The people who serve in our military sacrifice much for our country, our well-being and our safety. The Drive for Troops campaign was created to raise funds for service members and their families. Donated funds are given to a number of charities that have a range of focuses. Leith’s way of contributing to this campaign is to […]
Archive | May, 2014
What Does the Car of the Future Look Like? Google Googles It
Google released some footage this week of people in the company’s self-driving car in a cutesy video reminiscent of how a toy company would show newborns engaging with mobiles, colorful blocks and stuffed animals. The reason this video merits our attention is that Google is not an automotive company. Many companies that make cars are […]
That Time Honda Imported a Chevy Impala Just to Show GM What’s What
All companies have origin stories, although most times they’re nowhere near as cool as the kind you see in movies. When it comes to Honda, however, it’s about as real as it gets. This story starts, however, not at the beginning of Soichiro Honda’s life, but in the middle. The year is 1973, and Honda […]
How We Would Build Our 2014 Honda Accord
Because we live fast-paced and vicarious lives, we found ourselves enjoying the 30% humidity and low 70s temperature of this beautiful May morning by going over the year-to-date financial accounting of Honda’s U.S. sales in our air-conditioned office. This reverie, however, inspired a thought: seeing that the Accord is Honda’s best-selling model, we wondered: What […]
5 Bad Driving Habits Putting Yourself and Everyone Else at Risk
Good driving is more than not having been in a collision recently. Many of us think that we’re basically good drivers, which entitles us to bend the rules here and there. A no-look lane change. A little driving while sleepy. A bottled water while we drive (water’s good for us, right?). A closed-eye sneeze (just […]