From the article: "Our own informal survey of reactions to the Element was absolutely polarizing. Anybody over the age of 50 just didn't get it....But for people under 40, and especially those under 30, they thought it was funky, goofy, odd--and stran [Read More]

American Honda sales increased 3.3% last year to an all-time record of 1,247,834 while setting eight new records including light truck sales for Honda and Acura divisions and the sale of the world's first fuel cell car certified for commercial use.
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From the article: "This is Honda's crash test center, one of the world's most advanced. The lab the size of a dozen football fields is at the forefront of Honda's efforts to reinvent itself as a safety leader ? the Volvo of Japan." [Read More]

From the article: The additional vehicle, he said, would have to be smaller than the MDX. "For the lack of a better term," Mr. Elliott said what he is envisioning is "an entry-level Acura SUV that could appeal to younger, more performance-oriented con [Read More]

TOV editor, Shawn Church, is in a New York Times article discussing how today's young hot-rodders are comfortable with using computers to improve engine performance. We are glad that Shawn's work in the Honda performance community is being recognized! [Read More]

Honda is planning a mid-size pickup for the US market but is not targeting the full-size sector into which Nissan weighed this week, the Detroit News said. [Read More]

This marks the first time for a Honda to be the best selling car in Japan, so this is more surprising than it might sound.
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DETROIT -- The federal government's top auto safety regulator singled out rollover-prone sport utility vehicles as a major safety issue Tuesday, putting more pressure on a vehicle segment that has been driving the profits of Detroit's Automakers. [Read More]

Asimo (Advanced Step Innovative MOtion) is going to go on a NA Educational Tour. Starts Jan 27th. Don't miss it. The demo is cute, but the robot motion is truly revolutionary.

We saw ASIMO in motion last night.

To say that I was astonished [Read More]

The lowlights of this story are the complete, immediate ban on:

-Car to Pit Telemetry (??? WHAT?!)

-Pit to Car Telemetry/Control (Fine)

-ALL Radio Communications between Pit and Car

-Cars must be parked in Parc Ferme between Final Qualifyi [Read More]

Honda's JDM website shows a link to "New Luxury". Clicking on it takes you to a new web page (work in progress) but it shows an MDX with the Acura logo. It appears that we might see "JDM Acura" shortly. [Read More]

Tom Bongiorno snapped these photos of the Arctic Blue 2004 TSX that is on display in the Acura booth at the Philadelphia Auto Show.

Thanks for the great pics, Tom. [Read More]

Editor's Note: Hey all...well, thankfully the teams were as upset and against the changes as I and many others were. During the TWG (Technical Working Group - the reality check for policy decisions in the FIA) meeting yesterday, they managed to compr [Read More]

Honda had the highest percentage of its models recognized by AMES
2003 Model Year AMES Award Winners. [Read More]

King Motorsports announced yesterday their planned involvement in the 2003 Speed World Challenge racing series with their King/Mugen RSX. Alon [Read More]