Honda has given the Insight a minor facelift for 2012 and got its CO2 emissions below 100g/k, promising free VED and no congestion charge. We’re still not convinced that Honda has its heart in the Insight Hybrid, but they have no choice other than to present some semblance of competition to the stranglehold Toyota has […]
Apparently, the 2012 Honda Civic will be quiet & refined
Honda are continuing to tease the 2012 Honda Civic ahead of its Frankfurt launch, this time with information on its refinement. As we said on the last story we ran about the 2012 Honda Civic, Honda are taking its launch very seriously, And they’re doing the normal new car tease too, but in a very […]
2012 Honda Civic 2.2-litre i-DTEC with just 110g/km CO2
Honda are to make the 2012 Honda Civic cleaner and more powerful with just 110g/km CO2 and 10bhp extra. Honda are taking the launch of the new Civic for 2012 properly seriously, and looking to make it a properly good alternative to stuff like the Focus and Golf. That means the 2012 Honda Civic is […]
Honda CR-Z Mugen RR – it’s the Japanese version
Mugen in Japan has emulated Mugen UK by producing the Honda CR-Z Mugen RR, a tarted and titivated CR-Z Hybrid. We’ve reported quite a bit on Mugen UK’s efforts to sprinkle fairy dust on the Honda CR-Z Hybrid to turn it in to the sort of hybrid that would appeal to a keen driver. And now it’s the turn of Mugen in […]
2012 Honda Civic: First detail, photo and video
Honda is playing a bit of tease with the 2012 Honda Civic ahead of the Frankfurt Motor show. We have photos and Video of a disguised Civic. If you think about Honda cars the first car that probably springs to mind is the Honda Civic because the Civic seems to have been around for ever. In fact, the 2012 […]
2012 Honda CR-V Concept previews new CR-V
Honda has revealed a single image of the Honda CR-V Concept which, apart from a few glitzy add-ons, will be the new 2012 Honda CR-V. Update: Honda has been in touch to say that the new, fourth-generation CR-V will go on sale in the U.S. by the end of 2011, and in Europe in Autumn 2012. The Honda CR-V is a bit of an odd […]
Mugen Honda CR-Z Hybrid Video ahead of Goodwood
Honda has released video of the Mugen Honda CR-Z out playing ahead of a public reveal at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in a few weeks. We reported back in April that Honda had turned to Mugen to see if they could inject anything in to the CR-Z Hybrid that might make it even remotely […]
Honda CR-Z Mugen: First photos revealed
Honda has revealed the first photos of the Honda CR-Z Mugen ahead of its reveal at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July. We got news a couple of months ago that Honda were getting Mugen to do a tuning job on the CR-Z Hybrid and put together a ‘Concept’ for this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. But it seemed […]
Mugen Honda CR-Z to be supercharged
The Mugen Honda CR-Z special planned to show at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year will get a supercharger and deliver 200bhp – and still be a hybrid. We’re not the biggest fans of the Honda CR-Z, despite it being a decent-looking car. It’s a car born out of the necessity for Honda to […]
Honda cuts UK production by 50 per cent
Honda (UK) has announced that an unreliable supply chain of components from Japan after the recent disaster necessitates a cut in UK production of 50%. Japan is slowly recovering from the earthquake and tsunami that hit on 11th March. Or at least its production is. Honda has revealed that it expects its Japanese plants to resume production of 11th […]