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Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
2014 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite | WG + PR
2014 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite® Makes World Debut in New York with Host of Safety Upgrades and Innovations Including HondaVAC™, the First In-Car VacuumThe segment's benchmark minivan cleans up with bevy of safety improvements, sleek new styling and intuitive, family-friendly technologies
NEW YORK
The 2014 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite® is making its debut at the 2013 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS), setting the new 'ultimate family vehicle' standard. Thoroughly refreshed for 2014, the Odyssey Touring Elite® provides core safety upgrades, sharpened exterior styling and a revised interior with a host of new features and technologies designed to make the segment's benchmark minivan even better.
Demonstrating trademark Honda innovation, the 2014 Odyssey Touring Elite® will also mark the debut of HondaVAC™, the first-ever in-vehicle vacuum system. Available exclusively in the Odyssey Touring Elite® trim, the all-new HondaVAC™ system is part of a thorough refresh of the Honda Odyssey for the 2014 model year, adding to its already class-leading fuel economy ratings and unmatched safety ratings. The 2014 Odyssey will go on sale at Honda dealerships nationwide this summer.
"The Odyssey is already the leader in its segment, and for 2014, Honda has made the modern family hauler even better," said Michael Accavitti, vice president of marketing operations at American Honda. "Honda is once again showcasing its reputation for innovation with HondaVAC, and its ability to provide true value to our customers."
The 2014 Honda Odyssey brings an array of improvements to Honda's minivan, including structural upgrades expected to help it achieve top marks in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's (IIHS) stringent new small-overlap frontal crash test, which is part of IIHS's new TOP SAFETY PICK+ protocol. The refreshed Odyssey Touring Elite® will also come equipped with advanced Honda driver assistive and visibility technologies such as an Expanded View Driver's Mirror, Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW).
The 2014 Odyssey features sleeker, more sophisticated exterior styling with a new, more deeply sculpted aluminum hood, new aluminum front fenders, a new bolder twin-bar grille, and a revised lower front fascia with integrated chrome-trimmed fog lights. New two-tone mirror housings, darker-finish projector-beam headlight housings, LED taillight bars and new badging add to the 2014 Odyssey's premium look.
Inside the 2014 Odyssey, new finishes brighten the cabin and an all-new center stack showcases a host of new features. Additional standard technology on the Odyssey Touring Elite® brings new levels of ease and connectivity to owners, including keyless Smart Entry with Push Button Start, HD Radio®, an SMS text messaging function, and HondaLink™ featuring Aha™ Mobile interface. HondaLink™, which debuted on the 2013 Honda Accord, enables Odyssey owners to connect quickly and easily to a wealth of cloud-based content. The free HondaLink™ smartphone app uses the owner's favorite online content to create live, personalized radio stations, allowing drivers to put away their phones and hear updates and news feeds from Facebook and Twitter, as well as check out restaurant reviews or find the closest coffee shop.
Standard on the 2014 Odyssey Touring Elite®, the all-new HondaVAC™ was developed in conjunction with industry-leader Shop-Vac®, and is composed of a powerful vacuum, replaceable filter and canister bag, with nozzle accessories neatly integrated into a dedicated space on the driver's side bulkhead of the rear cargo area. HondaVAC™ makes quick cleanups a snap no matter the location, offering powerful cleaning suction and an integrated hose and cleaning attachments that reach into every corner of the Odyssey's cabin. The HondaVAC™ system's powerful electric motor never needs an outlet or recharging, can operate continuously when the engine is running, and will continue to operate for up to eight minutes when the vehicle is turned off for additional family duties.
Already one of the most lauded vehicles in its segment, the current 2013 Odyssey has earned IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK and NHTSA 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score crash safety ratings. The Honda Odyssey is an AutoPacific Ideal Vehicle Award winner, an ALG Residual Value award winner, recipient of the Best Family Cars of 2012 designation from both Parents Magazine/Edmunds.com and Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com, and a Best Cars for Families award winner from U.S. News and World Report. The Odyssey represents Honda's robust product development capabilities in North America with its design, engineering and assembly all taking place in the U.S., using domestically and globally sourced parts. Currently, 95 percent of all Hondas sold in the U.S., are built in North America.
Along with the 2014 Odyssey Touring Elite® and Honda's complete lineup of fun-to-drive cars and trucks, the 2014 Accord Plug-In Hybrid and 2013 Fit EV also will be on display at the Honda booth during NYIAS press and public days. The 2014 Accord Plug-In and the fully-electric Honda Fit EV both recently became available in New York.
Monday, 18 March 2013
2014 Acura MDX will be revealed at the New York International Auto Show
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| Acura MDX Prototype |
With less than two weeks for the start of the New York International Auto Show companies are starting to reveal what they will bring to the Big Apple. This time it's Acura, Honda's luxury vehicle division, that started to share some things about their new mid-size luxury crossover.
The third-generation Acura MDX will be almost completely new. It will make use of a completely new platform that has been improved in every way, meaning it will be lighter, making it more fuel efficient and with a better dynamic performance, but will also allow for an improved ride comfort and a more versatile cabin.
The seven-seat SUV will be available with a 3.5 liter V6 engine. Power and torque figures were not revealed, but we do know it will have variable cylinder management and direct injection. It will be available with all-wheel drive or just two-wheel drive. Outside we will have Acura's Jewel Eye™ LED headlamps.
Inside there will be more leg room in the third row of seats, thanks to the longer wheelbase of the new platform and the improved AcuraLink Connectivity System.
Acura will also make available several other systems, like the Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS), Multi-Angle Rearview Camera, Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with Low-Speed Follow, Blind Spot Information (BSI), Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ II (ACE™ II) body structure, the Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW).
Find out more on March 27.
Source: acura
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Here's the Honda Civic Tourer concept. Will also be in Geneva.
A few weeks ago i talked about a new concept that Honda was bringing to the Geneva Motor Show which is the wagon version of the Civic, and today a few pictures appeared of that car. Unfortunately nothing else is known but i am sure more details will soon show up.
What we do know is that this concept will become a full production model in the near future and i am eagerly waiting for that since it is a very nice car, it looks really good.
The engine in the concept is the new Earth Dreams Technology 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engine from Honda. Power, top speed and all those values we all love to know will have to wait a little more, so don't miss the public presentation at the Geneva Motor Show.
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Honda will bring to Geneva the Civic Wagon concept, the NXS and a new engine.
Honda recently announced that they will show the Civic Wagon concept at the Geneva Motor Show, together with NSX concept that will keep the exterior look and will reveal a potential direction for the interior design and the CR-V will be available with the new Earth Dreams Technology 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engine
The Civic Wagon concept will serve as a basis for the upcoming addition to the Civic lineup, and the NSS has been seen several times, so nothing new there, while the new engine for the CR-V, which is already available in the Civic hatchback, will be offered starting from September in Europe.
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Honda reveals the Gear Concept in the Montreal Auto Show
The Montreal Auto Show takes place at the same time as the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, so it was a little surprising to find out that Honda had a world premiere in Canada.
This little car is described as "Fun, customizable, connected and affordable. Everything that young, discerning urban buyers would want in a car”. It certainly looks cool. Information about the engine was not revealed and we don't know if it will ever be produced in a large scale.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Acura (Honda) NSX II concept, first look at the interior.
Over the last year Acura, or if you want, Honda, previewed several times the NSX in almost all the possible car shows in the world, but now, for the first time, we get to see the interior.
But let's start with the exterior. The front is a slightly different, with a new carbon fiber piece in the front grille (it has a clear plastic covering the front and rear license plate holder), side vents of both the rear and front bumpers, and the inclusion of turning signals at the front and in the back (LED strip).
The inside, in the lack of a better word, is minimalist. It has virtually no buttons or controls, but Honda says this is for a reason. "The interior package boasts outstanding visibility, an exotic driving position, and an intuitive "Simple Sports Interface" that minimizes interior clutter, allowing the driver to focus on the driving experience". Good enough for me, it looks really look.
The Acura NSX will be powered by a mid-mounted, direct-injected V6 engine connected to Acura's Sport Hybrid SH-AWD® (Super Handling All-Wheel Drive) system. This system is an all-new, three-motor high-performance hybrid system that combines torque vectoring all-wheel drive with advanced hybrid efficiency through the use of three electric motors – one motor integrated with the V-6 engine and two motors driving the front wheels – along with an all-new dual-clutch transmission (DCT). This sounds really good, but we have to await for real figures, to comment on whether this is good or not.
Honda Urban SUV Concept [Video]
Honda presented the Urban SUV Concept at the Detroit Auto Show indicating the styling direction for a future SUV that will be launched in Japan later this year and in the USA in 2014.
The new car will be priced and positioned below the CR-V and will feature fuel-efficient engines with Earth Dreams Technology, plus the configurable Magic Seat setup that can provide a host of passenger and cargo options, which are already used in the Fit.
The production will take place at Honda's newest North American plant near Celaya, Mexico, expected to open in the spring of 2014.
