Honda News

J.D. Power released its Initial Quality Survey (IQS) today, finding that the majority of problems customers faced were not on account of defects of faulty manufacturing. The IQS indicated that the issues customers experienced within the first 90 days of ownership had to do with the design of certain features, ...    Read more

There are plenty of recalls afoot this week for car and truck owners, so here's a quick rundown of all of them in one spot. 2013 Ram 1500 Pickup Truck Ram 1500 trucks made from June 25, 2012, to December 12, 2012, are being recalled for a sticky coolant ...    Read more

For this episode of Motor Trend's Ignition, Carlos Lago tests out the 2013 Honda Civic Si. It has a naturally aspirated engine and is attempting to compete in an increasingly competitive sport compact segment. Can this car really take on the turbocharged Ford Focus ST and Volkswagen Golf GTI? The Honda ...    Read more

If you have small kids, infants to age 4, you probably already know that buckling your little one into a child safety seat is a no-brainer. However, what about after that, more specifically ages 4 to 8? Child boosters exist, but do parents know how to they're supposed to be used? ...    Read more

How long is your daily commute? A half-hour? An hour? More? The longer your commute--especially if it's gotten longer recently--the better, according to a new study. INRIX, a data company, says that the average commute has increased 9 percent nationwide over the last year, the second largest increase it's seen in ...    Read more

Images of the 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid have leaked sooner than expected, as Honda's Japanese website has them live (at the time of this writing ). We've known for some time that Honda would debut the hybrid version of its most important vehicle, the Accord, sometime this summer. We can ...    Read more

In the month of May, there was no silver bullet to finding sales success. Not one segment dominated, as automakers saw their sales soar--many to record heights--amid what was a very giving month. Cadillac saw its highest amount of growth since the 1970s, with the ATS, SRX, and new XTS all ...    Read more

We have to admit it, we really like the 2013 Honda Fit EV, the all-electric subcompact hatch only available in a handful of dealerships. Today, we got a bit of good news and a some even better news. Out here in California, you ...    Read more

Quick: Name the five best compact crossovers sold in the U.S. today. There are more than a dozen from which to choose, but if you answered the 2013 Ford Escape, 2013 Honda CR-V, 2014 Mazda CX-5, 2014 Subaru Forester, and 2013 Toyota RAV4, you owe yourself a pat on the back. ...    Read more

Memorial Day weekend officially kicked off what's known as the summer driving months. Or, if you live in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, or Northeast, it's called construction season. Anyhow, an estimated 31 million drivers took to the open road during the holiday weekend, but approximately 250,000 had to call AAA for help, ...    Read more

It's getting warm outside. Students are getting out of school for the year. On top of all of that, Memorial Day is less than a week away, and you're bound to be hitting the highway for a getaway. Unless you're renting a car, chances are you'll need to make sure your ...    Read more

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has launched an eight-part series that takes viewers inside the Institute's Vehicle Research Center in Ruckersville, Virginia. The Institute goes behind the scenes to show how crash test dummies work, and how the IIHS engineers crash and evaluate the safety of every new ...    Read more

The Honda Aircraft Company, a division of Honda Motors, announced new achievements and milestones during the development of the HondaJet during the 2013 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE). The program has flown through 3,300 test points for stability, control, performance, landing gear, flight controls, and more. Michimasa Fujino, president ...    Read more

Thanks to the partnership between McLaren and Honda for Formula 1 and the success of McLaren's road car division, there are rumors that the next McLaren road car set to be slotted below the 12C to fight the Porsche 911 will be powered by a Honda-developed engine. This speculation isn't that ...    Read more

We understand that time is valuable, and for your benefit, we've composed a list to highlight the most important news each day of the past week. Kicking things off was an NHTSA announcement that traffic fatalities are gearing up to break a devastating record. Thankfully the next few days brought ...    Read more

From 1964 to 2008, Honda participated in Formula 1 competition through multiple avenues including racing, building cars, and supplying engines. Today, Honda announced that it will be rejoining Formula 1 in the form of an engine builder for McLaren. When Honda was last involved in F1 competition, it created a ...    Read more

Week in Review posts have been a five-day affair for us. This week, we were bestowed with more than a few newsworthy pieces dropping over the weekend, making our lives a little busier. This week was trucktacular, as Chevrolet started its press drives for the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado. We'll have ...    Read more

The 2013 Honda Civic Sedan has earned top safety ratings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), as well as the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS). It has received a five-star overall vehicle score from the NHTSA, as well as a Top Safety Pick+ award, the highest crash ...    Read more

Today, Honda announced that it will be investing $470 million into a new transmission facility in Celaya, near Guanajuato, Mexico. This new transmission facility will be built next to another new production facility that's slated to begin building the Honda Fit in the spring of 2014. This new transmission facility ...    Read more

President Barack Obama has formally nominated Charlotte, North Carolina mayor Anthony Foxx to succeed Ray LaHood as Secretary of Transportation. Foxx will continue the goal LaHood has set to rebuild and expand the nation's infrastructure. News of Obama's nomination began to leak this past Sunday, and according to Obama, Foxx is ...    Read more

Honda is recalling 43,782 2012-13 Honda Fit Sport models for an issue with the vehicle's Vehicle Stability Assist system software. The Honda Fit Sport is the automaker's entry-level hatchback five-door model. Issue Honda Fit Sport models equipped  with certain tires do not meet U.S Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards ...    Read more

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Closes its fiscal fourth quarter with an increase of 5.8 percent from the same period last year, totaling $805 million. Consolidated net sales and other revenue amounted to $29.2 million, increasing more than 14 percent after recovering from the impact of the ...    Read more

Honda is recalling nearly 205,000 vehicles to replace the shift interlock in the 2012 and 2013 Honda CR-V, 2012 and 2013 Honda Odyssey, and 2013 Acura RDX. Affecting approximately 128,000 CR-Vs, 59,000 Odysseys, and 17,500 RDXs, effective immediately Honda is reeling the vehicles back in because the interlock could falter, allowing ...    Read more

The U.S. and Japan have agreed to begin talks that could lead to the elimination of import tariffs on Japanese-made cars and trucks, angering many politicians and the domestic automakers. As part of the Asia-Pacific trade agreement, the two nations sorted their differences among politicians, allowing Japan to join a larger ...    Read more

Today, the largest ever recall for airbags was announced, with 3.4 million vehicles being recalled with airbags made by Takata. The world's second largest supplier of airbags took a stock hit as shared dropped 10 percent in Tokyo trading. This recall marks Toyota's largest recall since October of last year, when ...    Read more