The all-new 2009 Honda Insight hybrid will make its world debut in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The five-passenger, five-door Insight will go on sale in the spring of 2009.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced a summary of automobile production, Japan domestic market sales, and export results for the month of October 2008, including all-time records for any month for worldwide auto production.

In a recent interview by auto163.com, Honda President Takeo Fukui said he didn’t think highly of BYD’s research and development of electric cars.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. held The FCX Clarity Experience Opening, a special event introducing the advanced fuel cell vehicle to children. The event featured a presentation on the structure and function of fuel cells and rides in the FCX Clarity on public streets, providing children an opportunity to learn more about environmental issues, dream their own dreams of advanced technology, and experience the wonder of the FCX Clarity by seeing and touching the actual vehicle.

Last week at the Guangzhou auto show, Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAIC) revealed that its two subsidiaries "Guangzhou Toyota" and "Guangzhou Honda" will be renamed as "GAIC Toyota" and "GAIC Honda" (or "Guangzhou Auto Toyota" and "Guangzhou Auto Honda"?), and the two joint ventures with Japanese auto giants will be required to pay for using the Guangzhou Auto trademark, said the Beijing News today.

Honda Motor Co has revised up its sales target in China to 500,000 vehicles on a strong year-to-date sales in the market, Jinghua newspaper reported today.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that sales in Japan of the all-new Life will begin on November 7, 2008. Continuing a tradition of superior comfort and utility, the new Life offers enhanced drivability and is the first minicar in Japan to include an audio system with a backup camera as standard equipment.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced plans to build a new automobile transmission plant within its Hamamatsu Factory in order to strengthen production of automobile automatic transmissions (AT) and continuously variable transmissions (CVT), to meet growing global demand.

The Honda Racing F1 Team will give 2008 GP2 Series title contender Bruno Senna his first experience of a Formula One car in Barcelona later this month.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that Honda's cumulative worldwide motorcycle production reached the 200 million-unit milestone at the end of September 2008. Honda achieved this milestone in the 60th year since the company began motorcycle production in 1949 with the Dream D-type.

Honda's wholly-owned solar cell subsidiary Honda Soltec Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kikuchi-gun, Kumamoto; President and CEO: Akio Kazusa) will begin sales throughout Japan of thin-film solar cells for public and industrial use on October 24, 2008.

Dongfeng Honda officially confirmed that it will roll out a B-class car based on the Acura platform by the second half of 2009, Beijing Times said today, citing top executives of Dongfeng Honda Automobile.