2015 Acura TLX GT Race Car in Action - Video

Last week, we talked to you about the new, 2015 Acura TLX GT racer that would be competing in IMSA’s World Challenge series against cars like the Ferrari 458, Lamborghini Huracán, Porsche 911 GT3, and more.

Honda’s latest race car is seeing action again this weekend at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, and Racer Magazine was able to get the Acura’s driver, Peter Cunningham, to give us a walk-through of what makes the upcoming 2015 Acura TLX sports sedan capable of keeping up with – and, he hopes, beating! – the sportier-looking alternatives. Enjoy!

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The Honda Miimo Is A Robot Lawn Mower

The Honda Miimo lawnmower will keep your lawn perfectly trimmed and then find its way back to the charging dock when it’s done. All you have to do is run a thin wire around the area you want mowed and the Miimo will do the rest.

Several times a week, it will undock itself and proceed to clip precisely 0.8 to 0.11 millimeters (about 1/10th “) off the top of your grass. Instead of following the traditional up and back pattern, it does its mowing in a random pattern. Honda says the small amount of grass removed and the random cutting place less stress on grass, giving you a healthier lawn. It also allows the mower to turn the clippings into compost, eliminating the need to clean up afterwards. No more hauling grass clippings to a remote corner of the yard or worrying about making time to ensure your lawn doesn’t draw the ire of the local HOA.

Miimo has a 360 degree perimeter sensor that also ensures it won’t run into the kids or family pet. If it runs into something unexpected, it will automatically change course and head off in a new direction, and the low deck design makes it almost impossible to actually be hurt by this thing.

Now if we could only program it to bring us a cold beer while we recline in our favorite hammock!

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2016 Honda Civic Si to be Made in the USA

While showing off some press pictures of the Europe-only Civic diesel, Honda fan site “All About Honda” claims to have received word that the 2016 Honda Civic and Civic Si will be 100%, all-new for 2016 – and that the company has plans to move all Civic production to the US.

Presumably, that means that all Civic variants (not just the sedans) will be built in East Liberty, Ohio. A move that would, in theory, free up Honda’s Alliston, Ontario plant to focus on the exploding small-SUV segment and production of Honda’s Civic-based CR-V.

Parsing the Engrish over at All About Honda seems to indicate that the next-generation Civic will be a global car without a dedicated “US” and “Euro/JDM” version. That’s the same thinking behind the new-for-2015 Honda Fit, as well, lending credibility to the idea that a 4-door turbocharged hatchback Civic Si is, indeed, coming to America.

Time will tell, I guess.

In the meantime, let us know what you’d think of a turbocharged 2016 Honda Civic Si that’s made in the USA (and, of course, how much extra you’d pay for a McLaren version) in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Enjoy!

Source | Images: All About Honda, via HondaPro Jason.

2015 Acura TLX Makes Competition Debut at Mid-Ohio

The 2015 Acura TLX sports sedan made its debut earlier this year at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) that Chris and I attended. Weirdly, despite tweeting about it frantically and taking a few pictures of the car’s advanced engine, we didn’t write an article about it then. Consider the car you see here, then – the 2015 Acura TLX GT race car – a lesson in taking Acura seriously.

Set to debut at this weekend’s Mid-Ohio World Challenge GT race, a support race for the IndyCar “main event”, the 2015 Acura TLX GT will compete in the top category of the Pirelli World Challenge, facing competition from the like of the Audi R8, Bentley Continental Supersport, Dodge/SRT Viper, Ferrari 458 Italia, McLaren’s MP4/12C GT, and the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.

Serious machinery, in other words.

RealTime Racing owner/driver Peter Cunningham will be behind the wheel of the new Acura, and hopes the flexible engine and willing chassis will help him overcome his more powerful competitors. “The Pirelli World Challenge has a lot of strong competitors in GT, but the TLX is the only all-wheel-drive car in the category. For our four-door sedan to be racing head-to-head with the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini … is pretty cool,” he said.

Developed from the production Acura TLX by HPD and RealTime Racing, the Acura TLX GT features an HPD-modified chassis, Honda’s Super-Handling (SH) all-wheel drive system, and aerodynamic performance parts approved for Pirelli World Challenge competition, and is powered by a direct-injected, twin-turbocharged V6 engine similar to the one used by Honda in the IMSA DP category.

“We’re excited to debut the Acura TLX GT race car in front of our ‘hometown’ audience of associates from the many Honda facilities in central Ohio,” said Art St. Cyr, President of Honda Performance Development and Vice President of Auto Operations for American Honda. “The competition in the Pirelli World Challenge is fierce … (but) Acura has never shied away from a challenge. Instead, we seek it out, both on-track and in the marketplace.”

Big words from everyone. Here’s hoping the Honda guys and the RealTime Racing 2015 Acura TLX GT can deliver!

Source | Photos: Honda.

2016 Honda ACX Hydrogen Car Gets Rendered, Looks Good

Honda’s successor to its original FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell car got teased in the form of the FCEV concept car that debuted in 2013. The concept’s wild styling was expected to carry over, to some extent, to the 2016 Honda ACX- but, Dillon C’s rendering is reliable, it looks like Honda could go in a more conservative direction and launch the car to a larger, more mainstream audience.

Such a move would mirror the hydrogen fuel cell efforts of rivals Hyundai and Toyota, who are bringing their own zero-emissions vehicles to market as 2015 models in the form a fuel-cell Tucson and the fuel-cell FCV that recently debuted in Asia.

Regardless of how accurate the rendering above finally is, however, one thing is certain: Honda is promoting hydrogen as the sparkling clean, water-producing fuel of the future, and has made moves to market the fuel and establish a new infrastructure on the back of existing gas stations in both the US and Japan.

What do you guys think of Dillon’s rendering? Do you think this is the direction Honda’s gonna go, or will they follow up the FCX with something equally wild? Let us know what you think in the comments, below!

Source: Dillon C, via HondaPro Jason.

2015 Acura NSX Fires Could be Caused by Exploding Batteries

New details surrounding the horrific fire that claimed one of Honda’s 2015 Acura NSX hybrid prototypes at the Nürburgring earlier this week have emerged over at enthusiast site, WorldCarFans. Their (unnamed) source claims that “the fire started at the back (of the NSX) following two explosions of the batteries, and, shortly after that, the flames extended onto the rest of the vehicle.”

NSXテストカー炎上…これは熱対策しなきゃいかんやつですかね pic.twitter.com/r8HPc0VxGP

— ゆう (@_Yu03) July 24, 2014

Needless to say, this particular 2015 Acura NSX is a total loss after the blaze. Still, it’s worth noting that (as with Tesla’s highly-publicized fires last year) no one was hurt as a result of the fire. The test driver, apparently having received some sort of warning in addition to the batteries’ popping, pulled over at the Pflanzgarten corner, safe and sound.

Most importantly, however, is that this NSX test mule did exactly what it was sent out on the track to do: fail. The testers can now take whatever data they can get from the incident, study the physical limitations that led to the explosion, and develop fail-safes that will make it into the production version of the Ohio-built 2015 Acura NSX when it finally does debut early next year (think “Detroit Auto Show” or, possibly, the Super Bowl).

You can head over to WorldCarFans to check out more crash porn, if you’re into that, using the source link, below – and let us know what you think of Honda’s new hybrid super car in the comments section at the bottom of the page.

Source | More Images: WorldCarFans ,_Yu03.

Japan Offers $20,000 For Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

Honda and Toyota, two of Japan’s largest automakers, have wholly embraced hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as the alternative fuel of the future. They aren’t alone either, with the Japanese government doling out a huge $20,000 incentive towards the purchase of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, reports Reuters.

That’s more than double the maximum of $8,500 buyers can get back from the purchase of an all-electric vehicle. However, all of the electric vehicles sold by Japanese automakers are much, much cheaper than the $70,000 Toyota FCV, for example. Even so, this generous incentive brings the cost down to a more palatable $50,000 (ish), though that’s no guarantee that buyers are ready to sign on.

As it stands there are just 12 stations online along Japan’s “hydrogen highway”, though by the end of 2015 the number should be closer to 100. Compare that to an estimated 12,000 EV chargers that Japanese automakers are teaming up to install, and even with this huge incentive, electric vehicles seem to have a huge advantage.

Don’t tell that to Toyota or Hyundai though; both automakers are committing tremendous resources to advance hydrogen, cutting off their EV programs at the knees in a bid to make hydrogen viable. In Japan, heavy incentives will certainly help, but can the same generosity be counted on in the U.S. or Europe?

Source:  Gas 2.

New Honda HR-V from Honda's most expensive car with a translucent roof

 New Honda HR-V from Honda's most expensive car with a translucent roof

Honda HRV Most Expensive seems cool with a translucent roof. Honda HR-V is often referred to as the brother of the Honda CR-V in the near future. Honda parties have said that they will present it in two types, engines 1.500cc and 1.800cc as the top.

Not only the larger engine, the top type also has other features, including the presence of panoramic roof or roof with a layer of invisibility.

"There is a special panoramic roof for variants of 1.8 liter i-VTEC," beber Marketing and After Sales Service Director of PT Honda Prospect Motor Jonfis Fandy.

Although showing superiority for the most expensive type, Honda HR-V is complete for driving safety matters in all variants of the highest to the lowest.


Everything is fitted with two airbags, Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA), and the electric parking brake or brake auto hold that works like a hand brake but automatically, and usually present in luxury vehicles.

Touch 'hard core' Mugen Honda Vezel

Touch 'hard core' Mugen Honda Vezel

It's no secret if you touch Mugen body kit has a sporty characteristic that is very capable. Honda is the king and owner of cosmetic grim with extreme cosmetic.


This is the Mugen version of the Honda Vezel. Not only is the All-New Honda Jazz are more attractive, which is said to be the sister of SUV CR-V is apparently also has the impression of a more hardcore and impressed fierce.

Like the armor is mounted on a car, the exterior costume with wide body structure is increasingly radiated through the front bumper, front lip that juts out over the bandage plus two tone color that contrast with each other.

Reviewing the edge, gahar aura was still so thick thanks to the removal of the old parts with larger fender custom alloy design with white patterned side skirts. Not only that, from this angle also seem so sturdy wheels with five-spoke alloy wheels are different than regular bermode Vezel.


This concept is one of Honda's line-up as the champion at the Tokyo Auto Saloon 2014 some time ago. Referring to the latest news circulating the still warm, Vezel name is getting stuck in the automotive realm of homeland since rumored that he will be paved in Indonesia and is still in process.

Touch 'hard core' Mugen Honda Vezel

Honda Civic transformation Asimo and samurai

Honda Civic transformation Asimo and samurai

Inspired by the two famous characters in Japan, John Auri was changing his mount into a nuanced style of Sakura.

"The car is named Asimurai, the name was taken from the combined robot from Japan that Asimo and legendary Japanese Samurai," he told otosia.com

John sticker of choice in realizing the inspiration. Just look at the strokes beautiful and neat Japanese style adorn almost every part of his body the Honda Civic.

Honda Civic transformation Asimo and samurai

Really creative Honda civic transformed into mini-Bugatti Veyron

 

Really creative Honda civic transformed into mini-Bugatti Veyron

For the true modifikator, no word is not possible to change the appearance of any mounts being different. And this time a car Honda Civic Coupe 1990 target to modify how it looks to be the fastest supercar-looking car in the world.

And may arise in our minds, which can? While the dimensions of the body's own smaller Civic. The reason, unmitigated supercar concept models that are different themes is a Buggati Veyron supercar 16: 4 which has a low body dimensions.

The more interesting again is the solution to change the appearance of a 1990 Honda Civic Coupe is for sale on eBay by ' Fiberglassdesign4you '. All the materials that will be used to make the body become Civic Buggati is of fiberglass kit.

And if you're one of the owners of a variant of the Honda Civic Coupe ex. 1990 and are interested in changing the look of the vehicle into a Bugatti Veyron. You need to set up a Fund of about US $ 4500 shipping included and immediately see on eBay, of course.

Like the Honda Jazz Modification Lambo Face

Like the Honda Jazz Modification Lambo Face

Modification contest the prestigious Hot Import Nights (HIN) roadshow held again and begins at SSCC Pakuwon-Surabaya Indonesia on 17-18 May 2014. Following the appearance of the Honda Jazz with the body style of the Lamborghini and the Ferrari 458 Italia exhaust

Copyright: otosia.com / Alvin Perez

Production version of the Honda Civic Type R 2015

Production version of the Honda Civic Type R 2015

Having made a sensational appearance at the Geneva Motor Show 2014 show yesterday with a stunning concept models, the original form of the production version of the Honda Type R 2015 has recently caught on camera.

Stern-faced sporty models of the Honda Civic that is currently undergoing testing period seems in Honda European Technical Center, quoted worldcarfans (16/05).

Body stout successful Civic Type R showed immortalized without camouflage patterns and angles have a lot in common with the concept version appeared at the Geneva early last year.

The charm of the hot hatch Honda candidate's champion as strong radiated from exceptional exterior design. Aggressive new body kit with modified bumpers supported, with aerodynamic side skirts that have been upgraded, extended front fenders and rear wing with sharp ends that stands out.

The power of a high berpeforma city car feels more powerful than the Civic Type R while the stern behind plastered with a four-tailpipe exhaust system and a rear diffuser. Exterior design perfection closed by gold-colored alloy wheels are stunning.




The power of new variants of Honda Civic is going to be provided by a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that is more stable with the support of the turbocharger. Initially, the estimated power output of the Type R will not be less than 280 hp, while the most recent news stating that the blast power of this car will reach 320 hp.

2015 Honda Concept Vision XS-1 a new crossover

 

2015 Honda Concept Vision XS-1 a new crossover

Honda has revealed its latest concept car is a new crossover type this week. It is only a few months after Vesel SUV hit the car market in Japan. This Honda SUV called Vision XS-1. With a design that is so captivating car is very creative. it is revealed from the Delhi Auto Expo, XS - 1 featuring Honda's new in this week.

Revealed at this week’s Delhi Auto Expo, the XS-1 showcases Honda’s new “Exciting H Design” language, described as a “human-centred” philosophy.

Although much of the XS-1’s styling could conceivably cross over to production, we shouldn’t expect the extra-long door and pillarless frame to make the leap.

And, despite its seemingly diminutive dimensions, the XS-1 boasts three rows of seating, including regular buckets up front and two bench sets in the back.

Honda Concept Vision XS-1 Exterior

Honda Concept Vision XS-1 Interior