2001-02 Honda Accord, Civic facing airbag recall

America’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants to know why Honda recalled cars with faulty airbags in two separate groups over the past year rather than all together.

Last November, Honda recalled 2001 model Accords and Civics to repair over-pressurised airbag inflators that, if deployed, had the potential to rupture the metal inflator body and cause [...]

Honda opens new Asia, Oceania R&D centre

Honda R&D Asia Pacific (HRAP) was officially launched today with the Minister of Industry, Mr. Chanchai Chairungruang, presiding over the inaugural ceremony.

The primary focus of this new centre is to address the rapidly changing consumer needs and market demands as well as strengthening Honda’s competitiveness in Asia and Oceania region.
“Today’s opening of Honda R&D Asia [...]

Honda Civic Hatch is UK’s Most Reliable Fleet Car

The Honda Civic Hatch has been named most reliable fleet car in the UK.

The company car industry’s leading news paper Fleet News UK conducted a reliability survey, the biggest in the country. Honda claimed three of the top five most reliable cars in the UK, the Jazz and Accord listed third and fourth place.
The 50 [...]

Honda Australia stands up to TAC’s motorcycle scare tactics

Fed up with a number of new “scare tactics” advertising campaigns about motorcyclists, Honda Australia is instead emphasising the importance of appropriate training and riding advice in the lead up to summer.

Honda Motorcycles general manager Tony Hinton says his company is working overtime to educate both current riders as well as those who have an [...]

Honda & industry body drive UK hybrid technician awards

Honda is working with the Institute of Motoring Industry’s (IMI) presenting body awards to bring out nationwide qualifications for maintaining hybrid cars in the UK.

To be made available to mechanics across the industry, the Automotive Internal Combustion and Electric Hybrid Technology Components and Operation Award includes practical and theory components as well as a skills-based [...]

Honda leads industry awards

At the Tokyo Motor Show Honda strengthened its leadership position with the awareness of its dominance of the Japan Car of the Year award.

The awards began in 1980, since then a Honda model has won the award ten times, more than any other manufacturer. The Civic won four times, the Accord three and two awards [...]

Honda stand at Tokyo Motor Show

The Honda stand at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show featured a number of environmentally orientated vehicles under Honda’s HELLO! program.

The Honda stage featured such participants as the FCX Clarity, EV-N (a vehicle with looks originating in Honda’s early Scout models), Cub Electric Motorscooter, and U3-X unicycle concept.
Honda explains the stand as follows:
As the world prepares [...]

MUGEN Civic Type R confirmed for limited production

Honda’s in-house tuning arm, MUGEN, has confirmed a limited production run of the Civic Type R MUGEN, following huge interest in the concept version from the UK and overseas.

Only 20 cars will be hand-built in the UK by MUGEN with customers receiving a unique, involved experience during the build process of each car.
With over two [...]

Toyota & Honda disagree on sports cars

It’s always interesting when two car companies disagree with each other, but it’s even more interesting when it’s Toyota and Honda, Japan’s biggest manufacturers.

Whilst Toyota has been stealing the limelight with its gorgeous new Lexus LFA, a two-seater supercar that’s powered by an incredible 4.8-litre V10 engine, Honda seems to think that’s old fashioned technology.

The [...]

Honda Jazz named UK’s most reliable used car

The Honda Jazz has been named as the UK’s most reliable car according to new research from insurance specialist, Warranty Direct.

Data compiled from Warranty Direct’s 50,000 UK policies on four- to seven-year old cars shows that Jazz models were the most reliable in the survey period.
According to the Warranty Direct Reliability Index, which measures [...]

2009 Large Car Comparison

Ford Falcon vs. Holden Commodore vs. Nissan Maxima vs. Honda Accord vs. Toyota Aurion vs. Skoda Superb
Models Tested:

2009 Ford Falcon G6E Turbo; 4.0-litre, six-cylinder, petrol; six-speed automatic; sedan – $57,490
2009 Holden Commodore Calais V-Series; 3.6-litre, six-cylinder, petrol; six-speed automatic; sedan – $56,790
2009 Nissan Maxima Ti; 3.5-litre, six-cylinder, petrol; CVT gearbox; sedan – $46,990
2009 Honda Accord [...]

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