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Honda is making a big commitment to hybrid and electric cars in the near future. At the same press event where Honda's CEO announced the new Jazz-based crossover, it also unveiled plans to build an electric city car for Japan and three new hyb...

Honda's booth at the Geneva Motor Show is a mix of the not-so-old and brand new.  In the not-so-old column, Honda will be giving the NSX its European debut and giving the newest CR-V its debut in Europe too.  We saw the new N...

The Museum is located next to the Suzuka circuit

Google is on a roll with adding auto museums to Google Street View. Yesterday, we posted about the addition of the atrium of the Lamborghini headquarters to Street View, and now to coincide with the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, Street View has a...

Rules mean its engine is open to other teams

Honda's return to Formula 1 has made the sport's future much more interesting. The current rules incentivize companies to supply engines to more than one team because of the locked-down nature of the engines. Honda says that it does not in...

As I sit here tapping away under the bright lights of Hong Kong’s cityscape, with its laser show, spectacular five star hotels and twinkling LED lights of Porsche 911s and  Ferrari 458s I can’t help but wonder how Hong Kong&r...

Talked with them once and will again before China

Things are not very comfortable within Red Bull at the moment. Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber have not had the most trusting relationship since at least the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix when Vettel hit Webber to cause him to finish third instead of f...

As Formula One is now heading to Korea, where the country’s inaugural grand prix will take place next weekend, Red Bull boss Christian Horner thinks that his team may be weakened by the long straights of the circuit. During this season Red Bul...

The pitfalls of starting your own car company

…So the saying goes doesn’t it? Start with a big one, and there is no better example than the motor industry. The world is littered with failed supercar companies – of course it has to be supercars because the millionaires b...

The Toyota TS030 has not raced since both cars failed to finish at Le Mans, but that has not kept the car off the track at least in a virtual world. The team is now preparing for the 6 Hours of Silverstone on August 26 in Toyota Motorsport GmbH...

Just a few weeks after the prototype racing season ended Honda was at the Aragon Circuit in Spain from November 18-20 to test the new ARX-03c LMP1 car.  The ARX-03c will be Honda's customer LMP1 prototype for 2013. The car is still in...