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Honda May Lift Output In China
Facing slowing sales in the United States, a stronger yen and rising material costs, Honda may seek a boost by expanding in one of the few countries with consistently strong growth prospects.
Honda is reportedly planning to boost its production capacity in China by about 20% to 650,000 vehicles annually to grab a larger share of the Chinese market.
Honda is producing about 530,000 vehicles a year through two Chinese joint ventures, Guangzhou Honda Automobile and Dongfeng Honda Automobile. Japan's second-largest carmaker will invest some 10 billion yen ($95.8 million) to add production lines at a Dongfeng Honda factory so as to double its capacity to 240,000 units as early as this year, the Nikkei business daily reported Thursday.
Honda, which currently has three sales networks with a total of 560 dealers across China, also plans to add another 140 dealerships by the end of this year and hopes to sell roughly 490,000 vehicles in China in 2008, up 15% from 2007, the Japanese paper said.
The car maker intends to increase the number of stores selling the Acura luxury brand from eight to 20, the Nikkei said.
Honda reported last month that it produced 3,955,483 vehicles in the fiscal year ended in March, its 11th consecutive year of record production. The carmaker sold 2,658,801 cars overseas in fiscal 2008, up 12.3% from 2007. However, sales in Japan declined 7%, the sixth straight year-on-year decrease .
Honda warned that business in the 12 months through March 2009 would be weak due to a stronger yen, rising materials costs and a soft U.S. car market.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/08/hon...partner=alertsHONDA. The finest from Japan. Since 1963.
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Civic Type R Wins Design Excellence Award
Honda’s hot hatch, Civic Type R has won the 2008 Wheels Automotive Design Award and Best Interior category.
The Civic Type R, with its futuristic looks and exceptional performance impressed the judges, receiving the highest marks for design innovation.
Wheels judges said “…there’s no denying the Honda hot hatch has a style all its own…” while judge Sally Dominguez from the ABC’s New Inventors said “brilliant and thorough realisation of original concept car. No compromise in execution. Fine, jewel-like detailing.”
Wheels Editor, Ged Bulmer added; “The Civic Type R made a strong impression on our judges at Wheels car of the Year in 2007, so it’s no surprise to see it again prominent in the Wheels Automotive Design Awards. What’s impressive about the Type R from a design perspective is the manner in which the cars overtly sporty and somewhat futuristic design cues are carried over from interior to exterior. All too often we see cars dripping in exterior aggression via wings, body kits and the like, but inside they betray their humble sedan or hatch origins. The Type R is an exception in that from every angle, inside and out, its design clearly signals its intent as a high performance machine. It has a purity of design and a single-mindedness of purpose that is extremely admirable.”
The Civic Type R beat a variety of competitors; the Audi R8, S5 and TT; the Holden VE Ute; the Renault Scenic; the Saab 9-3 Cabrio; the Volvo C30; and VW Eos.
In conjunction with the Australian International Design Awards (AIDA), this award recognises interior and exterior excellence as well as the overall design of the vehicle. The awards are open to all cars on the Australian market.
There are sixteen different assessment criteria, including innovation, visual impact and form as well as detail design.
http://www.honda.com.au/wps/wcm/conn...cellence+awardHONDA. The finest from Japan. Since 1963.
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Which Cars Get Best Gas Mileage?
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Honda's CEO gears up for next hybrid race
When CEO Takeo Fukui says he would spend $10 billion to rack up a Formula One victory for Honda, you get the sense that he really means it.
Under Fukui's five-year leadership, Honda Motor's car sales have jumped by a third and profits by an even bigger margin to a record $5.8 billion last year.
But it's the lack of an F1 win that sticks in the craw of the 63-year-old former engineer, who joined Honda precisely because it was the first Japanese automaker to enter the world's premier motor sport.
Fukui just doesn't like to lose.
"When it comes to F1, our score is zero. It kills me," Fukui, once an amateur racer himself, told a small group of reporters last week. "If I could fix it with a trillion yen I would, but it's not a problem that money can solve."
The Tokyo native is taking that same fierce competitive streak to the battle against giant Toyota Motor in gasoline-electric hybrid technology.
Toyota beat Honda to the hybrid market by two years with its Prius in 1997. The vastly improved second-generation Prius in 2003 became an instant hit, helping Japan's top automaker win a reputation overnight as the frontrunner in green technology.
Honda's own efforts have been stop-and-go. After launching the Insight two-seater in 1999, Japan's No.2 automaker discontinued sales of two underpowered hybrid models, leaving the gasoline-electric Civic and hybrid sales at a fraction of Toyota's.
Honda detailed plans last week to change that. Using technological advances that would make its hybrid system cheaper and more profitable, Honda will roll out three affordable hybrid cars over the next few years.
With gasoline prices going through the roof, Honda hopes to sell about 500,000 hybrids a year by 2015 -- nine times what it sold last year -- rivaling Toyota's own goal of boosting hybrid sales to a tenth of its total sales after 2010.
"We're losing the image game in Japan to Toyota, and that's tough to take," Fukui said, before adding that he believed Honda's environmental cachet was still superior to Toyota's in the United States, the world's biggest market.
Fukui knows what it feels like to persevere in the face of failure and end up winning big.
He got his first taste soon after joining in 1969, when Honda was mainly an engine and motorcycle maker. The first job assigned to Fukui was reducing toxic exhaust emissions from car engines -- a project that legendary founder Soichiro Honda had recently placed at the top of his priority list.
After Fukui failed several times, the late Honda, who headed R&D at the time, berated the young engineer, telling him to think out of the box, Fukui remembers.
It was sound advice. In 1974, Fukui flew to the United States for a government test that certified the vehicle based on the new CVCC engine as the first to clear the U.S. Clean Air Act based on engine performance alone.
Honda, which only started making cars in the 1960s, named the vehicle Civic, a runaway hit that helped put Honda on the global car industry map.
Occupying Honda's post decades later as head of R&D, Fukui, whom one engineer described as "cool and smart, unlike Soichiro-san, who was prone to yelling", pushed the rank and file to raise its game.
On the same day in December 2002, Honda and Toyota became the world's first automakers to put a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle on the road.
Fukui has also watched Toyota, with more than twice as many vehicle sales and nearly three times as much profit, follow Honda's lead in developing humanoid robots and airplanes.
So what about the elusive Formula One?
"We've done what needs to be done to win," said Fukui. "I think now it's only a matter of waiting."HONDA. The finest from Japan. Since 1963.
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