Honda has notified its dealers not to sell some cars until they complete a recall to fix an air bag defect, which has been linked to 18 injuries and two deaths. The problem lies within the driver side air bag, which can deploy with a lot of force and send metal shards into the driver. [...]
Honda announced today that it is expanded a previous recall of certain 2001 through 2003 model-year Honda and Acura brand vehicles to replace the driver’s airbag inflator originally install in around 273,000 vehicles in the United States. The recall covers an additional 917,267 vehicles. Honda said that “affected driver’s airbag inflators may deploy with too [...]
Five minivan models have earned the 2011 Top Safety Pick award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The winners are the safest vehicles around, with better rollover crash protection than other models. Other qualifying factors include the highest ratings for side, frontal, and rear crash protection, along with electronic stability control. On the top [...]
For the seventh consecutive year, Porsche is the highest-ranking nameplate in the 2011 APEAL Study by J.D. Power and Associates. Hyundai also improved from 2010 more than any other nameplate this year, while Jeep and Chrysler also improved considerably. BMW and Dodge each had three models each that received the segment-level awards. BMW models receiving awards [...]
We’re not sure how man of you are fans of the minivan segment but as Cars.com points out “It’s not often you see an entire segment of the auto industry redone at the same time, but 2011 is a renaissance for minivans.” All the major players in the segment including Nissan, Honda, Dodge, Chrysler, Toyota [...]
WardsAuto has released its list of 10 Best Interiors for 2011. The list is a result of a lot of work done by the team at WardsAuto, where editors drove 51 vehicles that were all-new or featured significantly upgraded interiors to determine the 2011 winners. “We’ve never evaluated so many vehicles for any awards competition [...]
Honda announced today that it is voluntarily recalling 2,800 units of the 2011 Honda Odyssey in the United States to replace the side window glass in one or both of the front doors. “Honda is taking this step because there is a potential for one or both windows to become detached from the window regulator, [...]
Here is another recall for today. Honda announced that it is recalling a total of 33,341 units of the Honda Odyssey minivans over windshield wiper defects. Apparently the front windshield wiper blades become frozen to the windshield, causing the rod to separate from the motor Honda received the first reports of the issue in Canada [...]
In these days, nothing seems to be built like they used to be. The simple answer is that it’s all about the money. In desperate bids to increase profits and expand into markets to raise volume, much has been sacrificed in the realm of build quality, reliability and handling performance. This should not be news [...]
Even though the 2011 Honda Odyssey is built by a Japanese automaker, the minivan is truly an American-made vehicle – designed, engineered and assembled in the United States. The American made minivan earned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s best-possible Overall Vehicle Score of five stars. That makes the 2011 Odyssey one of the first [...]
