Crossovers lead Honda April gains 5:00 pm U.S. ET | May 1, 2013 Stoked by record April results for the Honda CR-V and Acura RDX compact crossovers, American Honda sales increased 7 percent to 130,999 units last month.... Read More »
Virtues of '13 Civic: Low spiffs, high sales 12:01 am U.S. ET | April 29, 2013  Honda has turned off the incentive spigot for the 2013 Civic that arrived in January -- and so far, so good. The revamped car is winning over consumers who are looking for more than just the deal of the week.... Read More »
Accavitti sees American Honda's U.S. sales rising 6% in April 12:01 am U.S. ET | April 25, 2013  Honda's sales in the United States should increase by more than 6 percent in April, a top executive said Wednesday. Separately, GM CEO Dan Akerson said he sees April sales rising at a similar rate as the previous month, when they increased 3 percent.... Read More »
FINAL ASSEMBLY Is Acura's ILX a loser? Or doing its Civic duty? 12:01 am U.S. ET | April 22, 2013  American Honda's plant in Greensburg, Ind., built just 91 units of the Acura ILX entry-luxury sedan that debuted last summer. So does Honda have an out-and-out flop on its hands?... Read More »
Accord fuels Honda gains in March 4:40 pm U.S. ET | April 2, 2013  Boosted by strong Accord sales and new Acura products, American Honda's March sales of 136,038 units rose 7 percent over last March's numbers.... Read More »
NEWS ANALYSIS Side-by-side Civics: The chaotic Honda sell-off 12:01 am U.S. ET | March 11, 2013  A proper sell-down of an aging nameplate is almost seamless on the showroom floor. But reality gets in the way sometimes. Take the Honda Civic.... Read More »
Honda needs more time to turn around Europe businessMarch 8, 2013 14:15 CET  Honda will need more time to turn around its European business. “We want to be profitable within three years, by 2016,” Honda Europe President Manabu Nishimae said. Last year, Nishimae said Honda would be profitable in Europe starting in its 2013-2014 business year. The Japanese automaker has not made money in Europe since 2007.... Read More »
Honda, Volvo models get high marks in new overlap crash tests 4:05 pm U.S. ET | March 7, 2013  Safety enhancements helped Honda and Volvo earn top safety picks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The 2013 Honda Civic, the first small car to achieve a “good” rating in the institute's new small overlap test, was fortified with the second generation of Honda's advanced compatibility body (ACE II) structure. The two- and four-door models both earned the rating.... Read More »
Strong Accord sales can't overcome Civic transition for Honda 4:17 pm U.S. ET | March 1, 2013 American Honda's February sales fell 2 percent, as rare slumps by such volume models as the Civic, CR-V and Odyssey offset a strong month for the redesigned Accord.... Read More »
Honda's Europe problems extend beyond market slump, analysts sayFeb. 11, 2013 06:01 CET  Honda is cutting jobs in the booming UK auto market because it says there are no signs that Europe's car sales slump will end soon. Analysts believe Honda's problems go beyond the slump, especially since rival Nissan continues to add workers and production at its UK factory.... Read More »
How Honda hustled to redo Civic 12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 7, 2013  Jay Guzowski was getting more nervous by the day. As senior product planner for the redesign of the 2012 Honda Civic, Guzowski was shepherding the compact car from design freeze to market. But as he listened to others around the American Honda conference table -- with a year to go before the car's on-sale date -- he heard a disturbing refrain: The upcoming Civic was not good enough.... Read More »
RUSHING TO RESCUE THE CIVIC Civic gets 3rd launch in under 2 years 12:01 am U.S. ET | Jan. 7, 2013  Trying to build momentum behind the midcycle freshening of its core compact car, Honda is launching the Civic for the third time in 20 months. This time, the campaign's focus is on the company's quest for continuous improvement.... Read More »
Honda launches Civic campaign -- again 3:03 pm U.S. ET | Jan. 2, 2013  Trying to build momentum behind the midcycle freshening of its core compact car, Honda is launching the Civic with a new advertising campaign for the third time in 20 months. This time, the campaign's focus is on Honda's quest for continuous improvement. The commercials talk about how Honda improved the Civic for 2013, leaving unsaid the shortcomings of the 2012 model.... Read More »
Accord helps Honda rebound from Civic jeers 12:34 am U.S. ET | Dec. 18, 2012  Honda Motor Co., hit by Consumer Reports' stinging review for its Civic small car last year, got high marks for the revamped 2013 Accord that the magazine said ranks among the market's best mid-sized cars.... Read More »
FINAL ASSEMBLY Civic's interior no longer inferior 12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 3, 2012  Honda went all out to make amends after critics panned the garish interior of the redesigned 2012 Civic. Instead of waiting three years for the midcycle freshening, wholesale changes were made in just 19 months.... Read More »
MARK RECHTIN Honda saves the Civic 3:36 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 29, 2012  The interior treatment of Honda's current Civic was so panned by critics that the company went on a crash course to fix it. Rather than wait the traditional three model years to give the car a midcycle change, Honda made wholesale changes to the Civic just 19 months into its product cycle.... Read More »
Honda Civic's interior makeover debuts in L.A. 12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 19, 2012  Eighteen months after the redesigned 2012 Civic's interior layout and materials were greeted with a chorus of boos, Honda engineers are back with the fix.... Read More »
Honda gives first look at redone '13 Civic 9:00 am U.S. ET | Nov. 12, 2012  Just 18 months after the Civic's 2012 model year redesign hit the market, Honda is launching a mid-cycle change for the compact sedan and coupe. The 2012 Civic's interior layout and materials were widely panned by critics at the time, although the nameplate has continued to sell well.... Read More »
Honda sales continue climb on Accord, Civic gains 2:32 pm U.S. ET | Nov. 1, 2012  As its outgoing 2012 Accord was being replaced by the ramping up of the redesigned 2013 model, American Honda reported a 9 percent sales increase in October. The Accord led Honda sales with 28,349 units, up 26 percent. Honda had dealer stair-step and regional fleet incentives in place to close out the old model.... Read More »
Gap grows between vehicle sales and Consumer Reports' recommendations 1:36 pm U.S. ET | Oct. 31, 2012  Models such as VW's Passat and Honda's Civic, which lost Consumer Reports' coveted recommended status in August 2011, are among some of the biggest gainers in the United States auto market this year. The disconnect shows that buyers can be more forgiving in showrooms than testers are in labs as industrywide quality gains bring automakers closer to parity.... Read More »
Toyota says Camry sure to win 11th straight U.S. best-selling car title 3:56 pm U.S. ET | Oct. 26, 2012  Toyota says its Camry is certain to win the best-selling car title in the United States for the 11th straight year. With slightly more than two months left in 2012, the Camry's nearly 67,000-unit lead over the second-place Honda Accord is insurmountable, said Rick LoFaso, Toyota corporate manager for car marketing.... Read More »
Toyota Prius line becomes top-selling vehicle in Calif. 12:01 am U.S. ET | Oct. 19, 2012  Toyota's expanded Prius hybrid lineup has surged past the Honda Accord and Civic, and Toyota Camry, to become the best-selling vehicle line this year in California, the biggest United States auto market.... Read More »
Honda dangles $3,000 gift card to buyers of natural gas Civic 3:52 pm U.S. ET | Oct. 9, 2012  American Honda, taking advantage of high gasoline prices in some parts of the country to pitch alternative fuels, is offering a $3,000 card to buyers of the compressed natural gas-powered Honda Civic.... Read More »
Honda Civic set ablaze in Shanghai as anti-Japan protests spread 9:56 am U.S. ET | Sept. 14, 2012 Honda Motor said a person burned a Civic in front of one of its dealerships in Shanghai on Thursday as tensions escalate between Japan and China over the sovereignty of an island group in the South China Sea.... Read More »
Pricing, incentives key to Honda Accord's success in tough U.S. market 12:01 am U.S. ET | Sept. 8, 2012  Honda needs the next generation of its bread-and-butter mid-sized car, the Accord, to be a hit in the United States, and pricing and incentives may play a key role in a tough mid-sized sedan market.... Read More »
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