There are many other family-friendly, fun-to-drive vehicles, like the Mazda CX-5 or Honda's own CR-V, that get better fuel economy.
It retains a 44% market share in Japan, almost three times that of Nissan or Honda, its main domestic competitors.
There is a reason why even patriotic Malaysians are paying 110, 000 ringgit for a 1.6-litre Toyota or Honda when a similar-sized Proton costs less than 60, 000 ringgit.
Moving seven passengers with greater efficiency leads to the consideration of lesser (and smaller) vehicles, like the GMC Acadia Denali, or a minivan like the Toyota Sienna or Honda Odyssey.
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It has 6, 500 now and needs only 2, 000, says Merrill Lynch. (That's assuming it matches the 1, 000 annual sales per dealership of Toyota, Nissan or Honda.) Absent a bankruptcy, getting rid of dealers is tricky because they're protected by state franchise laws.
Police want to speak to anyone who witnessed either collision or spotted the Honda while it was travelling from Station Road towards the A38.
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If you're playing on a city street, please don't dent the blue Honda, or I will find you.
The hype about hydrogen fuel cell cars has died down in the last year or so, but Honda hasn't noticed.
So their overall profit margins were roughly 2% each in the year to last March, compared with 8% or more at Toyota, Honda and Nissan, each of which thrives in America.
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When GM hung its dealers out to dry, they became Honda, Toyota, or Volkswagen dealers.
That's like throwing away 62 Boeing 747 jumbo jets daily, or driving 8, 730 new Honda Civics into a landfill each morning.
It has all the flair of a late-90s Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla or Nissan Sentra, without any distinctive design features to attract style conscious buyers.
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The valuation of Japanese companies given their extremely high levels of efficiency mean that one should jump in and pick up stock in the world class names such as Honda and Toyota, Komatsu or Sony and Fujitsu.
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New entries or concepts are on display from Nissan, Volkswagen, Honda, Acura and Lincoln.
Early last year Honda demonstrated how their robot Asimo could lift an arm or a leg through signals sent wirelessly from a system operated by a user with an EEG cap.
And unless you're physically unable to do things like turn off lights or answer the door, would you pay a few thousand dollars (Honda's press release says nothing about what Asimo might cost) for that kind of help?
Suzuki, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, GM, Daihatsu and BMW are all either expanding operations in Indonesia or starting new ones.
What is likely to evolve over time is a U.S. industry that looks more like Europe, which is five or six big companies rather than a big three, with GM, Toyota, Ford, Chrysler, Honda Motor and Nissan each holding as much as 18% to as little as 7% of the U.S. market.
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