Honda is recalling nearly 127,000 City and Fit compact cars in Brazil over a gas pedal defect that could cause unwanted acceleration, the Japanese automaker said Friday.
Honda said Thursday it expects to create more than 100 jobs with the expansion of its western Ohio plant.
Honda's new hybrid Fit subcompact went on sale in Japan on Friday as the automaker expands its green car lineup that already includes the Insight and CR-Z sports car.
Honda said Friday that its U.S. sales rose 26 percent in September from a year earlier with a big growth in its Acura division.
The government has opened an investigation into the subcompact Honda Fit after receiving complaints that the vehicle's low-beam headlights stopped working.
Honda set the pricing for its all-new 2011 Odyssey minivan Thursday at $27,800, about $840 more than the 2010 version.
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Honda Motor Co. is recalling the popular Accord and Civic passenger cars to address problems with an ignition switch that could allow the key to be removed without the transmission being shifted into park, its third recall over the problem since 2003.
Honda's quarterly profit ballooned to a record 272.4 billion yen ($3.2 billion) and the carmaker raised its full year earnings forecast as sales grew in North America, Japan and the rest of Asia.
Honda will start selling an electric vehicle as well as a plug-in hybrid in 2012 in the U.S. and Japan, joining the race to manufacture green cars in which rivals have already taken slight leads.
Honda's U.S. division says its June sales rose 6.2 percent from a year earlier.
The words "sporty" and "hybrid" don't often go together. But with the CR-Z, Honda is hoping to shake buyers of the notion that hybrids have to be boring to drive.
Honda Motor Co., which has been repeatedly forced to suspend production in China due to strikes, again halted operations there Wednesday as a fresh walkout disrupted parts supplies.
Honda said Tuesday that its 2011 CR-Z sport hybrid coupe will have a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $19,200.
A Honda Motor parts supplier in southern China was operating at full capacity on Tuesday as striking workers returned to their jobs while wage talks continued, a company spokesman said.
Honda Motor Co. said a labor dispute at a parts plant that crippled the automaker's production in China has been resolved after a wage increase of 24 percent, and the affected assembly plants would be running again Saturday.
Honda Motor Co. said a labor dispute at a parts plant that crippled the automaker's production in China was resolved on Friday.
Honda's four auto assembly plants in China have ground to a halt after workers at a parts maker went on strike demanding better wages.
Honda Motor Co. is recalling about 167,000 Acura TSX cars to fix power steering hoses that could deteriorate and cause a fire under the hood.
Honda posted a 72 billion yen ($774 million) profit for the January-March quarter in a reversal from red ink a year earlier as booming demand in China and India combined with a fledgling U.S. recovery to boost car sales.
The green fad in Japan is expanding from cars to bikes with Honda's zero-emission super-quiet electric EV-neo scooter.
Honda's American division spent $585,000 lobbying Congress and the federal government in the fourth quarter on issues ranging from fuel-cell funding to climate change legislation.
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Honda is aiming to entice customers with among its most aggressive leasing programs ever after rival Toyota launched its own big program earlier this month.
Honda has announced that it will recall approximately 197,000 Accord and 117,000 Civic vehicles from the 2003 model year and roughly 69,000 Element vehicles from the 2003 and 2004 model years in the U.S. to prevent a malfunction of the ignition interlock feature of these vehicles.
Gasoline-powered cars run on gas. It is as simple as that. Regular or high-grade-which depending on the motor.
Honda Motor Co. plans to sell a hybrid version of its popular Fit compact car at around 1.59 million yen ($18,600), making it the cheapest hybrid in Japan when it goes on sale in October, the Tokyo Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun newspapers reported today.
Students from Hacienda Heights, California have built a vehicle with a hydrogen internal combustion engine (HICE) using a four-stroke engine from Honda. The three-wheeled vehicle runs entirely on hydrogen and uses absolutely no gasoline.
St. Petersburg, Fla. -- The Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg has been postponed until Monday at 10 a.m.
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Honda says it is recalling about 410,000 Odyssey minivans and Element crossovers because of problems with the brake pedals. The recall includes 344,000 Odysseys and 68,000 Elements from the 2007 and 2008 model years.
CR-Z hybrid sports car has drawn more than 7,000 orders only two weeks since its Feb. 26 debut
Honda has flipped the switch activating its next-generation solar hydrogen station prototype at its Torrance, California, R&D; center. Ultimately, it's seen as a home source capable of supplying an overnight refill for one's fuel-cell electric vehicle.
Internal Toyota documents derided the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as "activist" and "not industry friendly," a revelation that comes days before the giant automaker's top executives testify on Capitol Hill amid a giant recall.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- An automaker has confirmed that the death of a local girl is the reason for the company's latest recall.
About 87 percent of cars recalled by Honda this week were cars sold in the U.S., according to data released by Honda on Wednesday.
Another major recall from a "reliable" Japanese car company.........
On January 27, 2010 a Honda advertisement ran on Glenn Beck's show in the UK. Shortly after, the Stop Beck – UK effort contacted Honda and urged them to stop sponsoring Glenn Beck.
Honda, another respected Japanese automaker, is reportedly recalling 646,000 of its modern-looking 2007 and 2008 Fit models. What is going on. Is nothing safe any more.
Toyota isn't the only Japanese carmaker struggling with a recall issue. Honda has an issue of its own.
Japan's exports rose for the first time since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed 15 months ago, adding to signs that the world's second-largest economy is recovering from the global recession.
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Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. posted U.S. sales gains in December that beat analysts' estimates as the industry showed signs of stabilizing after its worst year in almost three decades.
Stephen wants to be a biblical figure on Conservapedia, the Louvre announces its plans to install a McDonald's, and Honda introduces a unicycle of the future.
Car-maker Honda has unveiled a prototype of a battery-powered unicycle, deigned for the elderly. The one-wheeled U3-X "personal mobility vehicle" can travel at speeds up to six kilometres (3.7 miles) per hour and was shown off in Tokyo, Japan.
Honda designed the U3-X so it can move forward and backwards, sideways and diagonally. Riders simply need to lean the direction they wish to go in, and it has a top speed of 3.7 MPH.
Gentlemen, start your incredibly lazy engines: Honda has a new answer for those of us too tired to get off our keisters. Meet the U3-X "personal mobility device," a unicycle-like ride that makes heading into the kitchen for pie as easy as -- well, pie.
Whats up with Harley-Davidson motorcycles, they ride like US Army surplus tanks. I'd give someone a thousand dollars to take up payments on this junker clunker of a machine, harley calls a motorcycle.