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Consumer Reports 2009 reliability survey results

Ford has secured its position as the only Detroit automaker with world-class reliability. About 90% of Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln products were found to have average or better reliability, according to Consumer Reports’ 2009 Annual Car Reliability Survey. The results were announced today at an Automotive Press Association luncheon in Detroit. Read the rest of this entry »

Honda Insight and Toyota Prius IIHS crash tests

The U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have crash-tested the new Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight, and both have earned the group’s coveted “Top Safety Pick” award. That means each of the vehicles managed to score the agency’s highest rating of good in front, side, and rear tests and are equipped with electronic stability control, standard on the Prius and optional on the Insight. Read the rest of this entry »

Honda celebrates 50 years in America

Honda marked its first 50 years in America this week, commemorating the establishment of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., in a small Los Angeles storefront on June 11, 1959. Honda associates observed the occasion with a brief ceremony at the company’s U.S. headquarters in California. Read the rest of this entry »

Honda Fit Hybrid coming by 2011

Japan’s Nikkei business daily reports that a hybrid version of the Honda Fit will be launched a full 18 months ahead of schedule, apparently bringing the release date closer at Fall 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Honda CRZ-based hybrid sports cars in development

Honda has seriously committed to developing hybrid cars nowadays, after the success of the Insight and, to a degree, the Civic hybrid as well. In Japan, Honda plans to introduce a Fit hybrid as well. And now, Honda has also confirmed that a production version of the CR-Z concept will arrive within the next year as a compact hybrid coupe, according to the Japanese Best Car magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

Toyota Prius EX older model sold in Japan

When it became clear that the Honda Insight was chasing the lower end of the hybrid market, and generated a lot of interest, Toyota got nervous. Their upcoming all-new 3rd-generation Prius was loaded with gadgetry and therefore premium-priced to match. So then Toyota decided to reduce the base price of the upcoming 2010 model, while also still offering a 2nd-generation Prius alongside the new model. Read the rest of this entry »

Top 10 cleanest gasoline and diesel cars

French car magazine, l’Automobile, believes that considering CO2 as the only pollutant to adapt legislation is unfair. Hence the magazine editors came up their own list that includes all pollutants coming from the exhaust pipe. Read the rest of this entry »

2010 Toyota Prius orders reach 75,000

After a disastrous loss of almost $8 billion last year, Toyota has something to be happy about. The 2010 Prius already has 75,000 orders in the books, much more than the 40,000 units that Toyota expected. Read the rest of this entry »

2010 Toyota Prius and Honda Insight go head to head

Hybrid-electric cars continue to evolve with the introduction of the 2010 Toyota Prius and the 2010 Honda Insight at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. Both are very similar cars, and both come with a petrol engine that supplements itself with self-generated electrical power. Both also offer increasingly impressive fuel consumption figures. Read the rest of this entry »

2009 Honda Insight to debut in Paris Auto Show

Honda has revived the Insight nameplate for their latest hybrid, and this time, it comes with four doors to fight hand-to-hand with the Toyota Prius. Read the rest of this entry »