* The Hybrid vehicles market, which became somewhat popular towards the middle of the decade, underwent major advances notably typified by such cars as the Toyota Prius, Ford Escape, and the Honda Insight though by December 2010 they accounted for less than 0. 5 % of the world cars.

Hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight, Ford Escape Hybrid, Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid, and Honda Civic Hybrid also use them.

The Honda Insight has indexed spark plugs from factory, with four different part numbers available corresponding to the different degrees of indexing to achieve most efficient combustion and maximum fuel efficiency.

Honda Insight hybrid

These encompass such vehicles as the Saturn Vue, Toyota Prius, Toyota Camry Hybrid, Ford Escape Hybrid, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Honda Insight, Honda Civic Hybrid Lexus RX 400h and 450h and others.

The first mass production parallel hybrid is the Honda Insight.

On-road examples include Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda Insight, Honda CR-Z, Honda Accord Hybrid, Mercedes Benz S400 BlueHYBRID, BMW 7-Series hybrids, General Motors BAS Hybrids and Smart fortwo with micro hybrid drive.

The three most popular hybrid vehicles, Honda Civic, Honda Insight and Toyota Prius, set the standards even higher by producing 4. 1, 3. 5, and 3. 5 tons showing a major improvement in carbon dioxide emissions.

Articles on the CR-X have compared its appearance to that of the Honda Insight.

Examples include the Toyota Prius, Honda Insight, the Vectrix electric maxi-scooter, the Tesla Roadster, the Nissan Leaf, and the Chevrolet Volt.

The first-generation Honda Insight ( 2000 – 2006 ) used a 1. 0 litre inline-three engine in conjunction with an electric motor in its hybrid system.

The vehicle was the second mass-produced hybrid on the American market, after the two-seat Honda Insight.

Toyota cut the price of the Prius from to to better compete with the Honda Insight, leading some to wonder whether increased sales of the Prius might come at the expense of sales of other vehicles with higher margins.

Competition from lower priced hybrids, such as the Honda Insight, also made it difficult for Toyota to capitalize on the Prius's success.

Only the first-generation Honda Insight ( 2000 – 2006 ) equipped with a manual transmission attained a lower fuel consumption rate.

* 2010 Honda Insight

* Honda Insight

The Civic Hybrid uses an Integrated Motor Assist hybrid system similar to Honda Insight.

* In Major, the protagonist's father, Shigeharu Honda, is hit in the head by a pitch during a major league match.

Despite the movie's poor box office and critical reception at the time of its original release, it is gradually becoming a favorite among fans due to its dark nature, brief but entertaining kaiju battles, and the return of series veterans Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube.

Operating predominantly in Indonesia, it is a provider of a full range of automobile and motorcycle products in partnerships with companies which include Toyota, Daihatsu, Isuzu, Nissan Diesel, Peugeot and BMW for automobiles, and Honda for motorcycles.

The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.

Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, La Honda, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Montara, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Gregorio, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.

* 1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.

The Honda Battle of the Bands is an annual marching band exhibition which features performances by HBCU bands.

In 2009, according to a preliminary report from the Environmental Protection Agency published in November 2009, which is based on 2009 pre-model year production projections provided by automakers, Hyundai, at an average of, is the second most fuel-efficient automaker in America, after Honda's combined U. S. fleet of Honda and Acura models at an average of.

During 1998 the 406 apparently lacked sufficient horsepower to compete with the front runners ' Nissan Primeras and Honda Accords ; this was mentioned during a particularly strong showing from Harvey's 406 at the Oulton Park BTCC meeting of 1998, when motorsport commentator Charlie Cox stated " some people say ( the 406 ) is down on power – you're kidding ".

The highest speed for a MotoGP motorcycle in 125 cc category is by Valentino Rossi in 1996 for Aprilia and the top speed in the history of MotoGP is, set by Dani Pedrosa riding a Repsol Honda RC212V 800 cc during Free Practice 1 at the 2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix.

NiMH technology is used extensively in rechargeable batteries for consumer electronics, and it will also be used on the Alstom Citadis low floor tram ordered for Nice, France ; as well as the humanoid prototype robot ASIMO designed by Honda.

A bronze statue of Wild Wing is also located outside the team's arena ( located at the West side of the South Doors ), Honda Center.

Federally, Los Gatos is located in California's 15th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 14 and is represented by Democrat Mike Honda.

The used car lot (" Campus Cars ") that Dave's father owns was on S. Walnut St., and was a real used car lot for many years, but now has two small commercial buildings on the property ; it is located at 1010 S. Walnut St. Next door is the local Honda motorcycle franchise seen in the background of the famous " Refund?

Ensenada Honda is the largest harbor on the island and is considered to be the most hurricane secure harbor in the Caribbean.

It is home to a major Honda manufacturing plant, employing over 4, 000 people.

Mel Rapton Honda is located on the main Fulton corridor.

Today the Pruneyard Shopping Center is home to Democrat Mike Honda and the South Bay offices of the FBI.

Federally, Fruitdale is located in California's 15th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 14 and is represented by Democrat Mike Honda.

* Honda Element, a sport utility vehicle

* Honda U3-X, a self-balancing one-wheeled electric vehicle by Honda

In 2007 it reached 3, 961, 629 worldwide vehicle sales — surpassing Fiat, Chrysler, PSA / Peugeot, Nissan, and Honda.

The Hyundai Elantra was Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle among 19 other compacts and small family cars, beating out the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius.

Applications of NiMH electric vehicle batteries includes all-electric plug-in vehicles such as the General Motors EV1, Honda EV Plus, Ford Ranger EV and Vectrix scooter.

Acura is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Honda Motor Company.

* Honda produces a Utility terrain vehicle called Big Red.

Honda FCX Clarity, a hydrogen fuel cell demonstration vehicle introduced in 2008

In December 2010, however, it introduced a BEV version of the Honda Fit, using elements of its hydrogen engine design, stating that the " industry trend seems to be focused on the battery electric vehicle ".

In 2008, the ACEEE rated the Honda Civic GX, which uses compressed natural gas, as the greenest vehicle available.

This vehicle debuted in Japan in 1985 as the Honda Quint Integra, available only at Honda's Japanese dealership sales channel Honda Verno before going on sale a year later in North America as part of the then-new luxury Acura lineup.

Being designed as the successor of the Honda Quint, the Integra is closely related to the Civic, although it featured a small list of key upgrades over its smaller stablemate to help merit a price increase over the CRX Si, which was otherwise the sportiest subcompact vehicle being offered by Honda Verno ; enlarged 4-wheel disc brakes replaced the small front-disc / rear-drum setup used by the Civic and CRX, suspension calibration was re-worked, better tires were used and a 113-hp DOHC fuel-injected 16-valve engine was used in place of the SOHC unit from the CRX Si.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) in the US raised questions about non-hybrid Honda vehicles equipped with the company's ' Idle Stop ' transmissions in February 2001 due to concerns over the " sudden lurching forward of a vehicle in an automatic restart " – rather than the " gradual creeping forward found in current transmission designs.

The second generation Inspire was almost identical in its dimensions to the first generation 1986 Honda Legend, with that vehicle having been updated and enlarged to better fit the role of flagship for the Honda and Acura brands.

In North America, this vehicle was sold as the Acura TL, while in Japan it was the second model that accompanied the flagship Honda Legend at Honda Clio Japanese dealerships.

Honda claimed it was the most fuel efficient 5-passenger gasoline-powered production vehicle in the world at the time.

It was the first mainstream vehicle from Honda equipped with a gasoline-electric hybrid system and became the second hybrid model of the company after Insight.

The Civic Hybrid has the latest Integrated Motor Assist ( IMA ) parallel hybrid system, with a new 20 kW lithium-ion battery — a first for a Honda hybrid vehicle.