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With the fastest growing ‘super rich’ group in the world, Vietnam is going to be a prime target for the HondaJet. Honda Motor has announced plans to start selling its HondaJet private aircraft in several Southeast Asian markets to capitalize on the region’s…
Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda is going to invest $124 million (approx Rs 802 crore) to establish a multifunctional aeroacoustic wind tunnel facility to advance vehicle innovation and enhance the world-class testing facilities at the Transportation…
Japan’s Honda Motor will launch an all-electric battery car in China next year as demand for plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) expands in the world’s largest automobile market, a senior company executive said. Yasuhide Mizuno, Honda’s China chief, told…
PT Honda Prospect Motor (HPM) has crossed the one million-unit automobile production milestone in Indonesia, 14 years after it began manufacturing operations in the country. HPM began local automobile production in February 2003 with the Honda Stream at its…
Honda Motor Co said on Wednesday it had entered into formal talks with Alphabet Inc’s new self-driving division Waymo to add self-driving technology to its vehicles, marking the second potential customer for the automation software. The move comes just one…
Honda Motor Co is shifting around its North American vehicle production mix and may raise imports from Japan to squeeze out more SUVs as it struggles to keep up with strong U.S. demand for larger models, a factor which has prompted the automaker to trim its…
Honda Motor Co lifted its full-year net profit forecast by 6 percent, betting that Chinese customers will keep buying its XR-V and Vezel SUVs and the popular Civic sedan after robust demand there boosted Asian sales sharply in the latest quarter. Japan’s…
Honda Motor Co plans to build a new factory in China that will produce passenger cars from 2019, boosting its output capacity in the country by about a fifth, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Honda and partner Dongfeng Motor Group Co…
Honda Motor Co Ltd said on Wednesday that the driver-side airbag inflator ruptured during a fatal crash in Malaysia, in the fourth death this year in the Southeast Asian country linked to airbags from supplier Takata Corp (7312.T). The incident on Sept. 24…
Statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs show that the foreign sector controls roughly 80% of the local car and automobile (excluding motorbike) retail market with a sales volume eclipsing all of Southeast Asia. Auto distributors and original…
Honda Motor Co on Thursday said it was recalling about 668,000 vehicles in Japan to replace air bag inflators supplied by Takata, as part of an expanded nationwide recall announced earlier this year. Japan’s second-largest automaker said it had recalled…
Riding on a sustained double-digit growth in scooter volumes, Japanese auto major Honda has seen India emerge as its biggest two-wheeler market this financial year. Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) recently overtook the company’s volumes from the…
Indonesia’s tax amnesty could boost industrywide car sales by a fifth as people spend their newly declared wealth on big-ticket items, according to the local unit of Honda Motor Co. “The car ownership ratio in Indonesia is relatively low and there’s enough…
PT Yamaha Indonesia Motor Manufacturing (YIMM) and PT Astra Honda Motor (AHM) have been suspected of involved in motorcycle cartel practice. The suspicion was raised after an investigation conducted by the Commission for the Supervision of Business…
Honda Motor has installed a new type of production line that is about 10% more efficient at an automobile plant in Thailand, the company said Thursday. Until now, each worker was typically responsible for adding one type of part to a vehicle, and had to walk…
Japanese automotive major Honda has unveiled its Honda BR-V Prototype, powered by a 1.5 liter i-VTEC engine with 6-speed manual transmission or a continuously variable transmission (CVT), at GAIKINDO Indonesia International Auto Show (GIIAS) 2015. Stated to…
