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November Auto Sales Highest Since Recession
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 12:31pm | 556Read More...November vehicle sales in the U.S. were the best in more than six years, according to The Wall Street Journal. An improving economic picture is clearly partly responsible. General Motors (NYSE: GM) Vice President Kurt McNeil told The Wall Street Journal, "We feel good about the direction of the...
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Honda Announces Massive Recall Involving Over 320,000 Cars and SUVs
Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 1:47pm | 537Read More...Honda (NYSE: HMC) is recalling 166,000 small SUVs and 6,200 luxury cars in the United States, along with thousands more throughout the rest of the world. The Japanese automaker said there may be a problem with the doors of the 2012 CR-V and the 2013 Acura ILX. According to Reuters, no accidents or...
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Does Ford Suffer from a Case of Honda or Hyundai Envy?
Monday, January 9, 2012 - 11:06am | 879Read More...Think Ford First, says the automaker. So why are new Ford cars making us think of Honda and Hyundai instead? It all started with the redesigned Ford (NYSE: F) Escape, which looks painfully similar to the Honda (NYSE: HMC) CR-V. After writing about the similarities last fall, many readers chimed in...
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Is Ford a Leader or a Follower?
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 10:04am | 954Read More...Ford is known for manufacturing some of the best and most original vehicles available. So why is the new Escape a clone of the Honda CR-V? The obvious (if not painful) answer is that Ford (NYSE: F) liked what it saw, valued the success of one of its competitors, and simply wished to imitate Honda...
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Honda Motors Recalls 2.49M Cars
Friday, August 5, 2011 - 2:26pm | 370Read More...Reuters is reporting that Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) has announced a recall for 1.5 million of its CR-V, Accord, and Element models in the U.S with almost another million cars from Chinese and Canadian markets. Honda is recalling the 2007 to 2010 CR-V, the 2005 to 2010 four-cylinder Accord, and the...
