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 […]
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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 […]
The Stats for Texting While Driving Are Bad, Bad, Bad
Ah texting. Such an innocuous thing, isn’t it? Ever since Texterico Textexterson invented texting back in 1749, we’ve been waiting for the day when messaging became accessible to everyone with thumbs (sorry, dogs and cats!). Honda has a new series of safety messages, however, that show how using a mobile device can increase auto collisions. […]