Honda was named the greenest automaker in the U.S.

UCS (Union of the Concerned Scientists) U.S awarded Honda first place in the forthcoming biennial ranking of car manufacturers of the U.S. market, according to new research published on October 7. Rating primarily focuses on the comparative characteristics of producers in terms of harmful emissions into the atmosphere.
Fifth consecutive Honda topped the list of eight leading automotive suppliers in North America, which together account for 90% of all sold in the U.S. cars and trucks.

"Despite the continued poor performance of some producers - said the study's author, Jim Klyaysh (Jim Kleisch), - UCS ratings show that since the project began in 2000, manufacturers began to pay for" green "factor is much greater attention, and the gap between most and least environment-friendly brands each year is reduced.

Honda has developed a special model for Russia

At this Moscow Motor Show Honda will introduce a new model for Russia.
As the press service of the manufacturer, the novelty combines unique contemporary design, stunning dynamics and unlimited high-speed movement on roads with different types of coverage. Stylish and functional, this model is created in the tradition of Honda.

Details of the car appears in the opening day.

Also at the motor show in Moscow will be provided with an updated model of the Civic, the hydrogen car FCX Clarity, a compact concept car 3R-C and electric unitsikl U3-X.

Honda became the third-largest automaker in the U.S.

Japanese group Honda Motor became the third largest automaker in the U.S., overtaking the company Toyota (the third brand in the U.S. sales) and Concern Chrysler, which is almost all of their machines produce in North America.

This year, Honda has already released 555,734 vehicles in the U.S., and in North America - 756 788. For comparison, in the same U.S. conveyors Chrysler has gone 468,440 cars, and production toyotovskih plants was 430,535 units.

More Honda in the U.S. has collected only to Ford and General Motors.

In addition, Honda now produces more cars in the U.S. than at home in Japan - according to the first quarter of fiscal year 2010.

Within the U.S. at Honda has 10 plants, 2 plant under construction. In addition to these there are 14 design centers and research. In total these enterprises employ about 27,000 people.

Honda net profit for 3 months increased by 36 times

Net profit of Japanese automaker Honda Motor in the I quarter of 2010-2011 fiscal year increased more than 36 times - up to 271.4 billion yen (3.13 billion dollars) against the target of last year, recorded at 7.5 billion yen. This information is contained in published today, a press release.

Sales in the April-June 2010 increased by 28,2% and amounted to 2,890,000,000 yen (33.05 million dollars), whereas the year before the company received 2.25 billion yen.

Operating profit Honda Motor has reached 234.4 billion yen (2.7 billion dollars), more than nine times higher than in the past year, who was at around 25.1 billion yen.

Honda is the second largest car manufacturer after Toyota in Japan and one of the largest Japanese car exporters in the U.S. and other countries.

J.D. Power presented 2010 the most reliable cars rating

The economic crisis that had experienced automakers went to benefit the American Automotive industry. As shown by data released by the marketing company JD Power, owners of vehicles of American manufacturers reported fewer problems in the first 90 days use of their cars than owners of machines in many foreign brands.

According to a study by an average of 100 American cars for the first 90 days of operation had 108 failures, while at the same number of cars produced in the U.S. foreign brands - 109 breakdowns. U.S. auto giants Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler for the first time in the past 24 years have demonstrated impressive results in improving the quality of its products. The biggest success has made Ford: on average every 100 cars of this brand in the first three months of operation revealed 93 faults.

Below is a list of ten car brands that deliver the least problems to their owners. Specified number of breakdowns per 100 vehicles of any brand in the first three months of operation.

1. Porsche (83)
2. Acura (86)
3. Mercedes (87)
4. Lexus (1988)
5. Ford (93)
6. Honda (95)
7. Hyundai (102)
8. Lincoln (106)
9. Infiniti (107)
10. Volvo (109)

Audi Cars occupy 12 line reliability rating, Chevrolet - 1914, Nissan - 15, BMW - 1916, Mazda - 1919, Toyota - 1921, Volkswagen - 31. The worst performance demonstrates Land Rover. In cars of this brand for the first 90 days of operation there is an average of 170 failures per 100 vehicles.

Honda Insight - second place of the safest cars in 2009 by EuroNCAP

EuroNCAP organization allocate 5 safest cars tested in the past year.

Specialists EuroNCAP summed up last year. Based on the results of crash tests, they were top-5 of the safest cars in 2009. First place went to VW Golf VI.

Second and third stage occupy Honda Insight and Toyota Prius hybrids, respectively. Certainly, such a result will please Honda, which can celebrate a small victory over his main rival in the market hybrids.

The fourth line went to Hyundai i20. Closes the top-5 together 3 cars - Toyota Avensis Volvo XC60 and the Opel / Vauxhall Astra. The results of these cars were the same.

American Honda took first place on indicators of car efficiency

In the 25th time in 34 years of EPAgency (the Agency for Environmental Protection) announced American Honda the leader in fuel economy. During the 2008 model year, the most recent year for which complete data are available, Honda and Acura brands together have the highest fuel economy across the fleet - 7.81 liters per 100 km (30.1 mi / gal).

EPA publishes the data for "marketing group" of leading automakers, but not on individual brands of cars. Since the EPA in 1975 began to vote automakers on fuel economy, Honda each year was in the uppermost ranks, or led the list.

Honda is constantly working on the development and promotion of environmental technologies worldwide. The most recent example of this was the debut in Detroit, the American version of the serial hybrid Honda CR-Z, which will be presented in Europe at the Geneva Motor Show in early March. Car Honda CR-Z has a high-speed capabilities, sporting dynamics and handling of all at 5 L/100 km, and low levels of CO2 elections and demonstrates the vision of Honda's eco-car that can satisfy consumer demand.

Americans prefer Toyota and Honda in 2009

Japanese automakers have been on top of the annual ranking of consumers' loyalty, of the American company Polk & Co. He has already drawn 14 times and this year his results have not yielded a great sensation.

The survey revealed that 58.6% of owners of cars Toyota, Lexus and Scion when buying a new car again choose the same brand. Second place in the overall rankings belongs to Honda Motor: the level of customer loyalty is 54,86%.