The Impact of the Airbag Scandal on Honda Sales

The impact of the airbag scandal on Honda sales.

Honda has built an incredible reputation for itself over the years. They make dependable, affordable, and long-lasting vehicles that are also attractive and easy to maintain. Their vehicles are the first car for many peoples’ children, the hand-me-down car for teenagers headed off to college, and the car you’ve urged your elderly parents to downsize into. So what happens when a major and life-saving part of their cars is found to be defective? Recall notices go out to millions of vehicle owners, Honda loses money, and Honda’s safety features are doubted; that’s what happens.

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Big Ol’ Truck

Big ol' truck: GMC Sierra 1500

Rising up between California and Nevada is the Sierra mountain range. Nearly four hundred miles long and seventy miles wide, the Sierra range is famous for containing a handful of national parks, two monuments, and vacation hotspot Lake Tahoe. With a multitude of travel spots on the tourist circuit, the Sierra mountain range is certainly one of the more famous ranges in the United States. However, the mountain range isn’t the only Sierra that is making a name for itself; GMC’s full sized pick-up, the Sierra is also climbing to new heights on a regular basis.

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Which Luxury Sedan is the Right One for You: TLX or A4?

Which luxury sedan is right for you?

When you have a daily need to drive and you spend more than a few hours each week inside your vehicle you might want to move up the lineup and choose one of the luxury sedans that you can drive and enjoy. The decision to have more features than you would on a mainstream model and enjoy the higher quality of everything that’s included in a luxury ride means you want something better.  Two great luxury sedan choices you can decide between are the Acura TLX and the Audi A4 which both offer you the qualities you’re looking for.

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Volkswagen is Making Good

05.31.17 - Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller

The trust you had in the Volkswagen brand may have disappeared once you learned of the cheating scandal that was allowing VW models to emit as much as forty times the allowable limit of NOx into the air. NOx is a pollutant that has been linked as a cause of cancer and is easily something we don’t want in the atmosphere. Although the numbers have varied since Volkswagen agreed to buy back or fix the offending models, they are said to be spending as much as $25 billion between current vehicle owners, regulators, states and dealers to try and make good on this problem.

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Affordable Driving Excitement

05.19.17 - Honda S2000

A car that can drive fast or has an active suspension to keep you planted in the corners is an absolute joy to drive. Not everyone can afford the latest tech on the market or the supercar that’s being built by the top names in the business, but everyone can enjoy some speed and the fun of driving an exciting car. For those of us that need to spend $10,000 or less to have the car with the power we want it’s not that hard to find a great car to drive for this price if you spend a little time searching for the right car. Here are some great examples of cars that provide you the speed you want:

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The Toyota Investment in the Hoosier State

05.08.17 - Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana

For many of the decades before the turn of the century, it felt like the automotive industry was at odds with itself. The foreign vehicles that were being shipped in were thought to be ways for outside companies to swoop in and take over the sales and profits from the US without any actual investment into the country they were being sold in. As the industry has progressed, we’ve seen the proof that what was once a divide is now becoming a cohesive existence with Toyota leading the way toward building jobs and offering community involvement in the US.

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Ups and Downs for the Alfa Romeo Giulia

04.25.17 - Alfa Romeo Giulia

There is a car that has absolutely taken our breath away and brought us the look and feel we want in a vehicle that’s right for the drive. It showed up on our television sets during the Super Bowl to the delight of crowds that looked in awe and asked “what is that” wondering if they could even dream to drive this car. That car is the Alfa Romeo Giulia and it started out with more accolades than any other car has had on the market in many years to be the most exciting new car on the US market.

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A New McLaren Brings New Racing Style Technology

04.20.17 - McLaren 720S

As McLaren brings us their next amazing supercar that we’ll love to drive we’re going to enjoy some of the impressive ways that McLaren engages in racing technology and give a driver the information they need. The new car that will become the successor to the 650S will be the 720S and its built to be impressive and offer us more of what we want to see. When you have a company that’s born from racing and enters the production, street legal arena, you can’t help but be amazed by nearly everything they build.

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Is Tesla Heading for More of the Same Trouble?

04.14.17 - Tesla Model 3

Tesla is one of the most Jekyll and Hyde companies in the automotive world. This company has boldly entered the world of production automotives with cars that don’t need a gasoline engine at all. This makes a Tesla vehicle one that helps to save the environment and is good for the planet. The Tesla Model S has been touted as one of the fastest cars on the market and with the new P100D with Ludicrous + mode this is a car that continues to improve and become a model that we admire.

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2017 BMW 5 Series: More Perfection on the Road

04.10.17 - BMW 5 Series

For the past forty years, the BMW 5 Series has been an admired luxury sedan on the road to give us something with a sporty edge in the midsized market. This sedan comes into the seventh generation this year to give you a larger size but lower weight with more power. The 5 Series also adds some of the impressive technology that’s been found in the 7 Series to give it more of a direct connection for you to enjoy the ride. The 5 Series is an impressive car to drive that can be enjoyed on the road as an active midsized luxury sedan.

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