Honda Motor Co News

Mumbai, Jul 7 : A day after excise duty was cut on premium cars in the Union Budget, two car majors Ford India and Honda India, today reduced prices of their various models.

Most Asian stocks fell, led by Japanese automakers, as a stronger yen threatened the value of overseas sales.

Honda Motor Co. plans to use Indian-made steel plates for automobiles that will be produced at its South Asian plants, the company announced Tuesday.

Honda marked a changing of the guard here on Tuesday with an official gathering to mark the coming of Takanobu Ito, Honda's new president and CEO.

Hyundai Motor Co. launched a hybrid car in South Korea Wednesday, the company's first foray into the increasingly competitive market dominated by Japanese rivals Toyota Motor Corp.

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For Hyundai Motor Co, things could hardly be going better: last month, it won top marks in a U.S. quality survey, its sales rose in a sliding global market and even its share price is back up above pre-crisis levels.

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. , Japana s two largest carmakers, slowed the decline in domestic auto sales last month as their new hybrid models and government incentives boosted demand.

A class action lawsuit against Greenville-based Michelin North America and American Honda Motor Co.

U.S. auto sales in June again failed to reach a 10 million annual pace as General Motors Corp.

Toyota Motor Corp. a s U.S. sales in June fell more than predicted after the company pared incentives and overall market demand failed to beat Maya s level, delaying a U.S. rebound for Asian auto brands.

In this photo provided by Honda, John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., introduces the production version of the all-new 2010 Honda Insight, a dedicated gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, during its world debut at the North American International Auto show in Detroit, Jan.

Rinaldo Rinolfi may have the key to making Fiat SpA's partnership with Chrysler Group LLC work.

After a yearlong free fall in the American car market, the decline of sales slowed in June, offering hope to automakers that the bottom has been reached and more shoppers may slowly start returning to showrooms soon.

It's official: The U.S. Government is investing in more fuel-efficient cars. Unfortunately, its efforts don't seem to be creating smarter automakers in the process.

Honda's new hybrid-only Insight, touted as a low-cost competitor to the Toyota Prius was dealt a major blow Monday after it failed to get a thumbs up from the influential magazine Consumer Reports.

Toyota's system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analysing brain waves, it said in a release on Monday.

Rinaldo Rinolfi may have the key to making Fiat SpA's partnership with Chrysler Group LLC work.

The company plans to eliminate some of the 10 models exclusive to Japan over the next five or six years, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Honda's Japan sales head, said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday, without specifying the models.

The 2010 Honda Insight is that other hybrid. Sure, there are actually more hybrids on the road than just the 2010 Honda Insight and the 2010 Toyota Prius, but these two hold billing for the Battle Royale of the originals.