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Jenson Button is no longer one of the best drivers to never win a Formula One event. After 113 races at racing’s highest level without a single win… the questions and doubts were mounting throughout the Formula One universe. “Was Button just another F1 playboy who’d never live up to his hype?” Last Saturday… he answered [...]

An all-new urban-oriented counterpart to the Honda Element will debut this fall with an exclusive sport suspension, larger wheels and tires, unique styling and special features like a carpeted interior and a center console, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced at the 2006 New York International Auto Show.
With performance more than skin deep, the Element [...]

No it’s not the new NSX or even the mythical XGA. Yesterday, at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture 2006 in Oshkosh, Wis. (the world’s largest annual aviation gathering) Honda announced that it was ready to take orders on the new Honda business jet.
“Aviation has been an important dream of Honda for more than four [...]

Koichi Kondo, Honda’s North American chief executive officer and president, announced today that Decatur county in Indiana was the big winner in a five location race to attract the first new US automotive manufacturing facility of the young century to be built in the former automotive stronghold of the Midwest.
“We look forward to crossing the [...]

Honda is substantially upgrading its top selling small utility vehicle, the CRV, for 2007.
The all new CR-V will be based on the same platform as the ’07 Acura RDX. Upgrades include, new styling, a stiffer structure, projector-beam headlamps, and a significantly upgraded power plant over the current 156 horsepower 2.4-liter inline four. (It is not [...]

It’s been a banner year for Honda. After winning both the prestigious Motor Trend Car and Truck of the year awards with the all new for ‘06 Civic and the innovative Ridgeline, Honda has done it again. The big new development… something small.
For model year ’07 Honda has brought to America its latest accomplishment, the [...]

The SCCA Honda Cup held its second race weekend of the year at Phoenix International Raceway last weekend. With only one S2000 entered to this event, (The semi-legendary Grey Ghost driven by owner Richard Laifatt (rlaifatt) the lone S2k) the field was wide open for the FWD cars to gain some momentum in the points [...]

Honda executives in Japan have stunned the automotive community with the declaration that 2006 will be the last year for the current S2000. The announcement was surprising coming from the usually tight lipped Honda brain-trust, and is most likely a response to Nissan’s recent announcement of the new Skyline GT-R. (Honda is aggressively pursuing a [...]

In a bit of brilliant detective work, undercover agents in the state of Texas will begin infiltrating taverns and clubs to arrest individuals for being intoxicated. The announcement came this past Wednesday from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
The first of these undercover operations was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents arrested 30 individuals [...]

As reported here earlier, this past weekend was the start of the 2006 Honda Cup season. The place was Buttonwillow Raceway in Southern California. The cars were running configuration number one, a challenging 3 mile course featuring tight corners, high speed sweepers, esses, off camber switchbacks, and five different places where the cars get over [...]