I first met Dan Wheldon in 2003, when he stepped into the cockpit of the Klein Tools/Jim Beam Indy car at Andretti Green Racing, just before the third race of the season at the Twin Ring Motegi racing track in eastern Japan.
Most Japanese automakers suffered little damage from Friday's massive earthquake and say they are recovering quickly, but there were some injuries and one death in the nation's powerful car industry.
Honda has announced a recall of nearly half a million vehicles with brake problems, just days after Toyota announced a similar recall.
When asked what the Americans with Disabilities Act means to him on its 20th anniversary, Gary Talbot pauses and says it's tough to put in words.
CNN's John Vause reports on the labor unrest hitting Honda across China.
When people think of Black Friday shopping, they usually think of things like flat screen TVs, toys and sweaters. Now you can add cars, trucks and SUVs.
Major automakers reported Tuesday that their October sales rebounded following a weak September, as an increase in the number of cars available at dealers helped to get sales moving once again.
A family of four has been found dead in a suburban Columbus, Ohio, home in what's believed to be a murder-suicide, authorities said Thursday.
The job market is off to a terrible start this year, with companies announcing more than 80,000 job losses so far, in one of the most painful symptoms of the ongoing recession.
Car sales continued to plunge in November, falling 37% from a year-ago and hitting a 26-year low just as Detroit's Big Three presented their turnaround plans to Congress.
FSB: Vintage Vroomupdated: Thu Oct 09 2008 09:10:00
It's midmorning of a cool May day on the California coast. Standing amid rolling fairways and tightly trimmed greens, entrepreneurs Jared and Brooke Zaugg are basking in the glory of their creation, not a golf tournament but a celebration of machinery. Today the Ocean Course links, wrapped around the Ritz-Carlton hotel at Half Moon Bay, are home to the third annual Legend of the Motorcycle Concours d'Elegance.
Automatic/drive-through car washes are more popular than ever because they save time and hassle. And in winter, they also save you from the ordeal of trying to keep your car clean in freezing weather.
U.S. stocks were poised to open lower Thursday as skepticism grew over a global plan aimed at fighting the credit crisis and investors awaited a slew of economic readings and earnings from Lehman Brothers.
The number of new cars considered the safest by the insurance industry nearly tripled in the past year
Formula One doesn't have the Chase, and its technical specifications allow equipment to be as unequal as money can buy. It's diametric to the Nextel Cup in how many teams and drivers have a chance to win the championship in a typical season.
U.S. auto sales were soft in September, with results ranging from a jump at Honda Motor to a steep drop at Ford Motor.
General Motors reaches a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers union. CNN's Kate Bolduan reports.
Honda and Toyota offered U.S. consumers the highest average fuel efficiency of 2007 model year vehicles, the government reported Wednesday.
The most important labor talks in the history of the U.S. auto industry face a Friday deadline, but those hoping for a deal to let automakers shed about $100 billion in health-care liabilities and become more competitive with Japanese rivals may have to wait, as talks are now expected to go into overtime.
U.S. stocks were set to pull back a bit Tuesday, giving back some of the gains garnered late last week, as Wall Street returned from an extended holiday weekend.
U.S. stock were mixed at the start of trading Tuesday as investors awaited key reports on construction, manufacturing and auto sales.
Credit agencies under fire
Honda Motor Co. beat forecasts with a 16 percent rise in quarterly profit after increased exports and currency gains outweighed higher raw material and sales costs, and it lifted its full-year forecasts to reflect a softer yen.
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. said it would halt production on Monday at all of its plants while Honda Motor Co. Ltd. plans to stop output at three factories after an earthquake cut supplies from a parts maker.
Auburn University senior Kerron Stewart has been chosen as the nation's top female track and field athlete for 2007. The honor is based on the results of national balloting among 1,000 NCAA member schools as part of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program, now in its 31st year. Stewart's victory will earn her the Honda Sports Award, given annually to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports, along with an automatic nomination for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.
A bidding war for a major European bank and good earnings from an online retailing bellwether could help lift stocks at the start Wednesday, ahead of the latest reading on home building.
According to last Friday's New York Times, Honda is aiming to be known as the safety company. Honda, says the Times,"is promoting safety as an essential part of its public image" and "wants to join Volvo as an automaker best known for safety."
Honda Motor Co. said on Tuesday it would recall about 166,000 vehicles in the United States, including the Accord, Odyssey and five other models to fix a faulty component in the fuel pump.
Honda Motor Co. is recalling 81,000 Accord sedans in the United States because of faulty wiring in an airbag sensor on the driver's side, U.S. regulators said Friday.
CNNMoney: Late trading stocksupdated: Wed Oct 25 2006 15:38:00
Here are some stocks that were moving in late trading Wednesday:
Stocks futures indicated a mixed open on Wall Street Wednesday as investors anxiously await the latest interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ranks no. 31 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $87.5 billion in revenues, up 8.7% from the previous year. The Tokyo, Japan-based company was ranked no. 27 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $5.3 billion, up 16.6% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ranks no. 31 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $87.5 billion in revenues, up 8.7% from the previous year. The Tokyo, Japan-based company was ranked no. 27 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $5.3 billion, up 16.6% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
Wall Street was poised for a modestly lower start Wednesday after Amazon.com's earnings came in below expectations, although it could get a boost from much better-than-expected results from General Motors.
Honda Motors' designers are looking to American singer Gwen Stefani for ideas on how to incorporate more Japanese cues into their vehicles, according to a published report.
CNNMoney: Most-stolen carsupdated: Tue Nov 08 2005 09:19:00
The 1995 Honda Civic was the most-stolen car during 2004, according to statistics from the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Stocks looked set to open higher Friday after a report showed the economy growing faster than expected.
Japanese stocks ended higher Wednesday, taking a cue from advances on Wall Street, but couldn't hold the key 12,000 level. Regional bourses closed mixed.
Honda Motor Co. rolled out its newest car for the U.S. market yesterday, notable for its unexpected trunk space. That's because the trunk is located in the bed of the company's first pickup truck, the Ridgeline
Forget about hopped-up Mustangs and high-octane Hemis; today's hot-rodders prefer Honda Civics and nitrous-oxide upgrade kits. Known as "tuners"--a reference to their exquisitely tuned, highly cust...
With automakers turning out record numbers of models, car lovers have never had more to choose from. But trying to pick a single "best car" is a sure way to start an argument. We decided to pick ei...
Honda Motor is the Peter Pan of the auto business--the company that refuses to grow up. As the youngest of the world's major automakers, and one of the few to remain independent, it revels in its i...
What about companies beyond our shores? FORTUNE tracks them too. A poll last fall of 10,000 executives, directors, and analysts from the U.S. and 21 other countries found that America dominates in ...
WALK INTO A FACTORY of one of Japan's industrial giants and what do you see? Workers in starched uniforms go about their tasks without wasted motion. The equipment is the best available, workspaces...
To beat rush-hour traffic, more executives in London are hopping onto the back seats of motorcycle taxis for their ride to Heathrow airport. The trip runs nearly $50 from central London, about the ...
REMEMBER those Honda TV commercials with the klutzy salesmen? The point was that their ineptness didn't matter, because the cars were so good they sold themselves. Stop action! Those autos aren't f...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Feb 22 1993 00:01:00
-- PEHR GYLLENHAMMAR, 57, executive chairman of Volvo, on the possibility that the Clinton Administration will raise the gasoline tax: ''Compared with what Europeans pay, gas in the U.S. is practic...
AN ELECTRIC SIGN on the tenth floor of worldwide headquarters in Tokyo symbolizes Honda's long, widely admired tradition of making decisions by consensus. It flags the location of each of 32 top ex...
After building sales in the U.S. with the help of hefty rebates earlier in the year, Honda is now trying to revive its sagging fortunes back home with an itsy-bitsy sports convertible called the Be...
Fortune: THE CLEAN CAR 500updated: Mon May 06 1991 00:01:00
Mom could probably outstrip these hot rods in her station wagon. But 20,000 spectators would have booed her -- and her dirty wheels -- off the track at the first annual Solar and Electric 500 auto ...
As his father tells it, the first words ever spoken by Nobuhiko Kawamoto, the new president of Honda Motor, sounded like a car engine revving up. As a student at Tohoku University, the young Kawamo...
Fortune: Signals updated: Mon Jun 20 1988 00:01:00
Chrysler announced that it had begun equipping six car models with driver-side air bags as standard equipment, becoming the first U.S. carmaker to do so. Air bags are already standard in BMW, Merce...
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ITS MOST CELEBRATED executive is an American (Chrysler's Lee A. Iacocca), its most prestigious brand is European (Mercedes-Benz), and its most feared competitors are the Japanese (many of them). On...
As millions of American tourists take Europe by storm, a growing number of ! American investors are starting to turn away from European stock markets. Until recently these countries' stocks were ch...
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