True to form for a company famed for its engineering prowess, Honda can’t sit still. No sooner had it launched the eagerly anticipated Type-R version of its latest Civic than engineers were commissioned to start working on possible improvements. The firm entrusted with this task was the Italian outfit JAS; its brief was to make [...]

The manufacturers of your regular 5-seater sedans market themselves as family cars. Which is all very well, but they seem to have not thought of one or two things: Some families have more than three children – I survived growing up in one. Even if you have two or three children, you occasionally need to [...]

It’s not the grandest car in the world, but the Honda Jazz maintains the manufacturer’s reputation for trustworthy but spunky vehicles with a nice gloss. Casting one’s eyes over the outside of the Jazz and the aesthetic prowess responsible for the Jazz’s capture of Japanese Car of the Year on consecutive occasions a couple of [...]

Oh golly, it’s back! The ‘hot child’, the ‘80s prodigy, the Honda City – from beyond the grave it revives in a new incarnation, still small and robust and raring to go. It may still encompass the same soul, but the body is all change, however. Sleek, smooth, stylish – and sedan. Your grandmother’s old [...]

Honda, as everyone is well aware, is a profoundly Japanese automobile manufacturer. In the genesis of the new Honda Accord Euro, though, they have decided to jettison most of the paraphernalia normally attached to such a cultural heritage, and instead aspire to hue close to a more European aesthetic. In style, in quality of design [...]