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2013 Honda Civic nabs top safety marks with IIHS and NHTSA
Already a big favorite with buyers, the 2013 Honda Civic has made an equally positive impression on the folks at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The 2013 Civic Sedan and Coupe have become the first — and to date only — small cars tested to roll off [...]
Five cars pass new, tougher crash test
Larger vehicles generally hold up better than smaller cars in crashes, so it’s significant that the Honda Civic compact was able to get the top score on the new test. The revised 2013 Honda Civic is the first compact car to earn a Top Safety Pick “Plus” designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. [...]
2013 Honda Civic Sedan and Coupe First Small Cars to Achieve TOP SAFETY PICK+ Rating in IIHS Safety Testing
SOURCE American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Honda leads industry with four TOP SAFETY PICK+ rated vehicles TORRANCE, Calif., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The new 2013 Honda Civic Sedan and Coupe have received the highest available safety rating of TOP SAFETY PICK+ from the Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). This recognition makes the Civic Sedan [...]
2013 Consumers Report Top 10 Picks – Honda dominates in 3 categories.
Washington — Seven Japanese automakers led by Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. topped Consumer Reports’ annual auto rankings of 26 brands. Fourteenth place was the best that any Detroit automaker fared. The magazine unveiled its influential 2013 annual auto ratings issue Tuesday in Washington, saying Toyota’s Lexus unit was the top overall brand, [...]
Honda and Acura Rank Highest in ALG’s 5th Annual Canadian Residual Value Awards
TORONTO, Feb. 13, 2013 – Canadian International Auto Show – ALG, the industry benchmark for vehicle values and a leading provider of automotive insights, today announced the results of its 5th annual Residual Value Awards, with Honda and Acura earning the awards for top Mainstream and Premium brands, respectively. Honda returns to the top ranking [...]
Awards and Accolades Articles
Honda has compiled a huge list of awards, accolades, and ratings for Honda’s world class vehicles. View Awards, Accolades & Ratings Article Information Date Posted: February 15, 2013
Honda Automobiles Receive ‘Best Resale Value’
TORRANCE, Calif., Nov., 27, 2012 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. received six Best Resale Value Awards from trusted vehicle valuation source Kelley Blue Book. The all-new 2013 Honda Accord, the restyled 2013 Honda Civic and Civic Si, as well as the 2013 Honda Fit each earned awards in their respective segments for projected resale value [...]
Honda’s Receive 2013 Top Safety Pick Award
Top Safety Pick recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in moderate overlap frontal, side, rollover and rear crashes. Honda Accord, Fit, Civic, CR-V, Crosstour, Odyssey, Ridgeline and Pilot all received the 2013 Top Safety Pick Award! Read Now Article Information Date Posted: January 15, 2013
Honda Civic and Honda Accord take 2 of the 2013 Car and Driver 10 Best Cars
Car and Driver magazine has named the all-new 2013 Honda Accord and the Honda Fit as winners of its prestigious and highly competitive annual ‘10Best Cars’ award. Now in its ninth generation, the Accord has achieved ‘10Best Cars’ status 27 times in the 31 years that Car and Driver editors have been conducting the competition, [...]
Honda Accord rates highest on new crash test
Honda Accord, Suzuki Kizashi rate highest on new crash test; 2 Toyotas rated poor WASHINGTON — Thirteen mid-sized cars have earned high marks on the insurance industry’s newest frontal-crash test, but a pair of Toyota models tested fared worse than the rest. Honda used an approach known as ACE, or advanced compatibility engineering, to dissipate [...]
Honda has been named the most reliable make for the seventh year in a row.
It has an image of hard-wearing toughness. But Britain’s Land Rover is the least reliable car on the road, according to a study of used vehicles. Land Rover’s luxury-car stable-mate Jaguar also scores badly. By contrast, Honda has been named the most reliable make for the seventh year in a row. The study found 71 [...]
Toronto Honda Manager “Canoe-utes” to Work with a Canadian Olympic Legend
Toronto Honda’s Fixed Operations Manager, Bryan Smith, would definitely fit into the “very Canadian” category as he and his two friends, Brent Jackson and Mike Lane decided to canoe to work on Thursday, July 5th, 2012. Bryan coined the phrase “canoe-ute” to describe this unusual way of getting to work. The trip involved portaging through [...]
Honda Pilot Receives “Family Car of the Year” Award From Cars.com
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. announced that the 2012 Honda Pilot, which includes a wide range of upgrades, received the Cars.com “Family Car of the Year” award and was described as “the perfect SUV for buyers who want to comfortably haul the entire family and all of their gear” for its versatile and family-friendly attributes and its fuel efficiency improvement – making it a real good value.
Now in its Ninth Generation, the Honda Civic Continues to Fly High
In 2010, Honda sold 260,218 eighth-generation Civics, or more units than BMW sold, well, all told (220,113). In fact, Civic sales were nearly as much as that of the complete BMW group (266,069), which includes Mini and Rolls-Royce. Suffice it to say, many an automaker would love to enjoy entire portfolio sales comparable to that [...]
Civic Mentality Helps Create Winning Spirit
“When your team is leading the league, you don’t want to mess too much with the line-up.” That’s the case with Honda and the 2012 Civic. Honda’s made some changes that won’t shock its current fans while potentially picking up some new supporters along the way. This league has a lot of players, but Civic [...]
REINVENTING CANADA’S #1 CAR…2012 HONDA CIVIC
For decades, Hondas have pretty much sold themselves on the usual left-brain merits of durability, reliability, safety and resale value. Really, Honda’s sales strategy has been more about finding ways to let people buy the cars as opposed to selling them with discounts, low-interest financing and savvy showroom tactics. Sure, Honda and its luxury [...]
Vehicle Comparison: The 2011 Honda Odyssey vs. the 2011 Toyota Sienna
Classic minivan duel shows Odyssey coming out on top. Talk about a grudge match. The Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna minivans are both all-new for 2011, upping the ante in a battle for supremacy that has been going on for years. Both are superb family vehicles with cavernous interiors and oodles of flexibility, but only [...]
Honda FCX Clarity Top Gear Review
Information on the Honda FCX Clarity
Everything You Need To Know About Winter Tires
Winter is just around the corner. In fact, there was snow in Barrie just last week. So there’s no time to waste. Just about the most important thing you can do to prepare for the next five or six months is to put winter tires on your vehicle. To help you make the decision on [...]
10 tips to make you go in the snow
With the colder temperatures of late fall and winter just around the corner, it’s time to prepare for the inevitable and get both you and your vehicle ready for a distinctive season of driving. Winter conditions are unique and winter driving requires specialized equipment and techniques. The old adage of “better safe than sorry” lends [...]
Winter tires tested in steamy Florida
FORT WALTON BEACH, FLA.—It’s 35C this summer day on the Florida panhandle. The sun is beating down relentlessly. People are swimming in the warm ocean nearby — and I’m driving on winter tires in the snow. Yeah, that’s about the same look I had when they told me where I was going. The source of [...]
Now manufacturers are making ‘all-weather’ tires
Why were all-season tires so bad in snow and ice? Why were winter tread patterns so noisy on pavement? Why did winter tires degrade so quickly in summer driving? Was there a way to service people who really had no room for two sets of tires? The huge dissatisfaction with all-season tires in winter has [...]
Why you need four winter tires
This is the time of year when the same discussion is heard in many offices, coffee shops and homes: should I put winter tires on my vehicle? The answer is a definitive and resounding “Yes,” if you want maximum safety. Whatever you have on your car, high performance summer tires or all-season tires, you will [...]
Why winter tires? There are many reasons
We all like to save a little money, but scrimping on the number of winter tires on your car is not an option. Winter driving is all about traction, we all agree on that. But traction goes beyond just the power to go forward. Traction also includes the ability to stop and turn. In my [...]
The Time To Buy Your Winter Tires Is Now
Now is the time to buy winter tires. Not tomorrow, not next week and certainly not next month. The reason for this is that by mid-November, there will be nary a winter tire in the manufacturers’ warehouses. All of the 2010 winter tires will be at dealers and tire distributors. The racks will be empty [...]
Honda CR-V
Since its introduction to the North American market in 1996, the Honda CR-V has been a consistently strong seller for the Japanese company and, as things turned out, one of the most reliable cars on the road. In 2007, Consumer Reports ranked it as the second-most-dependable compact SUV on the market, and it is sold [...]
2010 Civic Si Coupe
Press the fast-forward pedal on Honda’s Civic Si and the soundtrack amps up and the view through the windscreen accelerates towards you. Twist the leather-wrapped “controller” and your sight picture pivots fluidly as the scenery flashes past in a seamless streaming of images without lingering in your peripheral vision. Wow, you think, this is cool, [...]
The Best Car I Ever Owned
When I was a little boy, I imagined my 30s as an automotive golden age: I’d have a good job, a garage filled with shining tools, and a cool sports car – a Porsche 911 with race suspension, maybe, or a Shelby 427 Cobra. But as I turned 33, I found myself gripped in the [...]
2010 Accord Sedan
Choosing a family sedan is a daunting task. There are way too many choices, including the Honda Accord, Nissan Altima, Toyota Camry, Chevrolet Malibu, Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata and the Volkswagen Jetta – to name just a few. So when it comes to narrowing down your choice, a good option is to turn to the [...]
2007 Fit 3 Year Test Drive
Although it debuted in Canada in 2007, the Fit wasn’t exactly a brand-new model. It had actually been in Japan since 2001, and was sold throughout the world, where it was and is known as the Jazz. In Japan, it’s been one of the most successful models the company has ever put forward. Available in [...]
Honda – The Power Of Dreams
Isn’t it nice when things just work? We thought you might like this commercial.
Honda Civic Top Selling Car
Honda Civic Retains Honour as Canada's Top-Selling Car Honda Civic Is Canada's Top-Selling Car for a 12th Consecutive Year. With sales of 62,654 units in 2009, Honda Civic retained its honour as Canada's top-selling passenger car for a 12th consecutive year. Since 1973, more than 1.5 million Honda Civics have been sold in Canada, making [...]
Honda Insight tops Japan sales
First time hybrid takes top spot TOKYO–Honda's Insight, billed as the cheapest gas-electric hybrid on the market, ranked as the top-selling vehicle in Japan for April – the first time a hybrid has clinched that spot. Honda Motor Co. has pitched the Insight as an affordable hybrid though such vehicles have a bigger price tag [...]
2010 Honda Insight
Honda Canada is waiting until Earth Day, April 22, to put its new 2010 Insight on sale, but back in Japan, it’s on sale and demand is soaring for the cheapest hybrid on the market. Honda received more than 5,000 orders in less than a week once the Insight began rolling into Japanese showrooms on [...]
Honda most recommended by Consumer Reports
Which automaker builds the best cars? The word “best” can be taken to mean many different things, but when it comes to predicted reliability Consumer Reports picks Honda as number one. This said Subaru and Toyota prove worthy of your attention too, with the former earning a “Recommended” ranking for every model it sells. The [...]
First Drive 2010 Honda Insight
Scottsdale, Arizona — Honda has recommissioned its Insight name for an entirely new hybrid, one intended for a group thus far shunning this mode of environmentally fashionable mobility. Gen Y folks, the mid-20s crowd, are mostly single, entry-professionals who spend $18,000–$22,000 for their new cars. They're environmentally with it, but hitherto seemingly priced out of [...]
Simon Whitfield prefers his Honda Fit
He's a superstar athlete who scored a silver medal in the men's triathlon at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. But Simon Whitfield is best remembered for his gold medal win at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney — where he came from behind after a crash in the bike race to steal the top spot. [...]
I wanted a car that lasts forever
She's the only trampoline gymnast to win a medal at every Olympic game in which she has competed. She captured silver and carried the Canadian flag at the closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Clearly, Karen Cockburn is predictable and reliable — just like her wheels. That's why the gymnast still drives the first [...]
Honda piles more into Pilot
Honda has given its Pilot new direction for 2009, including a brand new top-of-the-line Touring edition. The second generation of the SUV has more power and greater economy, along with a bag full of new technology and greater standard content. Better yet, the MSRP hasn’t changed despite the new features. Built on a new platform, [...]
Honda Fit, purely functional and completely affordable
It is possible — no, I should say "easy" — to carry an adult bicycle in the 2009 Honda Fit. Between the front and back seats. No big deal, you say? Think about it. I said between the seats, not behind in the cargo area. All you need to do is take off the bike's [...]
2009 Honda Fit: fuel-sipper grows up
Honda is holding the 2009 Fit's technical briefing in Graham's loft in the hopes it will bring me a greater sense of his lifestyle and needs. Perhaps so, but it has also succeeded in driving home just how much of a packrat I am in comparison to Graham, whose tastefully decorated, uncluttered pad could easily [...]
Honda revives Insight to take on Prius
Honda will revive the Insight name when it introduces a hybrid concept next month at the Paris Auto Show that the company says will be the least-expensive gas-electric hybrid on the market when it reaches dealers next spring. The original two-seat Insight was only available in North America for the 2000 to 2006 model years [...]
Recession Proof Cars: Honda Fit and CRV
While we're all griping about yet another handout to the least-deserving, worst-performing businesses in this country, there's something especially galling about this one to many of us who cover the auto biz. See, while we often get accused of rooting against the domestics, that's a downright lie. The problem isn't that American carmakers can't build [...]
