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CARS & CONCEPTS

Honda to return to F1 racing

12:01 am U.S. ET | May 20, 2013
Honda will return to Formula One as an engine supplier after exiting the racing series in 2008. The Japanese automaker will provide engines to its former F1 racing partner McLaren starting in 2015.... Read More »

 

CARS & CONCEPTS

NSX's electric motors will help handling

12:01 am U.S. ET | May 20, 2013
Technical details on the Acura NSX coming in 2015 are scarce, but large-project leader Ted Klaus offered a few nuggets last week as Honda officials announced that the sports car will be built in Ohio.... Read More »

 

Acura seeks image boost by reviving NSX in Ohio

12:01 am U.S. ET | May 20, 2013
Honda officials hope the revived Acura NSX, an advanced hybrid sports car scheduled to arrive in 2015, will strengthen Acura's luxury footing. Honda said last week that it will invest $70 million in Ohio to assemble the NSX.... Read More »

 

Ford to shift Fiesta output to Thailand from Mexico, report says

4:07 pm U.S. ET | May 16, 2013
Ford, moving to ease production constraints in North America, plans to shift output of the Fiesta subcompact from Mexico to Thailand in 2016, The Detroit News reported today.... Read More »

 

Honda returns to F1 racing as engine supplier

3:49 am U.S. ET | May 16, 2013
Honda will return to Formula One racing as an engine supplier to help develop vehicle technology after exiting the racing series in 2008.... Read More »

 

Honda to convert Ohio seat plant for Acura NSX output

11:00 am U.S. ET | May 14, 2013
Honda said today it will invest $70 million to convert a former seat plant here to assemble the next-generation Acura NSX. The plant will be staffed with about 100 specially trained production workers and equipped with robots to build the gasoline-electric hybrid sports car, Honda said.... Read More »

 

Progress in supplier relations stalls

12:01 am U.S. ET | May 13, 2013
Automakers in North America failed to make progress in improving relations with suppliers over the past year, an annual study says.... Read More »

 

Falling yen lifts outlook for Japanese

12:01 am U.S. ET | May 13, 2013
For five years, a rising yen undermined Japanese automakers' profits. Now the currency's sudden weakening has delivered dramatic gains, especially in the January-March quarter.... Read More »

 

In boon for Japan's automakers, yen tumbles over milestone

10:21 pm U.S. ET | May 9, 2013
Toyota's half-decade of fighting the yen is over, at least for now. The weakening yen breached 100 against the dollar in U.S. trading on Thursday, paving the way for Japanese automakers to emerge from an unprecedented stretch where the currency's appreciation roiled their ability to sell cars overseas at a profit.... Read More »

 

Honda signals it may expand CVTs

12:01 am U.S. ET | May 6, 2013
Honda's plan to produce continuously variable transmissions at a new plant in Celaya, Mexico, hints that more Honda models sold here could be fitted with CVTs.... Read More »

 

Honda plans $470 million transmission plant in Mexico

2:11 pm U.S. ET | May 2, 2013
Honda plans to build a $470 million factory in Celaya, Mexico, to assemble continuously variable transmissions. The factory will operate alongside a plant under construction that's scheduled to build the next-generation Fit hatchback and a Fit-based crossover.... Read More »

 

Mid-sized sedans, hot in 2012, cool off

5:11 pm U.S. ET | May 1, 2013
For the third straight month, a different car has topped the giant mid-sized sedan market, a segment that has significantly slowed this year as competition intensifies. Sales declined in April for seven of the 10 top mid-sized cars. Overall, mid-sized car sales fell 1 percent in the month and are up just 2 percent so far this year.... Read More »

 

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 »

 

Honda recalls almost 46,000 Fits in U.S., Canada

11:04 am U.S. ET | April 29, 2013
Honda is recalling almost 46,000 Fit small cars in the United States and Canada to fix a problem with the electronic stability control system software.... Read More »

 

'CHASING THAT CRAZY NUMBER'

Dealers grouse that stair-step plans are causing more pain than last year

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 29, 2013
Stair-step programs, the incentive plans that drive many dealers crazy, are causing more grumbling than they were a year ago. Several major retailers, including some of the largest dealership groups in the country, say stair-step programs are worse than last spring.... 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 »

 

Honda sees record sales; N.A. pace slows

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 29, 2013
Honda Motor Co. expects North America to be its slowest-growing region in the current fiscal year that began April 1. But executives say U.S. sales should still reach an all-time high. North American sales will rise just 4 percent to 1.8 million vehicles this fiscal year, Honda predicted.... Read More »

 

Honda quarterly profit rises 6.6% on strong U.S. sales, falling yen

April 26, 2013 09:00 CET
Honda posted a 6.6 percent rise in quarterly net profit, helped by strong U.S. sales of its Accord and CR-V models.... 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 »

 

2013 SHANGHAI AUTO SHOW

China's Great Wall targets U.S. sales by 2015

1:40 pm U.S. ET | April 22, 2013
Great Wall, China's largest SUV maker, expects to begin selling SUVs in the United States around 2015, possibly making it the first Chinese automaker to enter the American market in volume, the president of the company says.... Read More »

 

Transplants keep rolling in N. America

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 22, 2013
The rise of foreign automakers in North America gained huge momentum during the dark days of the recession, accelerating the decline of Detroit 3 dominance. Today 39 percent of all auto company employees in North America work for companies other than the Detroit 3, according to an Automotive News survey.... 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 »

 

SAE panel: Will people trust self-driving cars?

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 22, 2013
Consumer acceptance could be the biggest barrier to autonomous vehicles, one expert said at the SAE World Congress in Detroit last week.... Read More »

 

Honda recalls over 225,000 SUVs and minivans in U.S., Canada

11:17 am U.S. ET | April 19, 2013
Honda is recalling about 225,300 SUVs and minivans in the United States and Canada to replace a part that if not operating could allow the driver to shift out of park without depressing the brake pedal.... Read More »

 

AutoNation Q1 earnings soar; acquisitions continue

6:30 am U.S. ET | April 18, 2013
AutoNation said first-quarter net income rose 14 percent to $83 million, up from $73 million a year ago. With profits up in all categories of its business during the first quarter, particularly finance and insurance and parts and service, AutoNation is snapping up more dealerships.... Read More »