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The Legacy of Bridgestone’s Founder Include The Nissan Leaf and GT-R

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Hans | February 01, 2018

Born on this day 1-February in 1889 to a family of tailors in the city of Kurume, Japan, Shojiro Ishibashi’s name is often lost in the footnotes of any discussions involving icons of Japan’s automobile industry. Many are aware of names like Soichiro...

We Visit The World’s Only Source Of Honda Hybrid Dual Clutch Transmissions

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Hans | January 03, 2018

Established in 1960, Honda Motor’s Suzuka plant is its third oldest. Only the the Saitama plant (opened in 1950, now combined with Saitama Factory) and Hamamatsu Factory (currently known as Hamamatsu Transmission Factory) predates the Suzuka plant. Today...

Reasons To Exist, We Drove Honda’s Clarity Fuel Cell To Learn The Meaning Of Ikigai

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Hans | January 02, 2018

There are companies who exist to make money for their investors, and there are companies who exist to solve problems of our world. The former prefers to public relations, announce token electrification projects to keep up with trends, and are usually...

Resurrecting Number 57 - Barn Find Porsche 911 Becomes Storied Museum Piece

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Arvind | December 18, 2017

One August morning, Alexander Klein, Manager of the Classic Car Collection at the Porsche Museum received a phone call after 50-years of waiting.Well not him solely, let me explain.For 50 years, the Porsche factory collection had lacked an early-model...

Conversations With Mercedes-Benz’s Head of Autonomous Driving and Active Safety

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Hans | December 15, 2017

When Bertha Benz commandeered her husband Karl’s 1886 Patentwagen and made that history-making drive from Mannheim to Pforzheim in 1888, roads were populated by horses. Instead of car parks, establishments had horse hitching posts. There were no petrol...

Honda Type R – Origins And How Malaysia Succeeded When Others Said No

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Hans | November 29, 2017

February 1989 in Suzuka circuit with F1 legend Ayrton Senna behind the wheel of a prototype Honda NSX. "I’m not sure I can really give you appropriate advice on a mass-production car, but I feel it’s a little fragile," commented Senna to Honda engineers....

Adventurer Extraordinaire And G-Class Ambassador Mike Horn Makes Pit Stop In Malaysia

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Hans | November 25, 2017

Unless your idea of a holiday involves scaling up the Himalayas or braving the Pacific Ocean on a sail boat, chances are you might not have heard of Mike Horn. In 1999, Mike became the first person in the world to sail solo around the equator with no aid...

The Skyline Legend Was Born Over 50 Years Ago

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Aswan | November 23, 2017

When you talk about legendary Japanese cars, there is one particular line of cars that you cannot avoid discussing. It's Nissan's Skyline GT-R, and it's a series of cars that became a hit- at first within the Japanese domestic market and, in later...

One Ford Dealer In Arizona Is Personally Teaching Customers About Their Cars

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Aswan | November 20, 2017

With the sheer number of features that cars come equipped with these days, it's no surprise that many customers can feel a little overwhelmed in trying to learn how everything works; the result is a lot of these features may end up going unused as...

Perodua Myvi D20N A.S.A. – What It Can And Cannot Do

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Kon | November 17, 2017

The recently-launched all-new Perodua Myvi makes headlines for its impressively competitive levels of equipment which, to recap, comes with LED headlights and keyless entry as standard for all model grades.But perhaps the biggest stride was made in the...

How A Letter From A Disabled Woman To Honda Changed Japan

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Hans | November 15, 2017

“Both my hands are disabled. Is there a way for people like myself to drive? My mother always does the driving, but one day I’d like her to be the passenger,” reads a letter sent by Noriko Tsuji to Honda in 1981.Noriko was one of the unfortunate victims...

Mazda G-Vectoring Control – How It Works

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Eric | November 15, 2017

In keeping true to their Jinba Ittai philosophy, Mazda continuously finds methods to improve the driveability of their cars. G-Vectoring Control, or GVC in short, is one of such solutions aimed to improve Mazda’s already excellent handling prowess.While...

All-New Honda Civic Type R FK8 Accepts RON 95, But Makes 10PS Less

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Kon | November 09, 2017

Owners of the legendary Honda Civic Type R FD2 will tell you all about their car’s appetite for high octane fuel. Its high-revving naturally-aspirated 2.0-litre K20A engine is well-known for its requirement of RON 98 fuel, meaning nothing less than Shell...

Honda Engineer Buys Civic Type R, And Waits In Line For It

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Kon | November 09, 2017

The surest way to express pride and confidence in one’s own creation is to actually buy and own the said product.Hideki Kakinuma is the Assistant Large Project Leader of the FK8 Honda Civic Type R, a car which he is rightly and unsurprisingly proud of,...

The Young, Avid Motorcyclist Who Designed Honda's Sports EV Concept

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Hans | November 09, 2017

When every show stage of nearly every major car maker at every major motor show is peddling similar looking electric powered self-driving lounge on wheels concept cars, as a car enthusiasts you can’t be very excited about the future. So when we saw the...

A Vision Of The Future: Talking To Two Of Mazda's Top Designers

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Aswan | November 01, 2017

When it comes to automotive design, concept cars function in multiple different roles. They may not always make it to production, but they are at times more than just pretty design pieces destined to sit in a museum of some sort. Concept cars can be as...

When Honda Invented The World’s First In-Car Navigation System

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Hans | October 25, 2017

What you see here, an exhibit at the Honda Collection Hall at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Tochigi, Japan, is the world’s first commercially available in-car navigation system. Launched in 1981, well before Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) services...

Parenthood & Motoring – Keeping The Kids Safe In Your Car

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Kon | October 20, 2017

Parenthood changes your life and priorities completely. That’s the common wisdom, and it is one I can testify from personal experience having welcomed my first newborn into the family just a couple of months ago.More than just being a bundle of joy, a...