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2010 Honda Insight Awarded to a Music Festival Participant
2010 Honda Insight Awarded to a Music Festival Participant

28 Oct 2009, 08:21 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Sometimes good things happen to you when you least expect them to. That is exactly what an attendee to the Austin City Limits felt when he found out that he was the lucky winner of a new Honda Insig...

 
2010 Green Car of the Year Finalists Announced
2010 Green Car of the Year Finalists Announced

8 Oct 2009, 08:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As we announced back in the beginning of September, the selection process for the 2010 Green car of the Year (GCOY) awards as under way. The awards, organized by Green Car are to be held at the 2009...

 
Zipcar Car Sharing Program for Students
Zipcar Car Sharing Program for Students

27 Aug 2009, 14:41 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The University of Alabama will benefit from Zipcar’s car sharing program, to help reduce demand for parking and associated congestion problems, while offering students a "convenient, econ...

 
Honda Insight Gets 5 Star Euro NCAP Rating
Honda Insight Gets 5 Star Euro NCAP Rating

26 Aug 2009, 10:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After being subjected to the new testing procedures of the Euro NCAP, the Honda Insight rolled away crushed, but with a great achievement: a 5 star rating. The Japanese hybrid thus joins rival Prius...

 
Honda Electric Car, in the US by 2015
Honda Electric Car, in the US by 2015

24 Aug 2009, 07:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another manufacturer confirmed these past few days their commitment into developing an electric vehicle, as Japanese manufacturer Honda, through one of its spokesmen, said the company is currently d...

 
Honda Insight Hybrid Tuned by Exclusive Zeus
Honda Insight Hybrid Tuned by Exclusive Zeus

31 Jul 2009, 10:04 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Hybrids are not quite the cars you would expect to get aftermarket packages, even if some of them look, let's be gentle... "different". Well, the guys over at Exclusive Zeus actually ...

 
Honda Posts Q1 Profit
Honda Posts Q1 Profit

29 Jul 2009, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Surprisingly, Japanese manufacturer Honda managed to post profit for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending in March 2010, with figures showing a $267 million operating profit for the April-Jun...

 
Toyota May Build Yaris-Based Hybrid in France
Toyota May Build Yaris-Based Hybrid in France

28 Jul 2009, 10:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Toyota's hybrid offensive may open a new front, this time in France where, according to Japanese media reports, it plans on building a Yaris-based hybrid. The version in question is the Europea...

 
Prius Rules Over Japan
Prius Rules Over Japan

7 Jul 2009, 10:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If we keep on bringing you this type of news about the Prius, you may think we're on Toyota's payroll... Well, we're not and, even if some don't like it, Prius rocks Japan sales ...

 
Sound Generators for Quiet Hybrids
Sound Generators for Quiet Hybrids

5 Jul 2009, 13:40 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Even if they’re protecting the environment and help their owners save some money usually spent on gasoline, hybrid cars might actually become a threat for our lives. This is what some Japanese...

 
Toyota Prius HID Trouble...
Toyota Prius HID Trouble...

1 Jul 2009, 13:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / ... or how hybrids get a beating these days. After yesterday Consumer Reports trashed the Honda Insight, deeming it as the "most disappointing Honda Consumer Reports has tested in a long time,&...

 
Honda Insight Gets Bad CR Review
Honda Insight Gets Bad CR Review

30 Jun 2009, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The acclaimed Honda Insight hybrid seems not to be to the liking of Consumer Reports (CR) engineers who, after testing the vehicle, came to the conclusion that its only worth-mentioning achievement ...

 
Toyota Auris Hybrid Confirmed for September
Toyota Auris Hybrid Confirmed for September

24 Jun 2009, 08:50 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Toyota finally confirmed it will debut a hybrid version of the popular Auris hatchback, a model which was often rumored to be launched as a cheaper alternative to Honda's very own hybrid Insigh...

 
Honda Plans Two Cheaper Hybrids to Tackle Prius
Honda Plans Two Cheaper Hybrids to Tackle Prius

18 Jun 2009, 11:00 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Remember the old hybrid battle between Insight and Prius, after which Toyota confirmed its plans to design a cheaper hybrid to compete with Honda's very own product? Well, at that time, Honda s...

 
Honda Insight Sees Storm Clouds in the US
Honda Insight Sees Storm Clouds in the US

15 Jun 2009, 13:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After they began the year expecting milk and honey to run alongside hundreds of thousands of Insights on American streets, the Japanese over at Honda now face some troubled times ahead. Based on the...

 
First Gen Honda Insight Enters Museum
First Gen Honda Insight Enters Museum

11 Jun 2009, 10:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Honda has become particularly fond of museums around the world. After in early May the new Honda Insight has become part of the daily activities of the British Science Museum, ...

 
Honda Fit Hybrid Comes in 2010
Honda Fit Hybrid Comes in 2010

27 May 2009, 07:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the hybrid fever catches on, more and more manufacturers plan hybrids for their future line-up, regardless if they already have some in their line-up or not. With the Insight already on the marke...

 
Toyota Prius Prices Released for Japan
Toyota Prius Prices Released for Japan

18 May 2009, 14:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / And the battle begins... Following a wave of some 80,000 orders, Japanese manufacturer Toyota has announced the prices for its third generation Prius. The hybrid will battle Honda's insight at ...

 
Toyota Receives 75,000 Orders for the New Prius
Toyota Receives 75,000 Orders for the New Prius

15 May 2009, 14:07 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / With the hybrid battle still gaining attention every time it is brought back in the spotlights, Toyota and Honda, the two rival companies, announce enthusiastic results for their Prius and Insight h...

 
Honda Insight Hybrid Tops Japan Sales
Honda Insight Hybrid Tops Japan Sales

11 May 2009, 14:37 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Hybrid sales have adopted a continuously ascending trend ever since the beginning of the crisis and are now even exceeding passenger car sales in certain regions of the world. Such an example is Jap...