2009 Honda Fit

Those who thought the previous Fit, known in many parts of the world as the Jazz, was perhaps too small will not be disappointed as the new Fit is a tad larger. This should fit the bill for many who really need a smaller car but perhaps don't want one. How's that for an oxymoron?

2009 Acura RL

On sale in July, the 2009 Acura RL will feature a new 3.7-liter engine, a new five-speed automatic transmission, improved steering, better handling, a reworked interior, revised styling, and a host of new technology and entertainment features.

Watkins Glen, NY - June 10, 2007 -- With the completion of Rounds Four and Five at Watkins Glen this weekend, the 10-race 2007 SPEED Touring Car Championship has now reached the halfway point. The best Acura was second on Saturday and fourth on Sunday.

Pierre Kleinubing’s Acura TSX was the highest finishing RealTime player in the top half of the double header, while Kuno Wittmer put his RSX in fourth in the bottom half.

Randy Pobst won both races in his Mazda 6, making the score after five races Mazda: 4, Audi: 1, Acura: 0.

Dallas, TX - May 5, 2007 -- Honda today opened an Environmental Learning Center (ELC) in Irving, Texas, the company’s third such facility in the country. The ELC is designed to be a unique community resource that promotes a responsible land use ethic through a greater understanding of the varied regional ecology.  Honda also has ELCs in Colton, Calif., and Alpharetta, Georgia.

Honda's Irving ELC consists of approximately four acres surrounding an existing four-acre Rider Education Center where more than 30,000 street, dirt and ATV riders have been trained since it opened in 1989.  The ELC features a trail system and species of plants, grasses and trees representing ten different Texas ecosystems as part of the Center's state-of-the-art off highway training facility.

Homestead, FL - April 12, 2007 -- This weekend's KONI Challenge event will mark the first time that Bill Fenton Motorsports' Todd Lamb and Dave Thilenius have competed for the Sport Tuner class win at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but the veteran team has found that, often, the first time is the charm.

The 2003 season was the first time that Bill Fenton Motorsports raced at Homestead with KONI Challenge, and they earned the STII class win en route to taking the championship that year.

Charlotte, NC - April 4 ,2007 -- JVC has signed a new partnership agreement with London-based Autodelta. This relationship will include JVC sponsorship of the Autodelta European Tour 2007, which takes place 28 July – 4 August, as well as an on-going agreement to supply a limited range of high-end models including the eagerly awaited in-car entertainment/navigation system the KD-NX5000.

The new in-dash turn-by-turn navigation system is full of hi-tech features such as HDD, which will allow customers to build up a library of huge amounts of music files within their vehicles negating the need to carry their music collections around with them. Compressed (MP3/WMA) or uncompressed files may be stored and replayed at the touch of a button.

Torrance, CA - January 3, 2007 -- Driven by yearly record sales of light trucks and the TSX sports sedan, Acura surpassed the 200,000-unit sales mark for the second consecutive year, the luxury division announced today. Year-end Acura sales totaled 201,223 units, down just 3.7 percent from a year ago (based on the daily selling rate).

Meanwhile, December Acura sales of 19,056 units were up 6.3 percent compared to last year, fueled by strong demand for the all-new RDX turbocharged SUV and MDX luxury SUV. MDX posted strong December sales of 6,227, up 17.1 percent from a year ago.

Torrance, CA - January 3, 2007 -- American Honda Motor Co., Inc., today announced all-time record sales results for the 10th consecutive year. Sales from both Honda and Acura Divisions totaled 1,509,358 and pushed American Honda annual sales up 3.5 percent based on the daily selling rate*. The results also mark the company's 13th consecutive year-over-year sales increase. American Honda December sales totaled 131,778 vehicles, up 3.0 percent for the month based on the daily selling rate.

Tokyo, JP - December 19, 2006 -- Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that it would further accelerate its effort to strengthen the core characteristics that make Honda unique in each business area in order to continue creating new value and providing products and services which are beyond customers’ expectations. Toward this end, Honda will steadily make progress with plans and initiatives in the following three areas, which Honda first announced in May.