, Ohio, ahead of its plan to build next-generation powertrains, such as advanced hybrids. Japanese companies such as Honda have been investing heavily into American production; the rising strength of the yen means that it's increasingly expensive to ...    Read more

Its been a busy week here at Automotive.com, and there's a good chance you missed some of it. So to help out, we've compiled our top five stories, one from each day, to help you stay on top of what's going on in the automotive world. Monday, January 23 ...    Read more

For fans of large-schnozed pseudo-coupe people movers, the Honda Crosstour now comes with a smaller engine, and a lower price: $27,655, for the well-equipped EX model. This is before an $810 destination charge, but also comes in at $2,685 less than the V-6-engined Crosstour. The big-engined model has 79 more horsepower ...    Read more

The California Air Resources Board, the state agency in charge of emissions laws, is voting this week on whether it is to adopt the Advanced Clean Cars Program. The Consumer Union, parent company of Consumer Reports, let its voice known that it wants California to vote approve the strongest measures ...    Read more

What it is: A new compact crossover for the car that revolutionized compact crossovers, the 2012 Honda CR-V comes as an update for the aging, yet still popular model. Best thing: We commend Honda for building a new vehicle that is actually less heavy and larger ...    Read more

During its first go around with Heather Peters small claims court over her 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid's dismal gas mileage, Honda skipped out on supplying subpoenaed information. But after the case ...    Read more

The past few years has seen major shakeups in the automotive industry, and it shows in a recent survey on brand perception conducted by Consumer Reports. Once dominant players Toyota, Honda, Ford, and Chevrolet remain on top, but each automaker has seen its points gap decrease compared to last year. ...    Read more

It's no secret that our cars, like our waistbands, are expanding every year. And nowhere is this more evident than in the fact that the "subcompact" 1982 Honda Accord, which we saw at the Detroit Auto Show, is now dwarfed by the car once designed to fit below ...    Read more

Minivans are experiencing a lull now, but we're just a few short years away from the next minivan renaissance. At least according to a report from Automotive News. Last year, just over half a million minivans were sold in America, a paltry number compared to the 1,371,234 sold in 2000, just ...    Read more

Next to Chuck Norris and that short guy from Jackass , the fair city of Torrance, Calif., now has another notable resident: The first Honda Fit EV, delivered to the city that Honda North America calls home. The car is part of Honda’s Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program, which sees the Fit ...    Read more

A California judge has tossed out a potential class-action lawsuit against Honda, because it didn’t fall under the state’s tough consumer protection laws. Turns out, the Acura RL equipped with the Collision Mitigation Braking System is supposed to warn drivers about a potential accident, tightening the seatbelts and applying the brakes ...    Read more

When Toyota introduced the Prius back in 1997, many thought it was the answer to oil prices that continued to swell uncontrollably. A decade and a half later, hybrid vehicles are losing their appeal with the U.S. market as gasoline engines not only continue to be cheaper, but close the ...    Read more

Heather Peters wanted a court to decide whether Honda defrauded her into buying a Civic Hybrid that never achieved anything close to its rated fuel economy. Instead, all she got was a continuation. Scheduled to reconvene Jan. 25, Peters' case was extended by Commissioner Doug Carnahan because he felt there ...    Read more

WE’RE NUMBER ONE! WE’RE NUMBER ONE! Nobody at Honda is shouting this today—because while Honda may have beat Toyota, it’s in the number of cars recalled. Given Toyota’s recent kerfluffle of recalls, it’s a pretty lofty accomplishment. But Honda managed to outdo its crosstown rival with a whopping 17 campaigns in ...    Read more

Conventional wisdom held that 2011 would be the year of the compact car. Instead, it was a year of disaster, frustration, and not atypically—hope. But everyone already knows 2011's great story: tsunami, earthquake, floods, and burying the past. It's that last part, plus summer's annual focus on the next production ...    Read more

It wasn't a walk in the park by any stretch of the imagination for the automotive industry in 2011. Fuel prices continued to climb ever higher while a natural disaster ravaged both Thailand and Japan causing parts shortages for many automakers. Hybrid vehicles weren't safe from the aforementioned issues either, ...    Read more