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At the upcoming tuning show in Tokyo, Honda Company promises to provide some interesting models. One of them will be “charged” hechtbek Honda CR-Z, known as TS-1X concept.

No details about it is not yet known, but the available photos can be seen that TS-1X will receive a modified front end, extended side skirts, rear wing on the roof and painted in black matt body.

In addition, there is promise to show tuning Sports Modulo NSX coupe and a racing HSV-010 GT, which is located under the hood of 3,4-liter V8, an outstanding 500 hp

Recall that at the Detroit auto show held in the Japanese showed a prototype of a new Honda Civic, which soon would come to replace the current model.

Once is not custom, this Caradisiac you test a vehicle that was never released in France … In fact, the Honda FCX Clarity will be distributed in California and Japan. Explanation: these are the only places where one can find sufficient Read the rest of this entry »

This little car is making big news, most of which you’ve probably heard before. But it’s not that the hybrid-powered Insight employs new ideas. After all, if you’ve been to a golf course in your lifetime, you know that electric cars have been around for a long time. And gasoline-powered cars have been around for even longer. What makes the Honda Insight remarkable, then, is that it puts the two types of together in the same car. At a good price, and at precisely the right time. Read the rest of this entry »

The Japanese manufacturer Honda has maintained the suspense about its new coupe concept Honda Urban P-NUT in recent weeks.

He finally unveils the Los Angeles Auto Show 2009!

Honda P-NUT (Personal-Neo for Urban Transport) is presented as a vehicle futuristic ultra compact and sophisticated, driving in urban areas. The engine is placed at the rear. Read the rest of this entry »

The Japanese manufacturer Honda has been absent from the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009 for financial reasons.

By cons, it will present at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show (October 24 to November 4) and expects to catch up by unveiling a range of concepts and production vehicles and motor cycles.

Here are his models will be exhibited in Read the rest of this entry »

The copy of the CR-Z featured on the Honda stand at the Tokyo Motor Show (public days from October 24 to November 4) is still at the prototype stage, but it is very close to the final model to be marketed the next year. Compared to the previous concept car of 2007, this version close to the production underwent some minor aesthetic interior and received a more realistic and less futuristic.

This sport is a small green four-seater coupe, powered by the IMA hybrid technology from Honda. The program, therefore, a hybrid gas-electric heating block with 1.5-liter, but the performances have not been sent.

Honda said it will cut standard manual transmission or six reports, a new feature on a hybrid car.

The Honda CR-Z will be released in February 2010 in Japan, and the second half of the year in the United States and Europe. Honda’s goal to sell 500,000 hybrids a year worldwide from 2011.

We’re grasping for grab handles and straining the safety belt, trying to keep our torso planted firmly in the driver’s bucket as Honda’s new mid-size sport-utility wagon — Pilot — bumps and grinds, scampers and scoots over one formidable obstacle after another on a demanding off-road course carved into rich Carolina soil on outback reaches of the vast Biltmore Estate in Asheville.

There are steep grades to scale, deep trenches to cross, log-like telephone poles to roll over, boulders to bump and tire-sucking mud to wade.

The tall stance of Pilot — with a ground clearance of eight inches and the ability to ford water up to 19 inches deep — allows this wagon to trudge over a lot of lumpy ground far from the comfort of a paved road. Read the rest of this entry »

Only a quick glance at Honda’s new cubistic crate on wheels will tell you this isn’t another tot-toting sport-utility vehicle.

True, it stands rather tall in a boxy format like any other SUV and there are four rounds of rubber on the ground as well as a pair of doors on each flat flank for access to the passenger compartment, plus a cargo gate at the tail.But, it’s so flat, so angular, so squared.

And there are all of those chip-resistant composite panels. They’re flared in arching rings around the wheelwells, squared in caps across the front corners and wrapped over top rear quarters.

This thing looks like it came out of a design school for armored personnel carriers or UPS delivery vehicles, yet the automotive stylists at American Honda proclaim the new vehicle as must-have transportation for the college crowd and sand-and-surf or snowboarder and X-sport sets.

You can call it the Element, as in elementary.

Best described as a mobile dorm room, it’s a basic vehicle with a cavernous wash-and-wear cabin that’s flexible and convertible in a design that accommodates up to four riders and all sorts of packed gear. Read the rest of this entry »

Honda Civic Hybrid looks and acts conventional but it’s not

By Bob Plunkett

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — We notice nothing unusual about the compact-class sedan delivered curbside by a valet at the Little Rock airport parking deck: With four doors and two rows of seats in the cabin, this car looks entirely conventional with its low-cast prow, aerodynamic roofline and the notchback-style truck in back. Read the rest of this entry »

Honda Accord as coupe or sedan looks strong in a bold design

By Bob Plunkett

DEARBORN, Mich. — After five years atop best-seller charts with products based on the sixth generation of designs from 1998, Honda’s mid-size Accord series rolls out in completely new format for 2003 models.

Configured as a stylish four-door sedan and slinky two-door coupe, these new Accords reveal sculptured exterior shapes, enriched yet efficient new powertrains and expansive cabin layouts providing more room for riders and more standard equipment. Read the rest of this entry »