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ArcelorMittal and partner Honda unveil first inner and outer door ring system; applied on 2019 Acura RDX

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The partners co-engineered the system for the 2019 Acura RDX. —,Joe Riggsby, Acura RDX body development leader, Honda R&D Americas. The application isn’t just limited to SUVs and minivans, we are seeing it in pick-up trucks and small cars. The outer door ring replaced conventional multi-piece, spot-weld designs.

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Honda Spills Beans on Future Product, Shows Civic Hybrid

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Elsewhere in the showroom, the Prologue is scheduled to land in the coming months, the Odyssey minivan is due for some tweaks, and a fuel cell CR-V is in the works for certain markets. Acura customers will find freshened MDX and RDX crossovers whilst shopping, along with the ZDX variant of that Prologue EV.&

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Honda begins production of new 10-speed transmission in Georgia; nearly $150M investment

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Developed by Honda R&D, the new 10AT features a low-friction design, which will deliver outstanding drivability in new Honda and Acura vehicles. It will appear first in upper grades of the all-new 2018 Honda Odyssey minivan, launching this spring, and will be applied to additional light-truck and car models in the future.

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Honda targeting introduction of Level 4 automated driving capability by 2025; Level 3 by 2020

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This new goal builds upon earlier-announced plans for Honda and Acura vehicles to have highly-automated freeway driving capability (SAE Level 3) by 2020. Honda Sensing was first introduced on the 2015 Honda CR-V and has since been applied to the Honda Civic, Pilot SUV, Ridgeline pickup and just-launched 2018 Odyssey minivan.

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2024 Chevy Camaro, 2025 Volkswagen Tiguan: Nowadays’s Automotive Information

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Honda Pilot: Examine Crossover SUVs Ferrari’s EV plant to be finished by way of mid-2024 Colorado’s made over credit score incentivizes smaller, less expensive EVs 2024 Acura ZDX to deliver built-in Google to emblem Kia Carnival vs. Honda Odyssey: Examine Minivans Gazoo Racing constructed a wild Toyota Prius to honour Le Mans Versatile Ford EV (..)

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2017 Chrysler Pacifica wins Altair Enlighten Award for weight reduction in full vehicle category; Toyota, Faurecia and AP&T module, technology winners

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In addition, the all-new Pacifica minivan also makes strategic use of aluminum. Its combined city/highway rating of 22 mpg is unsurpassed in the minivan segment, while the all-new vehicle’s unique construction also benefits the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid. All-new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica body structure 72% high-strength steel.

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Might gross sales up 13%, however stay smartly under pre-pandemic numbers

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in keeping with cent to 13,204 occasion luxurious Acura gross sales rose 30.6 in keeping with cent to 353 and Odyssey minivan, up 678.3 HOW THEY FARED Honda Canada gross sales surged a whopping 53 in keeping with cent in Might in comparison to the similar past a occasion in the past. The automaker offered 14,288 cars.

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