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LOS ANGELES: The Honda HR-V for the US is bigger and looks very different from the new HR-V that Malaysia will be getting soon. Over there, Honda is pitching the HR-V against the recently launched Toyota Corolla Cross and ...

Honda and GM expand EV partnership

DETROIT: General Motors and Honda Motor Co today said they will co-develop a series of electric vehicles based on a new global architecture, allowing production of millions of vehicles starting in 2027. The announcement expands on plans for GM ...

New managing director and CEO for Honda Malaysia

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia has announced the appointment of new managing director and chief executive officer Hironobu Yoshimura which took effect from April 1. Yoshimura replaced Madoka Chujo who has returned to Japan to assume a new role at ...

Civic is 1 millionth Honda produced in Malaysia

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia today celebrated an important chapter with the rollout of its 1 millionth car produced at its Pegoh plant in Alor Gajah, Melaka. The 1 millionth car was a red Civic. At the event, Honda Malaysia ...

New colours for Honda City and Accord

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia has introduced new colour options for its best-selling models – the City, and flagship Accord. Both models offer Meteoroid Gray Metallic colour that replaces the existing Modern Steel Metallic colour, while the City will also ...

Sony and Honda team up to develop and sell electric vehicles

Sony Vision-S 01 and Vision-S 02 electric vehicles are displayed during CES 2022 in Las Vegas, on Jan 5. — Reuters TOKYO: Japan’s Sony Corp and Honda Motor Co Ltd said today they would pair up to develop and ...

New Honda Odyssey begins from RM275,000

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia has unveiled the new Odyssey seven-seater multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) featuring updated styling along with improved safety and infotainment systems. Fully imported from Japan, the Odyssey comes with on-the-road without insurance but with 50% SST exemption price of ...

Honda Malaysia introduces Honda Certified Used Car

PETALING JAYA: Less than a week after announcing it would start a used car business , Honda Malaysia today announced the start of its Honda Certified Used Car (HCUC) programme that enables Malaysians to buy a verified, used Honda ...

Two new models coming as Honda pushes to sell 80,000 cars in 2022

KUALA LUMPUR: Honda Malaysia will be launching two new models this year as well as expand the application of e:HEV, VTEC Turbocharged, Honda SENSING and Honda CONNECT technologies to its model line-up. It will also start selling used Honda ...

Honda City Hatchback RS e:HEV price unveiled from RM107,780

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia has announced the price of the all-new City Hatchback RS e:HEV hybrid variant at RM107,783, on-the-road without insurance and SST. The City Hatchback RS e:HEV was launched in Dec 7 last year alongside three petrol-powered ...

Toyota and Honda have best supplier relations in US, says study

DETROIT: For the fifth straight year, Toyota and Honda topped a study of automakers with US plants in supplier relations, helping them get the best parts at the lowest cost. Toyota was the tops in supplier relations, followed closely ...

Honda hires US engineering firm Exponent to probe Takata air bags

TOKYO: Honda Motor Co has hired Exponent, a US-based engineering consulting company enlisted by Toyota Motor Corp during its recall crisis in 2010, to investigate the cause of ruptures in some air bags made by Takata Corp. The hiring ...

Toyota, Nissan and Honda to work together on hydrogen stations

TOKYO: Toyota, Nissan and Honda have agreed to work together to help accelerate the development of hydrogen station infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). Specific measures to be undertaken by the three manufacturers will be determined at a later ...

Honda CEO to step down, replaced by low-profile engineer

TOKYO: Honda Motor Co today named an experienced, yet little known, engineer as its new chief executive, who will take over in late-June with the Japanese automaker battling the fallout from a slew of recalls that have shaken its ...

Honda's 660ccs of open-top fun

TOKYO: A new mini-roadster, set for launch in Japan this week, turns every trip into a mini adventure and could well find itself arriving on European shores. The car in question, the Honda S660 is an exercise in perfect ...

Honda and Suzuki unveil new bikes

PETALING JAYA: It was a good week for the motorcycling community as Honda and Suzuki unveiled new fuel-injected two-whellers. On Tuesday, Honda introduced the EX5 Dream FI, which is equipped with the PGM-FI technology. The air-cooled 109.17cc engine with ...

Honda inks deal with Maybank on financial services

KUALA LUMPUR: Maybank has signed an agreement with Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd that would allow the bank to provide a range of financial services to Honda clients and dealers. In a statement today, Maybank said the agreement, the first ...

Honda Malaysia recalls over 87,000 cars

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia is recalling 87,182 units of vehicles that includes the City, Civic, CR-V, Jazz and Stream. The exercise is to replace faulty driver and passenger airbag inflators. The affected vehicles are the City (2003-2008 year model), ...

Honda aims for 13,679.4km Guinness World Record title

TOKYO: Honda’s 1.6 i-DTEC engine will undergo an 8,500mile (13,679.4km) real-world fuel economy test across 24 contiguous European countries with the aim to set a new Guinness World Records title for fuel efficiency. The test will occur on June ...

Over 140,000 Honda cars in Malaysia affected by recall

PETALING JAYA: Six Honda models sold in Malaysia are the subject of a recall to replace defective airbags. Honda Malaysia today said the 143,970 units include the City (2006-2012 YM), Civic (2006-2011 YM), Civic Hybrid (2007-2011 YM), CR-V (2007-2011 ...

Honda opens Silicon Valley facility to advance connected mobility

The new Silicon Valley facility of Honda. SAN FRANCISCO: Honda marked the opening of its new Silicon Valley R&D facility last week, using the occasion to unveil a refreshed 2016 Accord featuring Honda’s first application of Apple CarPlay and ...

Honda Malaysia striving to ensure customer deliveries unaffected by warehouse fire

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia was forced to shut it’s No. 1 production line for four days and its No. 2 production line for six days due to a fire on Aug 3. The fire took place at one of ...

This is one Honda to thrill cyclists

FRANKFURT: Honda’s show car for this year’s event is a vehicle that even the most committed cyclists could get excited about. Developed as a way of highlighting the Civic’s huge amount of cabin and trunk space, the Tourer Active ...

Honda Malaysia recalls City and Jazz

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia is the latest car maker to recall its cars. It announced today that the fourth-generation City (2014 model year) and third-generation Jazz (2015 model year) are being recalled for a “product update.” The recall involves ...

Honda next to increase prices from 2016

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia today announced that prices for its vehicles will be increased effective January 2016 due to the depreciation of the ringgit. The company estimates the price increase to be around 2% to 3% depending on model. ...

Two more VTEC turbo mills to come from Honda

TOKYO: Honda will develop two more turbocharged VTEC engines that’s set for launch in Europe in early 2017. The Japanese carmaker will unveil a 1.0 and 1.5-litre turbocharged engine that will be employed in the upcoming 10th generation Civic, ...

Honda snub bursts Takata's financial force field

HONG KONG: Honda has punctured Takata’s financial force field. For the past year, shareholders in the Japanese car parts group have mostly brushed off the growing scandal over exploding air bags which have been linked with at least eight ...

Honda Wave Alpha returns to steal hearts

KUALA LUMPUR: Boon Siew Honda, the official distributor of the Honda motorcycles in Malaysia, has unveiled its new Wave Alpha in two 110cc variants, which will take over the reigns from the Wave 110. With a two-year or 20,000km ...

Honda Malaysia hits a half million unit sales

PETALING JAYA: Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd announced their achievement of surpassing the half a million vehicle sales milestone in Malaysia. “Since our establishment in Malaysia in year 2000, Honda Malaysia has grown steadily and has reached the accumulated sales ...

Honda Malaysia opens RM19mil 3S centre in Semenyih

KUALA LUMPUR: Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd today launched a RM19 million sales, service and spare parts (3S) Centre in Semenyih, Selangor, with 14 service bays to accommodate up to 30 cars daily. It said in a statement that the ...

Refreshed Honda Wave Dash adds more power and fuel efficiency

PETALING JAYA: Boon Siew Honda Sdn Bhd’s first launch for the year came in the form of the refreshed Wave Dash, which sports Honda’s legendary PGM-F1 fuel injection system. Targeted at the young at heart who likes to go ...

Honda to offer new fuel cell vehicle in California in 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Honda Motor Co said on Thursday it will start selling its new hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in California by year’s end. Honda is the latest automaker to bring a small number of hydrogen powered vehicles to market ...

Honda Malaysia zooms to No. 1

PETALING JAYA: Ask Honda Malaysia how they have performed in 2015, and they will be all smiles. It recorded an all-time high sales of 94,902 units, catapulting it to the top non-national brand for the first time in its ...

Honda wants to make exciting cars again, plans more power to engineers, say sources

Hachigo. – Reuters TOKYO: Nearly a year into his job, Honda Motor Co CEO Takahiro Hachigo plans a back-to-the-future shift at the Japanese automaker, driving clearer demarcation lines between those who develop cars and those who sell them, two ...

Honda aims for green cars to make up two-thirds of line-up by 2030

TOKYO: Honda Motor Co Ltd on Wednesday said it aimed for new-energy vehicles to account for two-thirds of its line-up by 2030 from around 5 percent now, as increasingly stringent global emissions regulations prompt automakers to make greener cars. ...

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