Posts from ‘October, 2009’

Honda Insight gets a very significant award by the Committee of Japan Automotive Hall of Fame as the Car of the Year 2009-2010. The three basic factors which led to this award are, the strategy of affordable pricing Honda used in marketing the hybrid Insight; the Insight’s balance of driving performance and environmental performance and [...]

Acura’s vehicle lineup of 2011 will be more interesting with the addition of a TSX sport wagon based on the popular TSX sports sedan. This model will be available at Acura dealerships in the fall 2010 and will feature balanced performance, advanced technology and bold styling as described by Acura.

American Honda has made a really great and very clever decision to reduce the CO2 emissions produced, by eliminating 1,720 truck trips from San Diego all the way to northern California. To achieve this major task, Honda American announced the opening of a third West Coast port facility in Richmond, California. This means that a [...]

Honda Marine USA, announced an innovative online sales training program for Honda Marine dealers. The all new program will offer comprehensive sales education modules. This new course by Honda Marine University has been implemented to promote sales educational excellence among Honda dealerships in the US. Since the foundation of Honda Marine University, the ability of [...]

Please find below details on Honda’s latest information release. Honda Motor Co., Ltd., announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic sales, and export results for the month of September 2009 and the first half of the current fiscal year (April-September 2009). Production First Half of Current Fiscal Year (April – September 2009) Production in [...]

Honda has available on their site the consolidated financial results for the fiscal second quarter and the fiscal half ended September 30, 2009. You may find them in pdf format into the following two links together with their presentation: Consolidated Financial Results Presentation

Mugen doesn’t waste too much time and looks into the future of the new CR-Z, according to Autocar. Hiroki Toyoda, vice president of Mugen Euro said that “the hybrid powertrain would create a new set of tuning opportunities, with the electric motor acting as a kind of turbo at low speeds, to compensate for a [...]

This will shake things around to all Honda fans and particular those who can’t wait to see if a new NSX successor may finally rise or not. Honda has formally announced that they will no longer use the NSX-GT in the GT500 class of the Super GT. The main reason is that the new rules [...]

Good news for Honda and Mugen fans, since the Mugen Civic Type-R limited production of only 20 cars will go ahead. Those cars will be hand build in the UK by Mugen’s European division. Prices are expected to be set at £38,599 ($64,000 or €42,900 at the current exchange rates). It is still not confirmed [...]

Honda Aircraft Company, Inc., announced at the annual National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention the major and significant milestone achievements for the HondaJet advanced light jet program which includes also the completion of major structural assemblies for the first conforming aircraft. Those milestones achievements can be seen below. -Major structural assemblies for first conforming aircraft [...]

Honda CEO, Takanobu Ito, revealed at the Tokyo Motor Show 2009 that Honda would consider to build “green” sports cars in the future that would represent the technology of Honda. He also mentioned that he made the decision to stop the development of the NSX successor. He did point out that the approach of the [...]

For those that want to get a good idea of what Honda U3-X unicycle and other assist devices really offer to the user, please check the link below. You will find a nice first hand review of those devices as tried out by Autoblog. They were very impressed as well as we did reading their [...]

The new ASIMO goes to Italy and will make the debut at Genoa Science Festival. This is the seventh year of the Science Festival in Italy which consists of hundreds of event such as exhibitions, workshops, interactive displays, live shows and music. This year the theme of the festival is The Future and ASIMO will [...]

The following video introduces the new Honda EV-N concept with UX-3 storage spot which is powered on batteries. A very environmental friendly vehicle, that brings a lot of memories from the past.

For those who really want to get into more details of Honda’s showroom at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009, please find below a very useful link that describes and gives you a complete Press Information of Honda’s participation. Follow this link to the Press Information