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ホンダ・パイロットは、2008年のノース・アメリカン・インターナショナル・オートショウでパイロット・プロトタイプとして発表されました。その頃から、基本的な仕様は変わっていません。特徴的なヘッドライトが変更され、なじみ易いヘッドランプになりました。フォグランプのハウジングは当初より多少四角い形状になりました。テールライトも安価なものに変更されました。2009年型ホンダ・パイロットは、3列のシートに8人が座ることができます。ホンダの他のモデルと同じく、パイロットも安全性を最優先した設計になっています。高レベルの安全性でドライバーや同乗者を保護します。ホンダ・パイロットはサイドカーテン・エアバッグとデュアルチャンバー、フロントサイド・エアバッグ、OPDS(Occupant Position Detection System)、アクティブ・フロントシート・ヘッド・レストレインを搭載しています。アクティブ・フロントシート・ヘッド・レストレインは、後方からの衝突時の衝撃を大幅に軽減し、運転者の首を重大な怪我から守ります。


来たる10月にパリで開催される車のショーでホンダは、最新ヴァージョンの新しく小さいハイブリッド車を披露する事になるだろう。 この車は1999年にアメリカとヨーロッパで初めて大量生産されたホンダのハイブリッドモデル車の名前に引き続き、ニューホンダ・インサイトと命名される。インサイト・スポーツは独特なスタイルと洗練されたデザイン、FCX明快なガソリン燃料電池のスタイルのヒントを共有している。ホンダの宣伝部によると新しいインサイトは、未来派のハッチバックの5ドアと、ホンダのモーターアシスト(IMA)と統合したより燃費の良い物として利用できるだろう。車の中心への低い重力、5つのドア、折りたためる後部座席はスタイルの良さと機能を提供したデザインとなっている。IMA システムはホンダ・インサイト車を1番購入しやすいハイブリッド車にし、より燃費の良さを成し遂げ顧客を助ける技術を提供している。インサイトは2009年の春から販売予定となっている。

2009 Honda CR-V

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Honda CRV 2009 has retained much of the features and some designs of its predecessor. You can choose between the five passenger SUV’s front wheel or its all wheel drive. It has three trim levels namely, LX, EX and its top of the line, EX-L which has an elegantly leathered upholstery. It has a 166hp 2.4liter 4 cylinder engine, 5 speed automatic transmission. It has towing capacity of 1500lbs. It provides standard safety features such as ABS, traction control, anti skid system, curtain side and front side airbags. Honda RVC EX-L has a power driver seat and an automatic dual-zone climate control. It also provides a navigation system, perfect for traveling anywhere.

2009 Honda Pilot

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The Honda Pilot was released at the 2008 North American International Auto Show as the Pilot Prototype. Not much has changed from that time. The futuristic headlights discarded, and fitted with more affordable headlamps. The fog lamp housing was changed to a kind of boxy type. The rearlights have been adjusted with cheaper versions. The 2009 Honda Pilot can seat 8 people spread on 3 rows of seating. The Pilot, as with any other Honda models pursued the vehicle’s safety as its main priority. It had hoped to offer a high level of protection for its riders and passengers. Honda Pilot employs side curtain airbags and dual chamber, front-side airbags and OPDS or Occupant Position Detection System and an active front seat head restraints. This reduces greatly, sever neck injury from collissions in the rear side.


This October, Honda will reveal at the Paris Auto Show the latest version of their new small hybrid vehicle. This car will be named the new Honda Insight, following the name of Honda’s first mass-production hybrid model to the U.S. and Europe back in 1999. The Insight sports a unique style and sophisticated design, sharing styling cues with the FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle. According to Honda’s press release, the new Insight is a futuristic five-door hatcback that will utilize a more cost-efficient version of Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA). It is designed with a low center of gravity, five-door access, and folding rear seats that offers style and functionality. The IMA system will make the Insight the most affordable hybrid vehicle. It will also utilize technologies to assist customers in achieving more fuel efficient driving habits. The Insight is set to go on sale in the Spring of 2009.


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The 2009 Honda Pilot is a crossover SUV that seats nine passengers in a 3-row interior setting. It was first revealed as the Pilot Prototype at the North American Auto Show last March.

The car has a 5-speed automatic communication and is powered by a 250-hp 3.5-liter V6. It is like an enhanced version of the first production Honda Pilot. The engineers at Honda added more passenger and cargo space to the car and it seems to work quite well. The car’s value is just right for the improved power and economy features.

If you’re someone who’s adventurous, then this solid crossover is for you. They may have gone overboard with the detailed styling of the lights and the corrugated fuel filler cap, but there is no rejecting that nothing so practical ever came out so styled.

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To be the most pre-eminent team technical director in modern formula one with Ferrari, Brawn establishes himself, by that he forms a partnership with Schumacher the one who was instrumental in reviving the fortunes of the storied team. As he is gifted German, driving underpinned by the British boffin’s behind the scenes management of Ferrari technical operations and his strategic mastery from the pit wall.

Honda S2000 gets safer

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“The S2000 has always been the very most exiting and great performance car, some of the found car was a bit too edgy in some conditions, but its latest changes made the S2000 even more fun to drive even it is predictable, it would give you more confidence,” According to one of the men of Honda.


A new model in the line of Honda which will be released to the market of Japan is the Honda Freed Minivan.

Built on a platform of the Honda Civic, the minivan will be equipped with 1.5 liter, 118 horsepower engine which is also installed on the Honda Fit. The dimensions of this vehicle is 4 215 mm in length, 1 695 mm in width and height of 1 515 and can fit in 8 passengers.

Great vehicle for the family, a compact van for everyone to enjoy.

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Honda’s Ridgeline pickup truck is due for an update and an overhaul is on the way. The new look of the Ridgeline will be topped with a new front-end design consists of a new grille and a revised front bumper which looks similar to an early prototype of the next-generation Honda Pilot.

No major modifications are revealed yet for the Ridgeline’s rear end but that could change closer to production and no technical details have been released. Hybrid power was rumored as a possibility in 2009, but it’s unlikely before the second-generation Ridgeline debuts in 2011.

This means to that the truck business is highly competitive and Honda knows it needs to keep the Ridgeline fresh in order to play with the big boys.

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