Why Honda is merging with Nissan: factories, SUVs, and China Photo by PHILIP FONG / AFP via Getty ImagesHonda’s potential merger with Nissan would represent one of the largest shake-ups to the industry since the creation of Stellantis in 2021. But there are huge risks involved, too. On Tuesday in Las Vegas, during a roundtable discussion with select media, Honda executives offered some more insight into …

Honda May Use Nissan For Its Big Trucks And SUVs In The U.S. Good morning! It’s Thursday, January 9, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Honda 0 Saloon Looks Extremely ‘Miami Vice,’ But Are We All Still Doing The ’80s Thing? Remember the wave of ’80s nostalgia that tore through the world a few years back? The one that gave us “Stranger Things,” a surge in synthwave, and the revived Lamborghini Countach? That wave is finally cresting, giving way to the Y2K revival, and that puts Honda’s 0 Saloon concept in a tough spot. Read more…

Why Mergers of Carmakers Like Honda and Nissan Often Falter The Japanese companies are considering joining forces to survive in a rapidly changing auto industry, but auto history is filled with troubled and failed marriages.

Honda And Nissan To Merge In 2026, Creating World’s Third-Largest Automaker Good morning! It’s Monday, December 23, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

A tie-up between Honda and Nissan will not fix their problems Speed, not scale, is what they require

Honda teases reveal of two new Honda Zero EV prototypes Image: HondaHonda teased the reveal of the first two Honda Zero prototypes, which will be making their official debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The company also said it would have a new proprietary operating system for the global electric vehicle series to show off. Honda announced Honda Zero at CES 2024, describi…

Honda And Nissan In Merger Talks To Compete With Tesla And China Good morning! It’s Wednesday, December 18, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

Honda Prelude Returns To The U.S. Next Year As A Hybrid With Simulated Shifts Instead Of A Manual Transmission Brace yourselves, because Honda is getting back into the sporty coupe business. On Tuesday the automaker announced that the Prelude will return to the U.S. in late 2025, two years after first debuting it in “concept” form. The downside? It sounds as if the new coupe won’t come with a manual transmission as was… Read more…

Honda and Nissan Are in Talks to Deepen Ties and Possibly Merge The automakers, Japan’s second and third largest, are said to be discussing a tie-up that could reshape the country’s industry.

The Honda Prelude returns as a sporty hybrid with a new drive mode Image: HondaOut to prove that the sports coupe is far from dead, Honda announced the return of the Prelude with an all-new hybrid-electric powertrain. It’s been over two decades since Honda last released a new Prelude, but the company began laying the groundwork for its return with the release of a concept version last year. Now, a hybrid Prelud…

Honda Made A Small EV With 81 Miles Of Range Nearly 30 Years Ago Honda has been doing big things with alternative fuels for decades now. While models like the game changing first-gen Insight and theAccord and Civic Hybrids from the early 2000s put Honda’s electrification efforts into the mainstream public’s awareness, few may realize that Honda started down this path right before… Read more…

We All Should Have Bought Honda S2000s When They Were Cheap The Honda S2000 is one of the better cars ever put together by human hands. It’s lightweight, nimble, and rewarding to wring out to its limits. Yet, these are all qualities that I’ve heard rather than experienced, because S2000s are too damn expensive now. For example, this S2000for sale on Marketplace, is listed for… Read more…

Honda vs eBay Hello Traders, A person from Hood called me and want me to sell my stuff on there marketplace. I sell used electronics, electric rarity and spare parts for electric devices. Now ebay is expensive, and with hood I don’t have this much service cost as by ebay, the 19% tax in germany and like 16% cost from ebay are very high So I think about it. Do…

Here’s How Honda’s Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise To A Minimum As electric cars have taught us, car tires are a major source of undesirable noise in a car’s cabin.Honda has an ingenious solution to the issue, hidden resonators that work to cancel out the noisetires make, kind of like noise-cancelling headphones. Tires are like balls in that they are made of rubber and filled… Read more…

Honda Odyssey Upstages Both Deadpool And Wolverine In Movie Trailer People are getting tired of superhero movies. Marvel’s been trying its hardest to get Young Avengers off the ground, but it’s not 2008 anymore, and it’s a lot harder to get people to the theaters. Ironically, that makes it the perfect time to bring back Deadpool and pair him up with Wolverine in a highly anticipated… Read more…

Honda Says The New Prelude Will Not Be The ‘Sportiest, Zippiest Car’ Honda says the Prelude concept is headed for production. Not as an EV, but as a hybrid. The new coupe could be available in as little as two years, or around the mid-2020s, according to CarsGuide. But the return of the Honda Prelude will be less about performance and more about practicality. Despite its sporty looks,… Read more…

The 2024 Honda Ridgeline TrailSport Is Here To Join The Overlanding Party Honda’s Ridgeline beat the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz to the unibody truck world by sixteen years, and the Japanese automaker has used a lot of that time to refine and develop its lone truck offering. For the 2024 model year Honda is cashing in on the overlanding trend and building an off-road oriented… Read more…

The Honda Motocompacto Is As Fun As It Is Cute On a chilly, gray fall day at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan, myself and several other local journalists became the first to take a hands on look at Honda’s briefcase-sized answer to that last little bit of any adventure; the all-electric Motocompacto. Read more…

If The Honda Prelude Doesn’t Go Into Production, I’ll Eat My Shoe Honda just took the wraps off a new Prelude concept at the Japan Mobility Show, and it’s hard not to get excited about a sporty electric coupe that would probably be relatively affordable. As with all concepts, though, it makes sense to be skeptical. For example, the Nissan Hyper Force concept is going to have to… Read more…