Honda News

Honda is always trying to experiment with getting humans out of their products and onto its other products. How else could you explain a company that builds cars, motorcycles, the HondaJet, and—for professionally supervised landscaping shenanigans—riding lawnmowers? This, more than anything, will explain the gestation of the UNI-CUB, ...    Read more

If you call a mom a soccer mom, she might turn into a hockey mom and go all Mama Grizzly on you. If you think she drives a minivan, well—you'd be wrong, and as a certain Alaskan politician might insinuate, you better watch out for the claws. Or something like ...    Read more

This week's news was dominated by two important events. First, on Wednesday, a Torrance, Calif., court handed down a decision in the Heather Peters vs. Honda case. The result: Ms. Peters isn't going to be making much money on lawsuits anytime soon. The second is that racing and race car ...    Read more

After more than four months of legal battles, a Torrance, California, judge overturned the February 1 decision that awarded $9,867 to 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid owner Heather Peters. She won the judgment in California's small claims court system, convincing the court that Honda made false claims about her car's ability ...    Read more

The 2013 Honda Accord will be available in the U.S. well before the end of 2012. Yet, hardly anyone has seen much of it beyond the Accord coupe concept that debuted at this year's ...    Read more

When Toyota had that niggling little kerfuffle a few years ago, what with its cars accelerating its occupants without their knowledge, analysts and pundits wondered out loud when, or if, Toyota would gain its mojo back. Turns out, the answer is now. Toyota sales were up 13.8 percent in April, ...    Read more

Abraham Lincoln (you know, that guy on the five-dollar bill) once said "whatever you are, be a good one." While Lincoln was gone long before Chrysler became an official corporation in 1925, the Auburn Hills-based automaker appears to have taken that bit of advice to heart when it comes to ...    Read more

It was a great month for Honda, Subaru, Toyota and Mazda, which all posted either double-digit growth or the best month ever in the company’s history. Which is kind of like the difference between finding a quarter in your pants pocket on laundry day and winning the Stanley Cup. The ...    Read more

Honda showed off the Concept C at Beijing this month, a large sedan that—like all concepts shown in China this year—was inspired by dragons, according to Honda. And Chinese people sure love their dragons, it seems. Question is, will the Americans love dragons as well? Lidded like a jack-o-lantern with ...    Read more

The wheelchair-vehicle automotive segment is not one that often gets press, but an interesting and unsurprising trend is emerging now that thousands of mostly young, injured veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in need of transportation. "They just don't want minivans," said Doug Eaton, president and chief executive ...    Read more

The biggest story of the week was the Beijing Auto Show. No longer a backmarker on the show circuit, Beijing is rapidly becoming a must-attend event for automakers and auto journalists alike. And, not surprisingly, there were some pretty major announcements, and a few sneak peeks of what we might ...    Read more

Last year might have been the toughest on record for Japan's three major automakers, Toyota, Nissan, and Honda. A strong yen partnered with the horrific natural disaster that struck Japan in March of 2011 crippled the three aforementioned automakers and all have only recently recovered. Honda was the last of ...    Read more

China's annual international auto show, which rotates each year between Beijing and Shanghai, is a mixed bag of promise and a facade of decades-old technology hiding under fresh sheetmetal. China's auto market is still emerging, and the country doesn't always have the same sets of quality and crash standards of ...    Read more

We like how SUVs and crossovers offer height to see ahead, and offering plenty of space for when you need to haul those 3-5 extra people. But, more and more, we hate the way the swill gasoline in the process. But you have to pay at the pumps to play, ...    Read more

What do the Coachella music festival, a Honda lawsuit, and a couple of Chevy-themed videos have in common? Nothing, really, except that they were all covered at Automotive.com this week, and all recapped here in our Week in Review. It was a big week for news, really, with all kinds ...    Read more

"Comply to my three conditions, or I'll sue you." That was Judge Dudley Gray II's paraphrasing of a letter sent by Heather Peters to Honda's customer service department on November 18 of last year. The letter spoke louder than any evidence previously submitted in the ...    Read more

While hybrid cars and vehicles save on non-renewable fossil fuels, their powertrains are complex and utilize an enormous amount of precious resources, especially materials like rare earths. Well, Honda, which manufactures several hybrids including the Honda Civic Hybrid, Insight, and the CR-Z as well as the upcoming Acura ILX hybrid, ...    Read more

"This is not a typical court case," Judge Dudley W. Gray II said at 10:07 Friday morning. He'd go on to repeat himself another half-dozen times in front of an audience of 22 people on hand for the appeals hearing of Heather Peters v. American Honda in his Torrance, Calif. ...    Read more

Ford Motor Company has announced pricing for the redesigned 2013 Escape crossover with the base level S model starting at $23,295 including shipping. The ultra-lux Titanium trim is also available for the first time ever on the latest model year Escape replacing the former top trim, the Limited. To land ...    Read more

Zipcar, the trendy hourly rental car service for sophisticated urbanites and car-hating youths, will be adding a lot of advanced Honda electric vehicles to its lineup—everything from plug-ins to hybrids, all with the big H in front. Honda will provide the car sharing network with the new Fit EV, which ...    Read more

In the days leading up to the Beijing Auto Show, Honda unveiled its business strategy for the Chinese market. It included the fact that the NSX is coming to China, the addition of three new hybrid models, and expanding production capacity at Dongfeng Honda (which builds the CR-V and the Civic). ...    Read more

You know you're in the presence of tough company when your CEO says 26,771 midsize cars sold last month alone just wasn't good enough. But Honda's Tetsuo Iwamura isn't used to his company's 2012 Honda Accord playing third behind the Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima in the family sedan arena. "We are not ...    Read more

We're well into 2012, but if March sales are any indication, the beat plays on for Japanese automakers. March proved to be a mixed bag for Japanese stalwarts, with luxury brands such as Lexus, Acura, and Infiniti experiencing a long winter. On the flip side, economical, value-driven cars are something ...    Read more

Misbehaving headlights are the cause of the latest Honda recall. According to the automaker, wiring in model year 2002-2004 Honda CR-V and Pilot crossovers could cause the headlights to fail which could lead to an accident. Approximately 554,000 Honda Pilot and CR-V vehicles may be affected by the issue. CR-V and ...    Read more

In a trend that has it joining the ranks of Ford, Chevrolet, and perpetual arch-nemesis Volkswagen, Honda laid the groundwork for a new plant in Mexico for its Fit hatchback. Celaya, Guanajuato, will be the new birthplace of the Honda Fit, which is also built in a veritable laundry list of exotic locales: ...    Read more