Martie 7th, 2010 02:28am
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Industry leading online Honda parts catalog announces additional product information on Honda Accord Interior Accessories Items
Denver, Colorado, February 28, 2010 - Discount Honda Acura Mitsubishi Parts today released an announcement detailing some of its featured Honda Accord cargo interior cargo area accessories. Honda automobile owners in need of replacement parts or accessories can go online to browse and conveniently purchase parts at www.discounthondaacuramitsubishiparts.com or at www.discount-honda-auto-parts.com. Featured Honda Accord accessories include:
1) Cargo Hook
The Honda
Accord cargo hook conveniently holds shopping bags by their handles to keep goods in the bag and prevent rolling around in the trunk. The hooks are injection molded for toughness and include four separate hangers per hook. Installation is quick and easy.
2) Cargo Net
The Honda Accord cargo net keeps grocery bags upright and holds most items securely. The cargo net allows Honda Accord owners to protect items in the trunk of your Honda and keep belongings secure. The cargo net features zippered pockets to keep items in their place and works with or without the cargo tray. As an added feature the net has reflective tape for better visibility at night when the trunk is open. Its elastic cord construction is tight fitting and helps to prevent damage to contained items wherever one travels.
3) Trunk Tray
The Honda Accord trunk tray protects the original flooring of the rear storage area. The custom fit trunk tray provides rugged quality ABS plastic for a long life. Easy cleaning is accomplished with mild soap and water. The tray’s protective lip gives added protection to the Honda Accord’s original flooring.
4) All-Season Floor Mats
The Honda Accord all-season floor mats feature the Accord logo. No matter the season or nature’s elements the all-season floor mats provide functionality and offer the ultimate protection for the Honda Accord’s carpeting. The mat’s tough thermoplastic has a long lifespan and is easily cleaned with mild soap and water. The functional design ridges trap dirt, sand, mud and water. The mat’s ribbed backing helps ensure they stay in place. Additionally the floor mat pattern matches the trunk tray.
Discount Honda Acura Mitsubishi Parts accepts online orders 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Representatives are also available by telephone during normal business hours. Additional information about the online store and its offerings is available at www.discounthondaacuramitsubishiparts.com.
About Discount Honda Acura Mitsubishi Parts
Discount Honda Acura Mitsubishi Parts is a leading provider of OEM parts and accessories for Honda, Acura and Mitsubishi automobiles. The online site at www.discounthondaacuramitsubishiparts.com is a one-stop source for parts and accessories for Hondas, Acuras and Mitsubishis of virtually all models and years.
Sursa: http://www.pr-inside.com/honda-accord-parts-online-auto-r1747108.htm
Martie 7th, 2010 02:27am
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The Honda manufacturing plant in Greensburg, Ind., today produced the 100,000th Civic in Indiana since the factory began production on Oct. 9, 2008.
“This milestone is based on the commitment our Honda associates in Indiana make every day to build products of the highest quality for our customers,” said Rick Schostek, vice president of Honda Manufacturing of Indiana. “This is an important achievement for our entire team.”
The Civic was the sixth-best selling vehicle in the U.S. in January, the company said, and was up 12.1 percent in sales for the month over last year.
Currently, Honda operates one shift with about 1,000 employees at the Greensburg plant and produces the Honda Civic sedan and Honda Civic GX, the only natural gas vehicle built in America. Engines for the Civic sedan are built at Honda’s engine plant in nearby Anna, Ohio.
HMIN is Honda’s seventh auto assembly plant in North America and one of 14 major Honda manufacturing facilities in North America, with two more currently under construction in North Carolina.
Sursa: http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100225019
Martie 7th, 2010 02:26am
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Honda is developing a hybrid system suitable for larger cars such as the Odyssey minivan the Pilot sports utility vehicle. Tomohiko Kawanabe, Honda’s chief operating officer for automobile research and development, today told Reuters, “We’ve left the research stage and entered the field of development.” Kawanabe said these vehicles could hit the US market in about three years.
Honda took an early lead in hybrid development about a decade ago, but has fallen behind Toyota and Ford in the race for appealing fuel-efficient gas-electric vehicles. Honda has been advocating a two-part efficiency strategy: diesel vehicles for larger vehicles and hybrids for cars. However, it appears that the company might be flipping that strategy by producing larger hybrids for the US market and diesels with smaller engines for Europe and Asia.
In late 2008, the company abandoned its large-vehicle diesel strategy, but held firm to its goal of producing smaller relatively affordable hybrids. In July 2009, Honda president Takanobu Ito promised to speed up production of hybrid cars, focusing on small hybrids, such as the CR-Z and a Honda Fit Hybrid. Ito said, “Our theme is hybrids.”
In January 2010, Ito said that it would apply hybrid technology to Acura vehicles.
However, its biggest move in that direct, the 2010 Honda Insight, failed to capture interest from consumers. Last week, Honda Executive Vice President Koichi Kondo told Bloomberg that the 2010 Honda Insight might have compromised too much size in the name of efficiency, and hinted that the company might abandon plans for a gas-electric Fit. “There are plenty of people who think that the current Fit meets their needs already” Kondo said. “A hybrid version might seem expensive. Our engineers are really struggling.”
New Life for Honda Hybrids
In today’s interview with Reuters, Honda’s Kawanabe said the company is studying development of a small diesel engine for emerging markets including India, as well as in Europe. “If you want to compete in markets like India, and also Europe, (a small diesel engine) is necessary.”
Honda’s single motor hybrids are less expensive than gas-electric systems offered by Toyota and Ford, which are considered “full” hybrids. However, many observers believe that Honda will need to develop a full hybrid system, and eventually a plug-in hybrid, to be competitive.
The prospect of a full range of Honda hybrids, especially a Honda hybrid minivan, is expected to be well received by hybrid fans. Toyota’s recent quality problems could create an opportunity for Honda to become competitive with hybrids. If Honda can succeed, a new level playing field for hybrids could emerge, with Toyota, Ford, Honda, General Motors and Nissan going head-to-head with electric-drive vehicles.
Reprinted with permission from Hybrid Cars
Sursa: http://www.matternetwork.com/2010/2/hondas-hybrid-comeback-minivans-suvs.cfm
Martie 7th, 2010 02:25am
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It’s a time capsule Inside Line could drive and test. A perfectly preserved 1998 Acura Integra Type R with just 5,400 miles showing on its odometer and new car smell still wafting through its interior. Recently disinterred from somewhere deep in the climate-controlled bowels of American Honda’s Torrance, California, headquarters, it’s undamaged, unmodified, unmolested and almost flawless. And it’s quite likely the nicest Integra Type R left on Earth.
We beat the snot out of it.
By now, virtually all its brother Type Rs have been ruined with stupid modifications, stolen, salvaged and ruined again. But this one is hermetically sealed-in-a-mayonnaise-jar-underneath-Funk-&-Wagnalls-front-porch awesome. Except for the fresh oil in the Type R crankcase, it’s pure 1998.
It was an Acura service-training vehicle and, until Acura decided to sell it earlier this year, it was never titled. When it was made available to American Honda employees for purchase, more than 100 of them signed up for the privilege of buying it. Gary Robinson, an old friend and the new head of Acura Public Relations, won the lottery. And then he made the mistake of mentioning his purchase to us over lunch.
Heck, we’d have settled for a whip around the block. But he let us test it and put a couple hundred miles on its barely used odo. And for some contemporary context, we also borrowed a 2010 Honda Civic Si coupe equipped with Honda’s “FP” Factory Performance parts.
The Type R is still the performance standard against which all other small cars must be judged.
This isn’t a comparison test in the traditional sense simply because comparing a new car to one that’s more than a decade old is just plain stupid, but comparisons are inevitable.
All of us who drove an Integra Type R back then (it made it to America in the 1997 model year) still remember it as the best-handling front-drive car ever built. But memories are fuzzy, fungible things created in the crucible of their moments.
The questions are: Has the Type R’s moment passed? And just how far has Honda small car performance come since Bill Clinton was smoking cigars in the Oval Office?
We decided to find out.
One Change, Just One:
For safety’s sake, Inside Line ordered up a new set of tires for the Type R before testing. The car’s spooky preservation meant the original Bridgestone Potenza RE010 were still wrapped around the white wheels. That’s fine for museum display, but 12-year-old tires dry out and one of our goals was to survive the test.
Unfortunately, Bridgestone doesn’t offer the RE010 in the Type R’s dinky 195/55R15 size anymore, so Tire Rack recommended the Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 Star Spec as the closest substitute. Like the RE010, Tire Rack classifies the Z1 Star Spec as an “Extreme Performance Summer” tire and it’s both the highest rated tire of its type by Tire Rack customers and the best seller in its category. We asked Tire Rack to shave 3/32nds of tread off the new Dunlops to simulate the break-in miles that we couldn’t put on them.
That Tire Rack was able to not only shave the tires but get them to us in just two days is dang near a miracle of logistics.
Old School Done Right:
By 21st-century standards, the Integra Type R is hopelessly archaic. Forget the dinky, body-color wheels. Look at how thin those A-pillars are — no airbags in there. That cowl barely comes up to your knees, the steering wheel has dorky horn buttons on its spokes, the radio head unit is pure Pep Boys and the slider-based ventilation controls would look at home in a ‘48 Ford.
But there are plenty of elements to the Integra design that made us nostalgic. The instrumentation is all in one single, easily scanned pod directly in front of the driver, the front seats mold well to any body, the shifter is perfectly positioned and feels directly connected to the five-speed transmission, and that low cowl means lots of greenhouse glass for better visibility. Yeah, the tall deck spoiler knocks out a bunch of rearward vision, but the Integra otherwise remains a paragon of ergonomic virtue.
And with the Civic Si parked next to it, the Integra looks absolutely tiny. The Integra’s 172.4-inch overall length, 101.3-inch wheelbase and 51.9-inch height are all 3.1 inches shorter than the Civic coupe’s dimensions. At 66.7 inches wide, it’s 2.2 inches slimmer than the Honda. On Inside Line’s scales, the Type R weighed in at a svelte 2,598 pounds — 270 pounds less than the Civic Si.
So the Civic Si is a full NFL defensive end — say, Jared Allen of the Vikings — heavier than the Integra.
Hard-Core Hardware:
It had been almost nine years since anyone at Inside Line had driven a stock Integra Type R, but once inside it was love again at first sit. There never have been many cars as closely tailored as the Integra Type R and there are fewer of them now than there were then. Compared to today’s thickly insulated tubs, getting into an old Integra is almost like swinging your leg over a motorcycle or mounting a horse. You feel somehow exposed, as if the doors weren’t there at all.
Turn the key — and it’s a real bare key — and the Type R’s hand-massaged 1.8-liter B18C5 engine rocks to life. Sound deadening had been stripped from the Type R to cut weight, and sometimes the engine sounds like it’s revving in your lap. Rated at 195 horsepower, it’s down a mere two ponies from the 2.0-liter K-series power plant in the Civic Si. And it makes that 195 hp at a wailing 8,000 rpm — 400 rpm short of its redline. This car is unquiet in the best possible way.
Getting to that 8,400 means tipping into the accelerator pedal, and that means reliving the sensation of a real mechanical throttle cable. This isn’t a pedal hooked up to a rheostat that’s sending a signal to some computer, but rather a thick steel cord that works against a spring on a throttle body. It’s an honest difference you feel in your big toe. And it’s a sensation we all miss.
More Hard-Core Hardware:
There’s never been a better front-drive shifter than the Integra Type R’s and it’s just as good as we had remembered it. The gates are distinct, the effort is light and the shifter movement is instinctive. You mold your hand to the shifter so you can feel all the mechanical bits whirring away in the engine bay through it.
This thing might have a license plate on it, but it has the personality of racecar. And its direct mechanical connection with the driver is made even more special by the abundance of electronically disconnected machines sold today.
The Type R’s engine produces virtually no low-end torque. And even at its 7,500 rpm torque peak, it’s only making 130 pound-feet of twist. It wasn’t built to go drag racing. It was made for the driver who knows how to keep an engine boiling while squirting from corner to corner.
By any measure, the Civic Si’s bigger, 197-hp engine is more civilized and better composed than the Type R’s. Its idle is less raucous, it builds engine speed with less vibration and it’s much quieter at its 8,000-rpm redline than the Type R is at its redline. What they have in common is that distinct moment when the VTEC variable valve timing system kicks in and engine speed gets frantic. Despite the Si’s great exhaust note, its engine simply doesn’t invite the involvement the Type R’s does.
Hard-Core Driving:
The Type R’s steering is taut and the front tires feel sutured to the pavement. Some of this is due to the double-wishbone front suspension that was once every Honda’s most distinctive engineering feature. More of it is due to the lightweight wheels and tires and mechanical power steering.
The Civic Si’s steering ratio, at 13.62:1, is actually quicker than the Type R’s 16.1:1 rack-and-pinion, but it’s numbed by the electric power steering system to which it’s attached and the heavy 18-inch wheels this car was wearing. It’s nonetheless very good. It just pales in comparison to the old Type R.
In fact, on the slalom course the Civic Si bit into the pavement with better initial turn-in than the Type R. That’s likely a function of its slightly wider (215/40ZR18) Dunlop SP Sport tires and quicker steering. Both cars have a helical limited-slip differential working for them through the corners. But the Type R’s chassis offers more feedback and much better manners.
The Civic Si is fast through the slalom at 69.7 mph with the stability control turned off. The old Integra Type R, however, is absolutely scalding. With no stability control to turn off, it blasted through the slalom at a stunning 71.8 mph. That’s just a little bit better than the last Porsche Boxster S we tested and it’s more than 3 mph faster than a 2010 Camaro SS. Some exotics and the Corvette ZR1 will beat it through the slalom, but not much else.
More Hard-Core Driving:
Throw in 0.92g of stick on the skid pad (the Civic Si only managed 0.88g) and the Type R rises to the very top rank of performance cars. This is the best-handling front-drive car Inside Line has ever tested — it just happens to be 12 years old.
The Integra also outstopped the Civic, despite its tiny 15-inch wheels and tires and much smaller 9.5-inch-diameter front brake rotors (the Civic’s measure 11.8 inches). The Type R stopped in an astonishingly short 110 feet from 60 mph; that’s 14 feet shorter than the Honda could manage.
The Type R kicked its ass at the drag strip, too. The Integra’s 6.8-second 0-60-mph clocking and 14.9 seconds at 95.2 mph quarter-mile performance also handily beat the Civic Si’s 7.5-second 0-60 time and 15.4 seconds at 92.5 mph bests. That’s almost all due to the extra weight the Civic is lugging around.
Yes, the Integra Type R will buzz annoyingly on the freeway. Naturally the suspension is balanced more for performance than comfort. Of course the Civic Si is an easier car to live with every day in virtually every way. But the Type R is still the performance standard against which all other small cars must be judged.
The Acura of Acuras:
There’s simply nothing in the current Acura lineup that comes close to being as mechanically engaging as the Integra Type R (or the late, great NSX, for that matter). All-wheel drive, silken V6 engines and computer controls are still poor substitutes for a perfectly tuned chassis, a spellbinding engine and a direct connection between driver and car. When the Integra Type R was new, it was the embodiment of everything we all hoped Acura would be.
If Acura ever decides to go searching for its soul, it’s downstairs in Gary Robinson’s parking spot.
Sursa: http://www.insideline.com/features/1998-acura-integra-type-r-vs-2010-honda-civic-si.html
Martie 7th, 2010 02:23am
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Honda would like to express its deepest sympathy and condolences to the victims of the February 27th earthquake which struck Chile.
In response to this tragedy, Honda will provide the following assistance to the affected area:
* Honda South America Ltda. will make a cash donation of 250,000 US dollars (approx. JPY22.5 million).
* Honda’s local operations in Chile and its dealers will provide generators and water pumps, and start repair assistance program for customers affected by the disaster.
About Honda South America Ltd.
Established: April 2000
Capital Investment: 119,027,624 Brazilian real
Capitalization Ratio: 100% Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Representative: Sho MINEKAWA
Sursa: http://www.hondanews.eu/en/news/index.pmode/modul,detail,0,1448-DEFAULT,21,text,1/index.pmode
Martie 7th, 2010 02:22am
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Pentru a sublinia că noua Honda CR-Z este o maşină pentru fanii Fast & Furious low budget, tunerul de casă Mugen oferă deja un program de accesorizare sport a maşinii. Un fel de surogat pentru CR-Z Type R.
Honda CR-Z by Mugen
Când am spus “Fast & Furious”, m-am referit doar la look, nu şi la performanţe - şi asta deoarece Mugen nu s-a ocupat de upgrade-ul grupului motopropulsor al lui Honda CR-Z (probabil în ideea că, oricum, o vor face fanii, mai ales cei japonezi). Pachetul exterior presupune spoilere faţă şi spate modificate (ciudată ideea ledurilor din spoilerul faţă), precum şi adoptarea unor praguri profilate, care evidenţiază cum nu se poate mai bine jantele noi de 17″. Însă ce va face deliciul amatorilor de lucruri exagerate este eleronul din partea superioară a hayonului, din spate CR-Z by Mugen fiind cu adevărat o maşinuţă unică.
Interior cu mici tuse sport Mugen
Interiorul beneficiază de inserţii din fibră de carbon , diverse propuneri pentru măciulia schimbătorului de viteze şi covoraşe personalizate. Pentru cei mai pretenţioşi, catalogul Mugen mai conţine şi o nouă linie de evacuare, filtre de aer sport, un nou sistem de frânare şi o suspensie modificată, precum şi un sistem inedit de monitorizare a pneurilor.
Despre preţuri sau disponibilitatea accesoriilor Mugen pentru Honda CR-Z în Europa, nici un cuvânt, deocamdată.
Sursa: http://www.promotor.ro/hobby-tuning-auto/articol-honda-cr-z-by-mugen-tuning-de-casa-5621051
Februarie 24th, 2010 04:53am
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Constructorul japonez a publicat astazi un comunicat oficial in care anunta ca standul sau de la Geneva va gazdui inca o premiera mondiala. De aceasta data este vorba despre un concept cu trei roti, botezat 3R-C.
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Honda a anuntat astazi ca va aduce la Geneva, pe langa deja anuntatul concept EV-N, care vine in premiera europeana, un alt prototip cu trei roti, botezat 3R-C. Gandit ca un vehicul cu emisii zero, destinat unei singure persoane, conceptul incearca sa arate nevoile minime pentru un transport urban.
Trenul de rulare electric a fost montat foarte jos, pentru a-i oferi vehiculului pe trei roti un centru de greutate redus si implicit o stabilitate imbunatatita. Pozitia soferului este protejata de un parbriz care curge spre capota dar si de o structura rigida, care ofera siguranta in cazul unui impact lateral sau frontal. Japonezii au gandit chiar si un portbagaj pentru micul vehicul urban, pozitionat frontal si destul de incapator pentru nevoile zilnice ale unei singure persoane.
Conceptul 3R-C, care va fi expus la standul Honda alaturi de FCX Clarity si EV-N, a fost desenat de o echipa europeana ce activeaza in cadrul departamentului de cercetare al japonezilor, situat la Milano.
via | Honda
Sursa: http://www.automarket.ro/stiri/honda-lanseaza-la-geneva-un-concept-cu-trei-roti-3r-c-28591.html
Februarie 21st, 2010 11:28am
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Japonezii de la Honda lucreaza la dezvoltarea unui nou sistem de propulsie hibrida pentru automobile mai mari, de genul SUV sau monovolum.
Tomohiko Kawanabe, seful departamentului de cercetare de la Honda, a declarat ca inginerii sai lucreaza la dezvoltarea unui nou sistem de propulsie hibrida, pentru automobile mari. Kawanabe spune ca noul sistem va fi gata peste cel mult trei ani.
Generatia actuala de hibride Honda, Insight si CR-Z (primul hibrid cu transmisie manuala), foloseste un sistem serie, unde motorul electric ajuta motorul pe benzina dar, spre deosebire de sistemul paralel al celor de la Toyota, motorul electric al hibridelor Honda nu poate functiona singur. Sistemul Honda e mai simplu si mai ieftin, dar nu e la fel de eficient ca cel propus de Toyota.
Initial, Honda si-a propus sa creasca eficienta energetica a modelelor de clasa mare prin folosirea unor motoare diesel ecologice, dar japonezii au abandonat strategia diesel in favoarea celei hibride. Totusi, Kawanabe spune ca Honda va dezvolta un motor diesel de mic litraj, pe care japonezii il vad indispensabil pentru pietele emergente, ca cea din India sau din unele tari europene. Momentan, singurul motor diesel de la Honda este cel de 2.2 litri.
via | just-auto.com (inreg.)
Sursa: http://www.automarket.ro/stiri/honda-va-introduce-un-sistem-hibrid-pentru-suv-uri-pana-in-2013-28518.html
Februarie 10th, 2010 11:32am
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Dupa o vacanta de iarna mai prelungita emisiunea autoMOBILE poate fi urmarita din nou in direct incepand cu duminica 28 februarie ora 12:00 pe postul OTV
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| Pentru a dispune de studiouri mai mari necesare expunerii automobilelor prezentate cat si pentru a avea o libertate editoriala, am luat decizia ca ” autoMOBILE sa se mute unde este mai cald si bine “. Astfel dupa o analiza a posibilitatilor existente pe piata TV am decis sa ne mutam la OTV. In prezent construim un nou decor ( mai jos o schita ), un decor modern cu multe LED-uri si ecrane. Prima emisiune autoMOBILE din acest an se va difuza in direct duminica 28 februarie intre orele 12:00 si 13:00. Aceasta emisiune va da si startul primului concurs in cadrul caruia de Paste telespectatorii nostri pot castiga un automobil. Pentru prima perioada a acestui an sunt contractate deja mai multe automobile diferite care se vor acorda ca premiu. Regulamentul primului concurs va fi publicat pe acest site peste cateva zile. |
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Ianuarie 17th, 2010 08:04am
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Honda a anuntat ca va aduce la Salonul Auto de la Tokyo din acest an un nou concept, denumit Insight Sports Modulo, precum si doua noi studii de design.
Realizat sub motto-ul “Exciting Eco”, prototipul Insight Sports Modulo este o versiune mai sportiva a hibridului Insight si beneficiaza de retusurile estetice pe care le poate primi un model Honda modificat de programul de customizare Modulo oferit de Honda Access Corporation.
La exterior, conceptul se distinge printr-o serie de detalii cum ar fi o noua grila frontala, spoilere fata si spate redesenate, proiectoare cu lumini LED, praguri laterale si jante din aliaj cu un capac aerodinamic ce aminteste de cele folosite in Formula 1.
Cele doua studii de design sunt in fapt versiuni modificate ale modelelor Freed si Life, care se comercializeaza doar pe piata nipona. Acestea au fost redenumite Honda Freed Styling si, respectiv, Honda Life Styling.
Sursa: http://www.auto.ro/concept_cars/Honda-aduce-la-Tokyo-un-nou-concept-si-doua-studii-de-design
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