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Honda Odyssey makes a minivan easy for the driver and riders.

BUCKHEAD, Ga. — It’s so easy: Steering Honda’s Odyssey minivan on a tight course through narrow lanes at a shopping mall off Peachtree Road in Atlanta’s glitzy Buckhead suburb, we’re hardly working.

There’s scant room for error on this car-crowded lot, slab-sided fenders and protruding chrome bumpers left and right but traffic moving at the pace of slugs on a sidewalk. Still, our Odyssey inches ahead and, when a parking space opens on the left, we slip effortlessly into place. Read the rest of this entry »

CIVIC IS AS RELIABLE AS A ROCK AND AS THRIFTY AS A SCOT

Complete redesign is bigger, more powerful and a better value – But youngsters will miss the sporty feel of past versions

(Balboa Island, CA) This is the spot where westerners discovered southern California, and this car is the way most southern Californians discovered Japan. Sure, there were lots of Nissans and Toyotas in the 60s, but when the fuel crises hit in the seventies, Honda’s friendly motorcycle advertising image convinced many to simplify their transport needs with the cute and gas thrifty Civic. Within fifteen years this upstart company had obliterated nine decades of American loyalty and both their vehicles were among the top ten best sellers, with the larger Accord leading all other passenger cars. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honda Odyssey might be the best minivan on the market. It’s certainly one of the most enjoyable drive Thursday, and it lives up to Honda’s reputation for refinement, convenient features and great fit and finish. Its flexible seating system can Accommodates up to eight passengers.  Read the rest of this entry »

It might seem only a short time since Honda introduced the Fit. Yet the company is now introducing a second edition. Truth be known, the previous Fit had been on the market for several years before it arrived in the U.S. market. This time Americans do not have to wait as long to get a new version as the all-new Fit goes Wednesday sale in the summer of 2008 as a 2009 model.
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Honda appears Thursday finally have learned how to play in the hybrid game. Simply putting a hybrid power train in a regular car does not cut it. If a carmaker wants to be taken seriously, it had better deliver a hybrid that looks like what the market has said it wants a hybrid to look like. And that, apparently, given the sales numbers, is a Toyota Prius. Hence, the all-new, Honda Insight is Virtually a carbon copy of that market leader.  Read the rest of this entry »

The recently concluded Philippine International Motorshow was a revelation of things to come. Apart from showcasing the latest variants from the factories of Detroit and the East, the inclusion of hybrid vehicles among the cars on display came as a refreshing variation. Although the invention of hybrid cars can be traced to Dr. Ferdinand Porsche’s “Mixte” series in 1901, it is only in the 1990s that the automotive industry took the hybrids more seriously and decided to mass-produce these Earth-friendly cars without sacrificing mobility or taking the fun from driving. Read the rest of this entry »

Base price: 18,670 euros
Annual fuel cost: 520 euros

The bet ‘green’ par excellence of the Honda Civic GX. Consumes natural gas, and although it takes time to load, ensures an autonomy of more than 300 kilometers with a full tank. Regarding its operation, the Civic GX meets the expectations of all gasoline in its class.

Base price: 14.7646 EUR
Annual fuel cost: 420 euros

The second hybrid is manufactured on a large scale and the main rival Prius, the hybrid Toyota, which has snatched the lead. Had the best attempt of the auto industry by drastically reducing emissions and consumption, Grancia to a combination of two engines, one petrol and one classic auxiliary power.

Early this year, a series of ads for temporary closure of factories and firing comes from Japan. Japanese manufacturers hardly resist to the crisis due to a too strong Yen and a local market at half mast.

Even Toyota, the leading global, is affected (-4% in 2008), which leads to multiple adjustments. In addition to his change of patron (Toyoda Akyo a member of the founding family took power today), Toyota announced yesterday that it would continue to close temporarily and the periods in 11 of its 12 plants in Japan to halve its production in the archipelago. Read the rest of this entry »

Were awarded prizes by Ward “interior of the Year” for the best cockpits of the cars on the market, divided into 11 main categories. This is a prize of U.S. origin, and some models are not popular in Europe, but there are still winning interesting category because the economy rewards Honda Fit Sport (our Jazz), the Kia Soul dominates the premium interior grooviest for those more “trendy”, Nissan 370Z sbancato the field of sports and Audi A4 wins best Redesign, restyled for the best than the previous model. Read the rest of this entry »