RX300, which is really a basic passenger car fitted out to look like a sport-utility vehicle.

ECONOMIST: Luxury cars

At the same time it is weak in hot segments, like crossovers--vehicles that combine the softer ride and better mileage of a passenger car with the four-wheel drive of a sport utility vehicle.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

Honda announced in June that, by 2009, it will market an all-new hybrid vehicle, the company's fourth, and offer a clean diesel passenger car that will likely get 45 miles to the gallon.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The timing of Spring Festival must always be taken into account when analyzing vehicle sales in the first two months of the year in China, but by any measure, passenger car sales were very strong in January.

FORBES: China Passenger Car Sales Surge In January