While many Japanese aftermarket tuners are taking on the newest models including many of them turning towards European applications, J’s Racing has stuck to what they know best: Hondas. The company’s booth wasn’t overwhelmingly large, but it was clear that J’s Racing is aware of the new Hybrid-tuning craze..

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Here's the car that Honda hopes will finally make hybrids cool! This is the CR-Z – which made its world debut in production form at the Detroit Motor Show and will go on sale in the UK in the summer, priced at around £17,000. Billed as the world's first hybrid sports car, it is powered by Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) system, which is shared with the Insight.

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The latest lessee of one of Honda's FCX Clarity fuel cell sedans is Scott Niedermayer. As captain of both the Anaheim Ducks of the NHL and the Canadian Olympic hockey team, Niedermayer is the first athlete to get one of the hydrogen-powered Hondas. The hockey star currently lives in Orange County near Los Angeles, making him eligible to get one of the fuel cell machines since he has access to fuel.

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At the Delhi Auto Expo in India this week, Honda's local operation is showing off a concept creatively named "New Small Concept." Hopefully they didn't pay some overpriced marketing company much for that one. Regardless of what the car is called, it's actually an interesting design for a low-cost, five-door hatchback, adopting many of the styling cues found on the new CR-Z hybrid coupe.

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The Honda NSX might be gone, but it's set to live on as the HSV-10 GT in Japan's SuperGT championship. Although we don't have an official release or specs yet, we do have the image above and some preliminary details on the HSV-10 GT or Velocity Sports Honda.

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Though the Honda Insight is handily outpacing sales projections in its home market of Japan, sales in the rest of the world are falling well short of expectations. Of the 200,000 Insights Honda had hoped to sell annually, 100,000 of those were supposed to come from the American market, 60,000 from Japan and the final 40,000 from Europe.

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Heated leather seats, a nav system, voice-activated Bluetooth, a moonroof, and XM satellite radio, all on a Honda Civic? Are you kidding? If you've known the Civic as a source of inexpensive, economical transportation in the past, it's easy to think that on first glance at the feature set of our test 2010 Honda Civic EX-L Sedan—and its price tag: $24,515.

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The Element, the ugly duckling of the Honda lineup, will live on for a second generation. According to a report by Automotive News, Honda VP John Mendel has confirmed that despite the car’s underachieving sales numbers there are good reasons to introduce a modernized version of the functional box.

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Don't call it a relaunch. The first round of U.S. ads for the new Honda Insight defined the car as "the hybrid for everyone" and made a big deal about the Insight's low price compared to the Prius. They showed all sorts of people enjoying the Insight, but didn't exactly put the car's eco-benefits front and center.

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After nearly a full year in our fleet, can we start drawing conclusions on our Four Seasons Honda Fit Sport? Yes -- and senior Web editor Phil Floraday can narrow it down to a few highlights. "Some cars age very well, and generate thousands upon thousands of words detailing every minute spent in our fleet," he writes. "I think our Fit can be summed up with a short list.

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Honda's face-lift for the 2010 CR-V may be mild, but in my mind, it helps clean up the front fascia of the car. Not only have designers reduced the use of the argent plastic cladding along the lower edge of the front bumper, but they've also stylized the grille by widening the upper openings and removing the chrome bars from the lower section.

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Among mainstream brands, consumers still rate Honda and Toyota highest in quality—whether that is or isn't the case on actual quality surveys. But Ford is quickly gaining ground. That's according to the latest Perceived Quality Study (PQS), from residual values expert Automotive Leasing Guide (ALG). Perceived quality sometimes fails to mirror actual quality.

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The future is a common theme at most auto shows, and the future most carmakers have seen lately is a highly compact, enviro-friendly urban environment. To remain relevant in such a market, cars will have to shrink, adapt and go very high-tech, at least if the concepts are to be believed. Honda's latest, the Personal-Neo Urban Transport--yes, P-NUT--offers a new look at that theme.

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If it seems we've been skipping the maintenance details surrounding our Honda Fit Sport, we haven't. Truth is, our Fit has been one of the most reliable, trouble-free vehicles to grace our Four Seasons fleet.

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The base EX model of Honda’s new Accord Crosstour is priced from $30,380 (including a $710 destination charge). The EX models are equipped with cloth seats, a 360-watt audio system, 17-inch aluminum wheels, power moonroof, and fog lamps as standard equipment. The model has a 271-hp, 3.5-liter V-6 that sends power to the front wheels via a five-speed automatic transmission.

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