The Honda S2000 Has The Best Startup Sequence How do you start your car? Is it a push button with a proximity key, a standard key that you turn, or that weird thing BMW did for a while where you have to put the fob in the dash before the button will work? Well, regardless of your answer, your car is boring to start — unless you own a Honda S2000. Read more…

Honda and Nissan Scrap $50 Billion Merger Plan The Japanese companies’ decision to call off negotiations highlights the challenges legacy automakers face in partnering to tackle new technologies.

Nissan’s Pride Killed Its Merger With Honda Good morning! It’s Wednesday, February 12, 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…

2026 Honda Passport Muscles Its Way Into Dealerships With A Starting MSRP Of $46,200 The 2026 Honda Passport TrailSport is rock-climbing its way to dealers this week and, with an MRSP of $49,900, the off-roader trim turns this formerly mild-mannered grocery-getter into a vehicle fit for the wilderness. The base 2026 Passport starts at $46,200 including destination, a couple grand more than the… Read more…

Nissan Still Wants A Partner, But It Won’t Be Honda Good morning! It’s Thursday, February 6, 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…

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…