• Honda names new Customer head
    • 16/05/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Sarah Roseblade has been appointed head of customer at Honda, taking over from Michael Doyle, who has taken up a new role as vice president at Honda Motor Southern Africa. With over 20 years of experience at the company, she has worked both in head office and in the retailer network. Having started her Honda career [...]
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  • Dacia disappoints in safety tests
    • 13/04/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Citroën DS4 scored a five-star safety rating in the latest round of Euro NCAP tests, but the Dacia Jogger achieved just one star with many safety features not included and some that are described as sub-standard. The Citroën DS4 moved from four stars in original tests to five stars following the addition of [...]
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  • Takata recall could expand further
    • 20/10/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Regulators in the US said they could expand their investigation into Takata air bag inflators beyond 11 car manufacturers, as questions arose about whether vehicle design played a role in the devices posing a deadly risk to the public. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) chief Mark Rosekind [...]
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  • Honda to unveil new HFCV at Tokyo
    • 30/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Honda has announced it will display future mobility solutions, including the global debut of all new fuel cell vehicle (FCV) at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show. It will be the debut unveiling of the Japanese firm’s all-new fuel cell vehicle, provisionally called the FCV. Honda’s original technologies have made the [...]
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  • Honda’s profits jump 20%
    • 31/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Japanese carmaker Honda's profit jumped 20% in the first quarter thanks to strong sales in its biggest market, North America, and cost-cutting measures. Its net profit rose to 186bn yen ($1.5bn; £960m) in April to June from 155.6bn yen a year ago - widely beating expectations of 145.7bn yen. The company said a [...]
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  • Honda Takata saga continues
    • 09/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Honda is recalling around 1.63 million more cars in Japan to replace air bag inflators made by supplier Takata and around 4.5 million more cars globally, due to continuing fears over the potentially deadly defect. At least eight deaths, all in Honda cars, have been linked to the airbag inflator, which can deploy [...]
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  • New world record for fuel efficiency
    • 08/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Honda has set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for ‘Lowest fuel consumption – all 24 contiguous EU countries (all cars)’, recording an average 100.31 miles per gallon over 8,387 miles, in a 25 day drive across all 24 EU contiguous countries. Behind the wheel of a Honda Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC for the entire [...]
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  • Honda has no plans to help Takata
    • 06/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Honda’s new chief executive Takahiro Hachigo, said the Japanese carmaker has no plans to provide financial aid to Takata, the airbag supplier currently at the heart of global airbag recall that has dented Honda’s reputation as well as its earnings. Speaking at his first news conference since taking the wheel in [...]
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  • US lawmakers have warned of car ‘recall fatigue’
    • 24/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Policy makers in the US have warned of car 'recall fatigue' in a congressional hearing with regulators and carmakers about progress in a major airbag recall. Faulty airbags made by Japan's Takata have been linked to at least eight deaths, multiple injuries and has prompted the largest recall in US history. The [...]
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  • Eight deaths now linked to faulty Takata airbags
    • 22/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Honda's U.S. division said on Friday (19 June) it has linked the September 2014 death of a woman in Los Angeles, California, to the rupture of a Takata airbag inflator, bringing the number of fatalities related to defective Takata airbags to eight, Reuters reports. U.S. highway safety regulators also confirmed that [...]
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