
To celebrate the launch of Honda’s BTCC team for 2010, Honda (UK) have unleashed an enhanced limited edition Civic Type R featuring exclusive MUGEN equipment, the 2011 Honda Civic Type R MUGEN 200 Limited Edition. This limited edition Type R continues the association between Honda (UK) and the Northampton-based subsidiary of Honda’s tuning partner MUGEN. The standard features of the Swindon-built Type R (which include Honda’s 201PS, screaming...

American Honda Motor Co., Inc., has announce the Honda Personal-Neo Urban Transport (P-NUT) design study model demonstrates a futuristic concept for an ultra-compact and sophisticated city coupe at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show. Conceived around a small “footprint” for maximum convenience in tight urban settings, the packaging concept integrates a center driving position configuration and a rear powertrain layout. The exterior styling...

Principal Mugen stockist and leading Japanese tuning house Torque Developments International Plc announce that the full range of Honda Civic Type R FN2 upgrades are now available for the performance aftermarket. Covering engine, chassis, braking and visual enhancements, the Mugen Civic Type R FN2 product range has been subject OEM style levels of arduous design, testing and quality control tests, ensuring that the Mugen FN2 product portfolio offers...

Honda announced plans to begin sales in Japan of the CR-Z sporty hybrid model in February 2010 and Fit Hybrid before the end of 2010. By combining these two models with the currently available Insight and Civic Hybrid, Honda will further enhance its lineup of compact hybrid models, which leverage the unique characteristics of Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA), including compact size, lightweight and high efficiency. In addition, Honda is...

Mugen has released their latest upgrade package of the Honda Civic Type-R hatchback. Set to go sale in the UK in the third quarter of the year, the Mugen-enhanced Civic Type-R comes with a four-cylinder, 2.0-liter i-VTEC engine that gets a minimum 200 horsepower, as well as uprated shocks and springs and Mugen’s new ‘I-TCMS’ tire monitoring system. Brembo has also been called in to supply huge 12.6in slotted discs up front and 11.1in...

Honda Insight Hybrid, the new five-passenger, five-door Insight is powered by a lighter, more compact version of Honda’s IMA hybrid system and will go on sale in the spring. The centerpiece of the all-new Honda Insight Hybrid is the latest Integrated Motor Assist IMA® system. This next-generation hybrid system benefits from everything we have learned as the first automaker to bring a hybrid to the market in the U.S., the original Insight. Compared...

The Honda Civic Si Coupe serves as the performance halo for the Civic nameplate placing a premium on fun-to-drive character with a high-revving, 197-horsepower, 8000 rpm redline, 2.0 liter i-VTEC® 4-cylinder engine; 6-speed close-ratio manual transmission; and a helical-type, limited-slip differential for enhanced traction in high-performance driving situations. The Honda Civic Si Coupe enhances the performance potential of the Civic architecture....

Honda Civic Si has increased the overall width by 65mm, to 1,765mm, and the front and rear tracks to 1,504mm (up 34mm) and 1,510mm (up 45mm), respectively, to create a more dynamic silhouette and a better handling car. As a result, Honda was able to give the Civic Si a near-futuristic, high-tech and sporty cockpit with this Dual Link dashboard, with its distinct three-dimensional effect, was made possible due to the exterior’s wedge-shaped, cab-forward...

The 2009 Civic Hybrid is a 4-door, 5-passenger family sedan, available in 4 trims, ranging from the CVT AT-PZEV to the CVT AT-PZEV w/ Leather and Navigation. Upon introduction, both trims are equipped with a standard 1.3-liter, I4, 110-horsepower, hybrid engine that achieves 40-mpg in the city and 45-mpg on the highway. A variable speed automatic transmission with overdrive is standard. The Honda Civic Hybrid with advanced IMA hybrid technology achieves...

The 2010 Insight defines a new stage in the evolution of hybrid technology, providing hybrid customers with a new level of affordability, fun-to-drive performance, and a U.S. EPA city/highway fuel-economy rating of 40/43 miles per gallon. Evoking the advanced and aerodynamic five-door sedan design first deployed on the revolutionary FCX Clarity fuel cell car, the new Insight has a low center of gravity and a spacious five-passenger cabin, offering...