Honda Cars : On the road to zero emissions | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

The number of motor vehicles in the world will triple by 2050 - but carbon dioxide emissions from vehicle exhausts will have to halve in that time. A big ask? Yes, but it must be done, a Japanese motor industry expert tells Rob Maetzig .When Michio Shinohara sat down to chat with the news media in Auckland last week, one of the first things he did was to bombard the journalists with some rather sobering statistics.While the world's motor vehicle...

Honda Cars : Honda CEO “Not Satisfied” With Automaker’s Recent Performance | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Honda CEO Takanobu Ito criticized the “complacent” nature of his company at the Beijing Auto Show, taking aim at poor sales figures, a lack of product direction and a need to focus on improving the company’s hybrid systems.Honda’s market share slid by 0.4 percent, with Ito citing the disappointing sales of the Insight hybrid as a particular sore spot. In Insight has been pitched as an alternative to the Prius, but poor reviews, lower fuel economy...

Honda Cars : 2010 Honda Accord EX vs. 2011 Hyundai Sonata SE, 2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5i - Comparison Tests | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Here's a really good comparison test between three really good cars....Practically Chic: Does style really matter in these mid-size schleppers armed with just four cylinders and slushboxes?For all the ascendance of crossovers—certainly the most amoebic of all automotive classifications—mid-size sedans continue to be one of autodom’s biggest sales categories. There are many reasons for this—all-around family usefulness, resistance to the swollen SUV...

Honda Cars : Beijing 2010: Honda Li Nian Everus sedan concept | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

I can't help but think that this concept is showing the direction that Honda may be going with the next generation Honda Civic....The Beijing Motor Show is well under way, and Honda is showing off a new concept slated for the Chinese market. Called the Li Nian Everus, the car is the fruit of a partnership between the Japanese automaker and its Chinese partner, Guangqi Honda Automobile. We don't have too many details on the sedan other than the fact...

Honda Cars : Happy Earth Day from The Honda Portal! | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

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Honda Cars : FT-86 Price and Range Out Of Control? | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

According to sources,”…ballooning development costs will result in a more expensive Toyota FT-86 when it arrives late next year…”This is without mentioning the disputes over the origin of the power plants…According to Toyota, the boxer engine is ill-favored, saying, “The Subaru boxer engine planned for the car is not considered to be that clean or fuel-efficient.”…and that prices with the boxer in tow, could top,”…the Japanese price up to around...

Honda Cars : Honda Freed “premium compact MPV” launched: RM112,980 in Malaysia | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

This would do well here, 6X seater, looks like power sliding doors, seats fold up in the 3rd row like the Element....what's not to like?Honda Malaysia has launched the Freed, which the company describes as a “premium compact MPV” in a new market segment. The “premium” slant is meant to distance this seven-seater from rivals’ compact MPVs, and the Freed’s price of RM112,980 (OTR with insurance) backs up the positioning – it’s costlier than the Nissan...

Honda Cars : GM pays back government loans in full | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Here's a bit of good news....Kansas City, Kansas – General Motors has made its final payment of US$5.8 billion to the U.S. Treasury and Export Development Canada, paying back its government loans in full and ahead of schedule. The payment includes $4.7 billion to the U.S. Treasury, and $1.1 billion to Export Development Canada.The announcement was made by GM chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre at a ceremony in Fairfax, Kansas to announce an investment of...

Honda Cars : Volkswagen’s electric Milano Taxi concept | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Now, that's just too cool....This is the taxi of the future, according to Volkswagen. VW, which will launch its first production electric vehicles in 2013 has shown this electric driven taxi at the Hanover Trade Show. Called the Milano Taxi concept, it is a city MPV tailored to the needs of taxi drivers and passengers with innovative details such as a swivel-sliding door that opens in a forward direction and customisable taxi touchscreens.The green...

Honda Cars : Huge New Fuel Source Found: Old Cars | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Talk about unfortunate timing: Just as the scrapping incentives all around the world are running out, a Japanese company found a way to turn old cars into fuel.According to The Nikkei [sub], Japan’s JFE Engineering Corp. is set to open an automobile recycling center that turns the increasing amounts of plastics found in a car back into fuel.The Nikkei says that the Kanagawa plant (halfway between Tokyo and Yokohama) will open in July. It has the...

Honda Cars : THE HONDA CR-Z SPORTY HYBRID COUPE | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Pure eye candy....this car is looking better and better the more I see it....THE HONDA CR-Z SPORTY HYBRID COUPEThe Honda CR-Z is a unique new car, combining the advantages of a clean, efficient petrol electric hybrid powertrain with a 6-speed manual transmission and a stylish coupe body.This exciting new coupe will change current perceptions of hybrids, with its driver-focussed, chassis and responsive 1.5-litre engine.-All-new, sporty, aerodynamic,...

Honda Cars : Next Generation Honda Civic Rendering | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Hmmm, not sure what to say about this one, looks an awful lot like that small car sold in Asia by Honda.... if what they're saying is true, the code name for the new Honda Civic project is "2 HC"....2011-2012 Honda Civic (2 HC codename) Rendering and speculationThere are reports emerging concerning the next generation Civic (nine generation) that is set to be introduced in september 2011 as a 2012 model year car. Knowing the traditional way of doing...

Honda Cars : Honda's first truck tops in reliability | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Guess which pickup truck has the top reliability rating of any consumer truck sold in the United States. Two hints: It's built by a company that's known for fuel-efficient car, and it's not one of the best-selling trucks in the country.The answer: The Honda Ridgeline.Introduced in spring 2005 as Honda's first pickup, the Ridgeline isn't a brawny brute capable of towing 8,500 pounds and climbing over sizable rocks off road.Rather, the Ridgeline is...

Honda Cars : What's really behind the Toyota debacle | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Interesting read, a lot of things that I didn't know....(Fortune) -- At 77, Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of Toyota, is still causing trouble for the automaker.He is being painted, most recently in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, as both the architect of a global expansion that proved ruinous and an enemy of the Toyoda family.But blaming Okuda for what has gone wrong at Toyota (TM) recently hardly gets to the root cause of the company's problems.For that,...

Honda Cars : Report: Toyota Prius minivan coming in 2011 | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Nice concept, 2011 (if true) seems like an accelerated launch date for something like this, let's hope that Toyota is learning a little from what's going on right now and not just forcing something through in a attempt to draw attention to them elsewhere....We've been hearing the rumors for over a year, and it's now looking increasingly likely that Toyota is getting ready to launch a new hybrid minivan that will wear the Prius nameplate. If true,...

Honda Cars : DRIVEN: HONDA CR-Z | 2013 New Honda Car Reviews 0

Has Honda really made the world's first genuinely sporty hybrid?I really want to like the Honda CR-Z. Whatever you think of hybrids (and I can think of plenty of unpublishable but appropriate adjectives), they are here to stay. So if we have to put up with their existence, then making them sporty can be no bad thing. Question is: can you really make a truly fun hybrid, or is the CR-Z too much of a compromise, a car that's neither sporty enough nor...