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Acura unveils all-new electrified ARX-06 race car

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Acura Motorsports released the first official images and details for the all-new, electrified Acura ARX-06 prototype sports car, which will make its competition debut next January at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The MGU is contained in a common transmission casing and gearbox internals provided by Xtrac. Bodywork and Aerodynamics.

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Honda’s Indiana plant to boost production capacity; add Civic Hybrid

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Indiana was the first Honda plant in North America to build a hybrid vehicle when it started Acura ILX Hybrid production in April. HMIN produces the Civic Sedan and the Civic Natural Gas on the same assembly line with the Acura ILX. million vehicles per year. Additionally, Honda’s capacity in the region will total 1.92

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Honda to introduce three hybrids to China market this year, local production of EVs

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With two weeks to go until the opening of the Beijing International Auto Show, Hond Motor (China) Investment outlined its mid-term business strategy for China, covering both the Honda and Acura brands. In this way, Honda will strive to realize the highest fuel economy in each vehicle category in the China automobile market.

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Honda to Begin Selling Insight and CR-Z Hybrids in China By End of 2012

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President & CEO Takanobu Ito in his speech at the 2010 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition. In addition, said Ito, Acura will introduce its first hybrid model within the next three years. Honda is also exhibiting a concept model of the LI NIAN brand, Guangqi Honda’s proprietary automobile brand.

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2024 Honda Prologue: Japan’s most American brand gets serious about EVs

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Honda is often known as the world’s largest maker of internal combustion engines—more than 14 million of them a year. It sells those engines in a variety of containers, from home generators and lawn mowers to ATVs and automobiles. The Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX are presentable, competent and competitive.

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Honda to build new plant in Mexico for production of subcompact vehicles, starting in 2014

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HDM), Honda’s production and sales company in Mexico, will build an automobile plant for production of fuel-efficient subcompact vehicles for the Mexican and North American markets. The smallest automobile currently produced by Honda in North America is the compact Honda Civic, which is built at Honda plants in Indiana and Ontario, Canada.

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Acura provides more technical detail on NSX sports hybrid AWD powertrain, body

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Acura unveiled the production model of the next-generation NSX at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) this past January ( earlier post ), and now has provided more technical detail on the high-performance hybrid sports car and its new Sport Hybrid-AWD power unit. —Ted Klaus, Acura NSX Global Development Leader.

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