Honda News
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Honda has announced its next hybrid, the 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid, will be built at its Marysville, Ohio plant in the U.S. The Japanese carmaker is investing $23 million at the plant and hiring 50 new employees, ready for production of the two-motor hybrid before it goes on sale this fall. It makes the Accord Hybrid the third Honda hybrid to be produced in the U.S, following the Civic Hybrid and Acura ILX mild hybrids. Previously, all the company's hybrids were imported from Japan--while the Insight and CR-Z still are. The Accord Hybrid sedan will join the Accord Plug-In Hybrid in Honda's...
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2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid Priced Sub-$41K, 115 MPGe
Honda has revealed pricing for its upcoming Accord plug-in hybrid at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show. The car will be priced from $39,780 when it goes on sale January 15 in California and New York. That's just a little higher than the recently-announced price for the 2013 Ford Fusion Energi at...
Antony Ingram -
2013 Honda Civic: Updates And Live Photos From LA Auto Show
It's quite unusual for an auto company to make significant changes to a car--especially a successful one--just a year after it launched. But the 2013 Honda Civic introduced this morning at the Los Angeles Auto Show has updated styling, significant changes to the interior, and new standard features...
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2013 Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe: More Power, New Battery, Updated Style
Poor Honda. It creates the CR-Z, theoretically the perfect mix of fun and fuel efficiency, but ends up alienating both gearheads and green buyers by building something that struggles to satisfy either party. The 2013 Honda CR-Z should fix some of the car's issues, by improving both performance and...
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Next-Gen 2015 Honda Fit Getting More Efficient DI Engine, CVT
If you shop strictly by the EPA numbers today, the 2013 Honda Fit probably won't be among the top subcompacts you cross-shop. The current Fit's federal ratings, of 28 mpg city, 35 highway with the five-speed automatic, or just 27/33 mpg with the five-speed manual, aren't exactly at the top of the...
Bengt Halvorson -
2013 Honda Civic: Revised Model Debuts At L.A. Auto Show
Honda has unveiled its new 2013 Civic Sedan, which is set to debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show later this month. A new Civic may not be exciting, but as one of Honda's top-selling models it's certainly important, and one of the better-known gas-sippers on the market. Honda has revised the 2013...
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If you subscribe to the theory that Honda keeps all its really cool products in its home market of Japan, the announcement that the N-ONE retro-styled minicar has hit the market probably won’t do much to convince you otherwise. The N-ONE joins the N BOX and N BOX + models in Honda’s current minicar lineup. Designed with the principle of “M/M” (for man maximum, machine minimum) in mind, the N-ONE features a funky vintage design inspired by the N360 (which ultimately made it here in more powerful N600 form). The idea is to fit as much interior space as possible into a...
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Honda Presents Supercharged CR-Z Hybrid Hatch At SEMA Show
There’s been talk of a more powerful Honda CR-Z in the works ever since the hybrid ‘hot’ hatch was first launched. This was mostly because the CR-Z, which was billed as the first sporty hybrid, was neither sporty nor all that fuel efficient. Its official performance specs came in...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Honda Hybrids Hit The 1-Million Mark, After 13 Years
Quick, name a Japanese carmaker that's sold 1 million hybrid cars. Yes, OK, Toyota is a right answer. But there's another one, too, as of the end of September Automaker Honda announced yesterday that its total sales of hybrid cars had crossed the 1 million mark--just a month shy of 13 years from...
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Buy A 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas, Get A $3,000 Fuel Card
If you've been considering the purchase of a 2012 Honda Civic Natural Gas, now might be the time to sign on the dotted line. Honda, in conjunction with Clean Energy, is offering a $3,000 fuel card for the purchase of natural gas at any of Clean Energy's natural gas filling stations. When natural...
Antony Ingram -
2013 Honda CR-Z: Paris Auto Show Live Photos
Honda's updated CR-Z hybrid hatchback may not have been one of the stars of the Paris Auto Show, but with a power boost and some styling tweaks it's welcome all the same. With a boost in power from 122 to 135 horspower, the new model knocks over half a second from the old car's 0-62 mph time, now...
Antony Ingram -
2013 Honda CR-Z Hybrid Gets Better Acceleration, Boost Mode
The Honda CR-Z mild-hybrid sports coupe will get some evolutionary, not revolutionary, changes for the 2013 model year, the automaker has announced at the 2012 Paris Auto Show. From a distance, the 2013 CR-Z looks very similar to the 2012 model, but on closer inspection the redesigned fascia...
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If you live in a busy city and don’t use a car on a daily basis, making use of a car-sharing service like ZipCar is certainly one of the greener ways to get behind the wheel of a car when you need to. It’s no surprise then, that ZipCar’s fleet already includes some of the greenest cars on the market today, including the 2012 Toyota Prius and 2012 Honda Insight hybrids, as well as the 2012 Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. Now ZipCar customers in San Francisco can choose an even greener car to hire by the hour: the all-electric 2013 Honda Fit EV With the same 92 kilowatt, 189...
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2013 Honda CR-Z Hybrid Updates: Paris Auto Show Preview
Today seems to be the day when Paris Motor Show previews are coming thick and fast. Honda announced today that it will show an updated 2013 CR-Z two-seat hybrid hatchback at the Paris event, where media announcements kick off two weeks from yesterday. The 2013 Honda CR-Z has mildly refreshed...
John Voelcker -
2013 Honda Insight: The Forgotten Hybrid?
Some lead, others follow. And with poor sales and Toyota's Prius C now on the market as a head-to-head rival, the Honda Insight can definitely consider itself a follower. That's a shame, for those who remember the original Honda Insight. It may have looked quirky, cost a great deal and only seated...
Antony Ingram -
2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid: First Drive
Last week, Honda released the specs and photos for its 2014 Accord Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid. Now, we can talk about what it's like on the road. The short answer? Like the Ford C-Max Hybrid, it offers new and strong competition for a model of the well-established Toyota Prius--in this case, the...
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Honda CR-Z Hybrid Hatchback Update Teased
If you want a car that's both sporty and economical, there aren't many choices under $20,000. The Honda CR-Z is one of those choices, but both gearheads and green-minded buyers have criticized the car for failing to offer enough of what they want. As revealed by our sister site MotorAuthority...
Antony Ingram -
2014 Honda Accord Hybrid & Plug-In Hybrid: Photos, Details
Honda was the second carmaker in the world to launch a line of hybrid vehicles, though its compact and subcompact mild hybrids have long been overshadowed by Toyota's dominant Prius models. That may be about to change. Early next year, a new 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid--and equally significant, a 2014...
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Yesterday, Honda started production of its 2013 Accord. Due to go on sale in the U.S. this fall, it will be offered with a whole new range of engines and transmissions designed to make it the greenest Accord yet. Although the 2013 Honda Accord sedan and coupe will be offered with an all-new 3.5-liter V-6 engine mated to either a 6-speed automatic or 6-speed manual transmission, perhaps the most interesting engine will be its all-new 4-cylinder direct-injected engine. At 2.4-liters in capacity, the new Atkinson-cycle engine will be offered with either a 6-speed manual transmission, or a...
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2013 Honda Accord: First Images Of All-New Midsize Cars With Plug-In Hybrid Model
Used to be, cars were unveiled at auto shows. These days, their makers reveal them in little bits and pieces, just as the best ecdysiasts do (that's "strippers" to you). So today we have the first images of the redesigned 2013 Honda Accord sedan and coupe, the powerhouse mid-size line that competes...
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2013 Honda Fit EV: Video From First Drive Of All-Electric Car
Yesterday, Honda delivered its first Fit EV electric car to private buyers--or, more accurately, private lease customers, since the car isn't available for outright sale. Only 1,100 lucky lessors in a small handful of states will ever get behind the wheel of a 2013 Honda Fit EV, because for Honda...
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Honda Delivers First Privately-Leased 2013 Fit EV
Honda delivered its first coporately-leased all-electric Fit EV back in December 2010 to the city of Torrence, California, one month after announcing it at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show. Since then, Honda has continued deliveries of its Fit EV to fleet customers, but at the start of last week...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
2013 Honda Civic Hybrid Will Be Made In U.S., Not Japan
Thanks to the spiraling costs associated with building cars in Japan and shipping them to the U.S., Honda has announced that the 2013 Civic Hybrid will be made in the U.S. Currently made in Japan and shipped to customers in North America, the U.S. version of the four-door compact hybrid sedan will...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
2013 Honda Fit EV: First Drive Of Honda's All-Electric Car
The 2013 Honda Fit EV is a fun and well-executed little all-electric hatchback. It's quick, handles decently, gets the highest EPA efficiency rating of any vehicle on the market (118 MPGe), and its rated range of 82 miles is longer than that of the somewhat larger Nissan Leaf. Too bad you have very...
John Voelcker