Filed under: Concept Cars, Japan, Videos, Honda Honda is looking toward the future. A new Japanese ad for the company has made its way to YouTube featuring some of the most important models in the automaker’s past. From lowly bicycles and small-displacement motorcycles to the ever-sexy 1965 RA272 F1 car and perfectly proportioned S800, the ghosts of yesterday... 

Filed under: Motorsports, Chevrolet, Honda Borg-Warner makes the turbos for all three IndyCar engine suppliers, Chevrolet, Honda and Lotus, but the engine makers provide two compressor shrouds of their own design for homolgation by the series. Honda’s singe-turbo engine is down on power compared to Chevrolet’s and Lotus’ twin-turbo motors,... 

Filed under: Safety, Technology, Honda It happens every time traffic gets too heavy and starts to slow: One inattentive driver panics and slams on his brakes, triggering a chain reaction that leads to a complete traffic stoppage a few dozen cars behind. If everyone could just slow down, pay attention, and maintain an even speed, we could all get where we’re... 

Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Honda, Design/Style Do you spend a lot of time pinning your favorite things on Pinterest? Honda may be looking to hand you $500 as part of the company’s first campaign on the social outlet. Honda is singling out active Pinterest users and handing some of them $500 to indulge in a “Pintermission” to... 

Filed under: Concept Cars, Sedan, China, Hatchback, Honda, Beijing Motor Show, Design/Style Honda has used the 2012 Beijing Motor Show to launch two new concept cars that it says “show the direction of mass-production models Honda will introduce to the market next year.” First up is the imaginatively named Concept C. According to the automaker, ‘C’... 

Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Government/Legal, Honda Heather Peters beat Honda. A small claims court in California awarded Ms. Peters $9,867 because it agreed that her Honda Civic Hybrid failed to deliver the 50 mpg EPA rating Honda claimed it would. According to The Detroit News, Honda is appealing the decision, especially after the success of Peters’s... 

Filed under: BMW, Ford, GM, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen Forbes has measured the largest 100 companies in the world, and 10 automakers have made the list. This list is unique in that it measures the size of a company using a combination of sales, assets, profits and market value. Volkswagen was rated as the top automaker... 

Filed under: Car Buying, Acura, Honda Honda and Acura have had their fair share of issues over the last few years – from earthquakes, tsunamis and floods to important new models not being all that well received – but that hasn’t stopped them from claiming top honors in Edmunds’ 2012 Best Retained Value Awards. According to Edmunds, on... 

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising We loved the hilarious Super Bowl ad for the coming-some-day-but-not-anytime-soon Acura NSX starring Jerry Seinfeld, but we really wish it would have popped back onto our radar for a different reason than this. (Like a production announcement from Honda.) TMZ is reporting that when the commercial was cast, the ad the agency... 

Filed under: Motorsports, Chevrolet, Racing The Associated Press reports General Motors has pulled all 11 Chevrolet IndyCar engines from testing after racer James Hinchcliffe blew one during testing at Sonoma. GM evidently was concerned enough about the 10 other engines having similar problems that it decided to swap them all and face the resulting sanctions. Under...