Green Car Congress
APRIL 20, 2018
The partners co-engineered the system for the 2019 Acura RDX. —,Joe Riggsby, Acura RDX body development leader, Honda R&D Americas. The application isn’t just limited to SUVs and minivans, we are seeing it in pick-up trucks and small cars. The outer door ring replaced conventional multi-piece, spot-weld designs.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2017
This new goal builds upon earlier-announced plans for Honda and Acura vehicles to have highly-automated freeway driving capability (SAE Level 3) by 2020. Honda Sensing was first introduced on the 2015 Honda CR-V and has since been applied to the Honda Civic, Pilot SUV, Ridgeline pickup and just-launched 2018 Odyssey minivan.
Charged EVs
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Honda would also develop an upmarket Acura ZDX crossover on the same platform—that one would be built by GM at the Lyriq assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX are presentable, competent and competitive. GM would build the car for Honda alongside the Chevy in its Ramos Arizpe plant.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 7, 2017
Developed by Honda R&D, the new 10AT features a low-friction design, which will deliver outstanding drivability in new Honda and Acura vehicles. It will appear first in upper grades of the all-new 2018 Honda Odyssey minivan, launching this spring, and will be applied to additional light-truck and car models in the future.
Green Car Congress
JULY 31, 2017
In addition, the all-new Pacifica minivan also makes strategic use of aluminum. Its combined city/highway rating of 22 mpg is unsurpassed in the minivan segment, while the all-new vehicle’s unique construction also benefits the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid. All-new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica body structure 72% high-strength steel.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Hachigo was in charge of developing the first-generation of the US-built Odyssey minivan, which was launched in 1999 primarily for the US market. where he became actively involved in the local development of Honda and Acura automobiles. In April 2006, Hachigo became Operating Officer of Honda R&D Co.,
The Truth About Cars
JANUARY 18, 2024
Elsewhere in the showroom, the Prologue is scheduled to land in the coming months, the Odyssey minivan is due for some tweaks, and a fuel cell CR-V is in the works for certain markets. Acura customers will find freshened MDX and RDX crossovers whilst shopping, along with the ZDX variant of that Prologue EV.&
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