Honda Motors has announced group profits up an impressive 40% between April and June, year on year, to a quarterly record, boosted by the weak yen and higher motorcycle sales.
The Honda Insight has been shortlisted for a design award. The hybrid car is one of six entries in the Design Sense Award, alongside such product innovations as the interlocking brick, the Motorola mobile phone and Eco Works office furniture.
Honda is to use Isuzu diesel engines in a bid to boost European sales. Production of the 1.7-litre diesel engine will start in November at the Polish Isuzu plant.
Honda's second car plant at Swindon has been completed on schedule.
Audatex has been named Honda UK's sole estimating and imaging system provider as part of the company's new 'body and paint programme'.
Johnsons Honda at Wheatley has appoointed a new sales executive, Michael Flood, who has 23 years experience in the motor trade.
Shropshire-based Mitsubishi and Honda dealer JT Hughes is a relative latecomer to the internet, launching its website last month. Designers Webcraft and Positive Advertising followed a precise brief from managing director John Hughes who wanted the site to appeal to dealership's local audience.
G&M Motors, in Gravesend has become one of the UK's first Honda dealerships to adopt its 'brand centre' strategy.
Honda has revived its Jazz model brand name for a 5dr which debuts in Europe at the Frankfurt motor show in September. Jazz was previously used on a small car between 1984-86.
Honda is confident its approved repairers can retain a far higher level of accident repair business, boosting customer loyalty to the marque and raising bodyshop profitability, if the network conforms to consistent levels of service.
Honda's high performance Civic Type-R - built at Swindon – is set to go on sale in October for £15,995.
Honda UK has launched a new range of emailable interactive brochures, or e-brochures.
##Jazz.jpg--left##Honda has unveiled a new compact five-door hatchback due to make its European debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and go on sale in Britain early in 2002.
Honda is recalling more than 4,800 of its new Civic 5-door in the UK after discovering faulty fuel filler pipes.
Honda has released details of its new Stream SAV Sports Activity Vehicle. The mini-MPV has seven-seat capacity, in a similar way to Vauxhall's Zafira.
Honda's new Civic 5-door has achieved the highest ever pedestrian protection rating in the latest European New Car Assessment Programme safety tests.
Honda has confirmed plans to cease making the 5dr and 4dr Accord in the UK just weeks before its second £400m plant at Swindon is scheduled to begin production.
Honda is to transfer Accord production from Swindon to Japan to make the UK plant the home of the latest Civic incarnation and the next generation CR-V.
Honda's £1m used car advertising campaign is likely to have little impact on residuals according to Cap Network.
<b>Richard Feast's Globalwatch</b><br> Honda is one of the great little global automotive companies even though it may have a blind spot when it comes to modern diesel technology and petrol engines that develop high torque at low revs.
