Honda
Honda wins appeal of small-claims hybrid judgment
LOS ANGELES -- A judge overturned a nearly $10,000 small claims judgment against American Honda Motor Co. that was won by a car owner who said the automaker misrepresented that her hybrid Civic could get 50 miles per gallon, according to a ruling released Wednesday.
Date: 05/10/2012 | Business
Auto sales surge in March, led by small cars
DETROIT -- Appealing small cars, low interest rates, truck deals and unseasonably warm weather helped the auto industry achieve its best monthly performance in almost four years in March.
Date: 04/03/2012 | Business
Thailand floods hit Honda
DETROIT -- Parts shortages from three months of catastrophic flooding in Thailand have forced Honda to cut U.S. and Canadian factory production by 50 percent for the second time this year, the automaker said Monday.
Date: 11/01/2011 | Business
2012 Honda Civic comes up short against the competition
Little things add up. Or -- in the case of the 2012 Honda Civic EX sedan and Civic Si -- subtract.For more than a decade, the Civic was the benchmark against which other automakers judged their compact cars, but the new 2012 model is a disappointment.
Date: 10/29/2011 | Business
Maine man’s Honda Accord hits a million miles
SACO, Maine -- A Maine man and his car are celebrating a million-mile milestone.Joe LoCicero was given a 2012 Honda Accord at a parade in the city of Saco on Sunday after surpassing the million-mile mark on the odometer of his 1990 Accord. He reached the milestone last Thursday.
Date: 10/26/2011 | Business
ATVs are often reviled in Vermont, but popular this week
BETHEL, Vt. -- All-terrain vehicles, reviled by environmentalists and others for their noise and the erosion they can cause in sensitive forest ecosystems, are about to be banned from state land by Gov. Peter Shumlin's administration. But ATVs and their riders have come to the rescue this week as...
Date: 09/02/2011 | Nation & World
Carmakers report surprisingly strong sales in August
Fears that car buyers would stay away from dealerships in August never materialized.
Date: 09/02/2011 | Business
Auto industry, seeing new life, is on hiring spree
DETROIT -- Volkswagen opened a plant in Tennessee last month with 2,000 workers. Honda is hiring 1,000 in Indiana to meet demand for its best-selling Civic. General Motors is looking for 2,500 in Detroit to build the Chevy Volt.
Date: 07/07/2011 | Business
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