Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Linkin Park and Incubus Co-Headline 2012 Honda Civic Tour

Tour to Support New Linkin Park Album 'Living Things'

4/16/2012 11:55:00 AM

Honda announced today that multi-platinum alternative rock bands Linkin Park and Incubus will be co-headlining the 2012 Honda Civic Tour. The tour will kick off August 11th in Bristow, Virginia at the Jiffy Lube Live amphitheatre. In addition to the two headliners, the Civic Tour will also feature the Grammy®-nominated electrorock band Mutemath.
Tickets go on-sale to the general public the weekend of April 27, but those who pre-order the new Linkin Park album, "Living Things" through their website will be able to buy tickets for the tour beginning April 24. Additionally, Linkin Park fan club members will be able to buy tickets starting April 23 and will have the opportunity to gain early access to the venues and are eligible for meet and greets with the band.
Now entering its 11th year, the Honda Civic Tour has provided music fans with an amazing concert experience at an affordable price. Continuing a Civic Tour tradition, fans will have an opportunity to check out Linkin Park's customized and autographed Honda Civic Si Coupe and Honda CBR250R motorcycle, which will be displayed at every tour stop.
For pre-sale information, "like" the Honda Civic Tour Facebook page and visit www.hondacivictour.com to receive tour news, sign up for email updates and see the entire Civic Tour schedule.
Honda Civic Tour Dates:
United States:
8/11 Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live*
8/12 Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena*
8/14 Boston, MA @ Comcast Center
8/17 Camden, NJ @ Susquehana Bank Center
8/19 Atlanta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/21 Detroit, MI @ The Palace
8/22 Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
8/24 Chicago, IL @ First Midwest Bank
8/25 Indianapolis, IN @ Klipsch Music Center
8/27 Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Center
8/28 Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Pavillion
8/30 Denver, CO @ Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
9/5   Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
9/7   Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
9/10 San Diego, CA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
*Incubus will not appear at this event
About the Honda Civic
One of the best-selling compact cars in the United States, the Civic features a lineup of six distinct models: the conventional gasoline-powered Civic Sedan and Civic Coupe, two high-performance Civic Si models, gasoline-electric Civic Hybrid, the Civic Natural Gas and Civic HF high fuel economy model. The Civic lineup embodies the Honda brand values of 'clean, safe and fun' with two Civic models achieving EPA-estimated fuel economy ratings1 of over 40 mpg on the highway. The Civic sedan has earned top safety ratings from NHTSA and a 'TOP SAFETY PICK' designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Now in its ninth-generation, the Civic remains one of the most fun-to-drive compact cars on the road today.
¹ Based on 2012 EPA mileage estimates. Use for comparison purposes only. Do not compare to models before 2008. Your actual mileage will vary depending on how you drive and maintain your vehicle.
² MSRP excluding tax, license, registration, $750.00 destination charge and options. Dealer prices may vary.

Friday, April 27, 2012

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

I am…. A Honda Driver

From the big screens of the world today comes news of the biggest defection in the world of fast cars since Ayrton Senna ditched his McLaren for a Williams. Here's Tony Stark in a... Honda. Yeah, Iron Man, who single-handedly made the Audi R8 the supercar of choice for 10-year olds has switched... to the new NSX.

Acura - posh Hondas in the USA - are saying only that Stark's car is a one-off prototype created for the new documentary about the playboy industrialist's life Avengers Assemble. But it sure does look like a new NSX, only with the roof missing. Stark, known for his passionate commitment to alternative power sources, is said to have be unimpressed with the rate of development of Audi's e-tron project.

"If I can build an Arc Reactor in a cave in Afghanistan with only rudimentary tools and my own genius, what's taking those suckers in Inglostadt so long?" said the chairman of Stark Industries.

Top Gear can exclusively confirm the NSX does not feature Arc Reactor power, but instead has a series of electric motors to compliment and boost the output of a high-revving, mid-mounted V6 engine. Two smaller motors in the front wheels make the car effectively four wheel drive (like the R8), but are designed to perform independently creating the same torque-vectoring characteristics as the best front drive cars and McLaren's MP4-12C (via brake application) and a small selection of all-wheel drive cars (with traditional and e-diffs).

Read about the new Honda NSX here

There's another electric engine squeezed in with the engine and transmission that operates more like a conventional hybrid. And the NSX is light, although it is not thought Stark Industries has shared the nickel-single crystal titanium alloy used in the Iron Man suit.

"As a extremely high-net worth customer - and we mean extremely - we cannot comment on Mr Stark's choice of cars," said an Audi spokesperson "But as a connoisseur of fine automobiles he'll still have his R8s tucked up in his garage" (Audi did actually say this to us).

The Avengers documentary also provides evidence that Stark's defection from Audi has caught the attention of Nick Fury, Director of the S.H.I.E.L.D operation. Fury has allocated a specially modified Acura MDX to all his agents, although it is believed he was unable to persuade Captain America to abandon his custom Harley-Davidson.

"We do have a supply deal with S.H.I.E.L.D," confirmed an Acura spokesman. "All its agents, including Mr Stark, now drive our cars. Well, I say all. We're struggling with the Hulk. Sometimes all he needs is a Jazz, other days...." (Acura didn't actually say this to us. Although we wish they did).

Friday, April 20, 2012

Linkin Park + Incubus To Headline 2012 Honda Civic Tour

Linkin Park and Incubus will headline the 2012 Honda Civic Tour with support coming from MuteMath.

8/11 Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live (no Incubus)
8/12 Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena (no Incubus)
8/14 Boston, MA @ Comcast Center
8/17 Camden, NJ @ Susquehana Bank Center
8/19 Atlanta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
8/21 Detroit, MI @ The Palace
8/22 Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
8/24 Chicago, IL @ First Midwest Bank
8/25 Indianapolis, IN @ Klipsch Music Center
8/27 Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Center
8/28 Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Pavillion
8/30 Denver, CO @ Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
9/5 Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
9/7 Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
9/10 San Diego, CA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Honda Rolls Out ‘Green Dealer’ Program for US Stores, Encourages Energy Conservation

April 19, 2012 | TORRANCE, Calif.

By Auto Remarketing Staff

Honda Odyssey

American Honda Motor Co. revealed this week the establishment of what it has titled a “green dealer” program for its independently-owned Honda and Acura dealers in the U.S.
The program offers three achievement levels: Silver, Gold and Platinum.
And the “Honda Environmental Leadership Award and Acura Environmental Leadership Award will be given to dealers who quantifiably reduce their environmental impact, beginning with a minimum 10 percent reduction in total energy use at their dealerships,” officials explained.
Highlighting the different levels, Silver-level dealers must achieve a 10 percent reduction in total energy use, develop a water use reduction plan and implement a comprehensive recycling program.

Gold-level dealers must achieve continuous improvement in their reduction and conservation goals above and beyond the Silver level.

And the top-level Platinum award is reserved for dealers whose facilities earn LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, officials explained.
That said, 10 dealers have already received the award, 18 more have applied to be in the program and more than 200 dealers have independently developed initiatives to reduce their environmental impact.
Commenting on the program Steven Center, vice president of the American Honda Environmental Business Development Office, noted, “We’ve designed this program around what we feel are both challenging but achievable targets that are within the reach of most of our 1,300 U.S. Honda and Acura dealers. Now our goal is to engage as many of them as possible in our program, and together achieve the broadest possible benefit for our environment.”
Giving some background on the program, Honda introduced the voluntary program to its dealers at national sales meetings held last fall, “generating interest among hundreds of Honda and Acura dealers,” the OEM noted.
The company uses a third party evaluator to conduct environmental audits of participating dealers and recommend strategies for reducing their energy use.
The OEM also provided a list of dealers who have already earned the Honda or Acura Environmental Leadership Award.

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Monday, March 12, 2012

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

2012 Honda Civic Hybrid: Hammer It, How High Is Gas Mileage?

2012 Honda Civic Hybrid, road test, Spring 2011

Honda has managed to raise the gas mileage ratings on all of its new 2012 Civic models, including the 2012 Civic Hybrid, which is rated at a combined 44 mpg.

In a road test over several days last May, we managed to get a real-world 45.3 mpg over a route that was about two-thirds highway, one-thirds local.

But, we wondered how the Honda Civic Hybrid would fare if we hammered it in aggressive real-world usage.

This past weekend, we tested the new hybrid Civic by running it up and down the hills of San Francisco.

Then we hit the the local freeways at speeds that reflected not the speed limits but the pace of prevailing traffic (and perhaps a bit more), and drove it at the height of the Bay Area's grim, aggressive, stop-and-go rush-hour traffic.

The result? While the average mileage varied quite a lot over the course of our 148-mile trip, we ended up at 37.3 mpg.

Mileage in pure city use ranged from 28 to 32 mpg, while a lengthy stint of highway mileage took us up to 40 mpg.

2012 Honda Civic Hybrid

With a few hundred more miles of that, we suspect we'd have gotten closer to our 45-mpg result from last spring.

That's pretty good for any compact sedan in mixed use, and with slightly gentler driving, we're confident the Civic Hybrid would deliver more than 40 mpg across a variety of duty cycles and average speeds.

Beyond gas mileage, we had the same reactions to the 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid that we did in May.

MORE: 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid: Multi-Day Drive Review

It's an awkward car to drive smoothly, especially in stop-and-go traffic when the engine may switch off just as you want to move forward. That applied especially to the four-way stops at every intersection in San Francisco neighborhoods.

The Civic Hybrid is relatively comfortable, fairly well equipped, and otherwise utterly anonymous as only a Civic can be.

So, while we didn't change our views of the car, we did confirm that even in aggressive use, you'll still get better gas mileage than a non-hybrid Civic model under the same circumstances.

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HI-RES GALLERY: 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid, road test, Spring 2011