Good afternoon and thank you for coming to the Honda press
conference.
It's been a truly remarkable year for American Honda.
Although it won't be official until tomorrow, our preliminary
results show that American Honda and both the Ho...
A production version of the Honda
SUT concept that debuted at the 2004 North American
International
Auto Show will be produced at Honda of Canada Mfg. (HCM) in
Alliston,
Ontario, in 2005. To make room for the new model, all
prod...
American Honda sales
rose 8.2 percent in 2003 to a new all-time record of 1,349,847
Honda
and Acura cars and light trucks. Both the Honda and Acura
brands also
recorded all-time record results for the year on the strength of
popular pr...
Super Aguri Fernandez Racing
today announced that 24-year-old Kosuke Matsuura of Aichi,
Japan,
will pilot its #55 Panasonic ARTA Honda-powered Panoz G
Force/Firestone entry in the 2004 IRL IndyCar Series.
Matsuura, a long-time me...
In keeping with Honda's
commitment to environmental leadership, American Honda
announced
today that more than 60 percent of its 2004 model year Honda
and
Acura vehicles meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's
Tier
2-Bin...
Steering dampers are not new to the motorcycling scene. For
decades, riders have resorted to using steering dampers, most often
for extreme-use high-speed racing conditions in off-road competition
as well as road racing. Regardless of...
Look at the CBR®1000RR chassis and see Honda's hard-earned
knowledge gained in the ferocious MotoGP wars. This all-new chassis
incorporates the engine as an integral frame member, for example, and
larger items such as the fuel tan...
American Honda Motor Co.,
Inc., posted a new January record for total vehicle sales of
90,173,
eclipsing the 2003 record of 90,003 with the daily selling rate
declining 3.7 percent due to one additional selling day in 2004.
January...
For the third consecutive year,
Car and Driver magazine has named the Honda Pilot as the best large
sport-utility vehicle in its annual "5Best Trucks" competition. More
than 35 vehicles in five separate categories were nominated for t...
Boosted by record February sales for
Honda Civic and Pilot, as well as Acura MDX and TL, American Honda posted all-time
best results for total vehicle and light truck sales in February along with
record February sales for b...
American Honda broke several records for March sales, including all-time record
sales for the Acura Division and its all-new TL sedan, as well as record March
sales for the Honda Pilot, Civic Hybrid and Acura MDX. March sales for...
American Honda Motor Co., Inc., today announced
a voluntary recall of certain Honda and Acura light truck models equipped with
V6 engines and five-speed automatic transmissions to inspect and repair a potential
defect in the ...
Honda Manufacturing of Alabama LLC, (HMA) today began
mass production of Honda's popular Pilot sport utility vehicle and the
V-6 engine that powers it on the company's new second production line.
The first Alabama-built Pilot - a 3...
Honda vehicles achieved the highest
ratings of any non-luxury brand in the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Initial
Quality Study (IQS), a survey of new car buyers' perceptions of quality
problems such as quality of workmanship...
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. President
and CEO Takeo Fukui helped Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC (HMA) dedicate
the production startup of Honda's new assembly line in Lincoln and the
production of the fi...
American Honda Motor Co., Inc., along
with both the Honda and Acura sales divisions, recorded new all-time record
June sales as American Honda posted its best ever first half for any calendar
year, the company announced today. J...
Total American Honda vehicle sales of
129,872 set a new July record to help maintain a record year-to-date sales pace
of 815,896 cars and light trucks, up 1.2 percent from 2003, American Honda Motor
Co., Inc., announced toda...
Those of us in the industry face a number of difficult challenges that threaten
survival. But even if we face a "perfect storm," Honda's approach
remains the same ... to focus on those things that are within our control. We
cann...
Thank you, Dave. And good afternoon everyone.
Like many of you, I love to play golf. So, I am surprised to see so many of
you return from lunch! But I am impressed. And I hope my presentation is worth
your sacrifice to give up an ...
Management Briefing Seminar
We are invited to participate in a number of forums that focus on purchasing
issues. And we come to these meetings with the same spirit that we bring to
our relationships with suppliers. We are here to s...
We are invited to participate in a number of forums that focus on purchasing
issues. And we come to these meetings with the same spirit that we bring to
our relationships with suppliers. We are here to share what we know ...
and...