Drivers Keeping Honda Models for 10+ Years

One of the things that really sets apart Honda from the rest of the automotive competition is that they produce vehicles that consumers tend to keep for a very, very long time. A lot of that is tied to the reliability of Honda cars and SUVs, but whatever the reason, Honda is one of only two makes of vehicles that customers keep for a decade or more, according to a recent survey of 400,000 vehicles organized by iSeeCars.com. That is truly elite status for our beloved machines, and a list of the “Top New Cars Owners Keep for 10 Years” showed just how many Honda models stick around longer than a two-term president.

Honda College Graduate Program Offers $500 Credit to Grads

Families with seniors in college either attended their graduation ceremonies recently or will do so over the course of the next week or two, and while there are few things more thrilling than seeing a child achieve something so momentous, the reality for the former students is that with college done, real adult life has no choice but to begin.

Honda Given Top Award in KBB.com Brand Watch Study

It isn’t always easy for consumers to get the most bang out of their buck when purchasing a new vehicle, due largely to the fact that they have no clue whether the vehicles they’re buying will actually stay as delightful and gorgeous and fun as they were the day they first test-drove them.

Honda Proves Among Most Dependable Brands in Study

In the most recent J.D. Power & Associates Vehicle Dependability Study, it was discovered that while today’s owners of automobiles generally love the cars that they buy, they do have a couple of qualms about things like infotainment systems and voice commands.

Honda Models Still Among Industry's Most Popular

Every automaker wants their vehicles to be the metaphorical prettiest girl at the dance, but filling up the ol’ dance card can prove to be a quite a challenge sometimes for some vehicles. Honda, however, doesn’t seem to be having that problem, as it just wrapped up yet another year in which many of its top models bested their segments in retail registrations. What that means in terms of popularity is that Honda is appealing to more customers than any other brand these days. The retail sales statistics show that pretty clearly.

Honda Sees Record-Setting Year in Sales

Generally speaking, 2014 was a ridiculously good year to be in the business of selling cars. Never in the recorded history of man have human beings purchased more automobiles, which speaks both to a growing population of people who need/can afford cars and the quality of the cars themselves.

2015 Honda Odyssey Tops All Minivans in Crash Test

We here at Pacific Honda are always trying to tell people that the 2015 Honda Odyssey is a true standout in the world of modern minivans, and it’s always nice when something is published that proves we’re not just talking a big talk.

Vote For Your Favorite Honda Toy Tunes While You Still Can!

We’re less than a week away from Christmas, which means we here at Pacific Honda are already looking toward the end of what has been an extremely fun Happy Honda Days sales event this year. Plenty of sales are still going on, so let’s not mourn the end of the holiday season just yet, but there’s no question that December has gone by very quickly and we’re not at all anxious to see it end.

Honda Boasts Strongest November Ever

To be perfectly frank, 2014 has been an amazing year to work for a Honda dealership, as sales across the board continue to be some of the best that the country has ever seen, and November has been a perfect example of how well things have been going.

Specifically, Honda brand set a sales record for the month of November, selling 106,957 vehicles to consumers nationwide. That’s a 4.9% increase over November of 2013 and certainly more than enough of a boost to make it the best November ever for Honda sales.

Affordable Honda Civic Earns High Marks

As adults, we tend to think that our relationship with grades ends the minute we finish our final day in the classroom. No more worrying about getting a C on that paper, or a D on that test. We’re grown-ups now, which should mean that grades don’t matter anymore--except they do, especially when we’re looking at buying a new car.

2014 Honda Civic Coupe Named Among Most Affordable "Cool" Cars

Honda vehicles have a reputation as being sturdy, reliable, long-lasting cars, which has helped them to become one of the most successful auto brands in the history of the industry. However, “sturdy, reliable and long-lasting” aren’t often synonymous with “cool,” so some people get the mistaken idea Honda vehicles aren’t trendy enough to compete with other brands whose modus operandi centers solely around the cool factor of their automobiles.

The inclusion of the 2014 Honda Civic Coupe on Kelley Blue Book’s list of “10 Coolest Cars Under $18,000” proves that these aren’t just beige boredom-mobiles intended only for people over the age of sixty. Quite the contrary; with recent redesigns in a lot of Honda models and a tremendous influx of cutting-edge technologies, these automobiles are cooler than they’ve ever been, and the new Civic Coupe really helps to bang that point home.

Honda Vehicles To Feature Android Auto OS

 These days, nearly everybody has access to a smart device, whether it be an Apple iPhone or one of several different Android devices, which run an operating system developed by Google. Debating which of the two is better is a long-standing debate that has no easy answer, and now it appears as though the conversation will spill into the auto world, as both Apple and Google are developing versions of their mobile operating systems for cars’ infotainment systems.

Pacific Honda Offers Great Financing Options for All Credit

There are a lot of people in the world who believe that since they have bad credit (or no credit at all), they will never be approved for an auto loan sizeable enough to get them the vehicle they really want. The truth is that here at Pacific Honda, we’ve seen all kinds of credit scores, some of which have been pretty low, but an overwhelming majority of the time we’re able to get these customers financing anyway.

Win A 2015 Honda Fit With Honda Fit Challenge

There are a lot of exciting things going on at Honda right now, with several models rated at or toward the tops of their segments and many new or redesigned models coming out over the course of the next few years. The 2015 Honda Fit, however, is one of the vehicles that we here at Pacific Honda are having the most fun with at the moment, and based on the Honda Fit Challenge, it sure likes Honda is having a lot of fun with it, too.

Honda Tops KBB 2014 Brand Image Awards

Once a year, Kelley Blue Book puts out their Brand Image Awards, which recognize auto brands that American consumers consider to be both reliable and enjoyable to own. In other words, if all automakers got together and gave out superlatives in some sort of car yearbook, the 2014 award for “Most Popular” would go to Honda, as it was given the best scores from the 12,000 people that were polled in order to gather information for this year’s awards.

Honda First Recognized by NHTSA for Rearview Cameras

Backing out of a parking spot isn’t exactly the most challenging part of anybody’s day, but it certainly is a heck of a lot easier now than it was ten years ago thanks to the invention of the rearview camera, now standard on many 2014 model year Honda vehicles.

Android OS Coming to Honda Infotainment

In the first week of 2014, Honda and Google announced a partnership that could not only change the face of infotainment systems moving forward, but could ultimately culminate in the mainstreaming of self-driving cars.

We’re getting ahead of ourselves, though. We’ll start with the lead, before it’s too late and we bury it: Google and Honda have agreed to use the Android operating system for its vehicles’ infotainment, which is awesome for so many reasons.

2014 Honda Civic Adds More iPhone Connectivity

Over half of Americans with cell phones have made the leap to smartphones, which, when combined with a brand new Honda vehicle like the recently-released 2014 Honda Civic, has made life a heck of a lot easier (and safer) than it was just a few years ago.

Bad Credit? No Credit? Finance Thorugh Pacific Honda Anyway!

If you were to visit our dealership website right now and read about our excellent financing department, you’d catch a little nugget in the text making the claim that even potential buyers with poor credit or no credit at all (that means you, first time car-buyers!) can get approved for loans that help them drive away in the vehicles of their dreams.

2014 Honda Odyssey Named Among Best Tailgating Vehicles

The new NFL football season got underway a few weeks ago, and since many of our customers are San Diego Chargers fans, we figured that we were all in for another long and rocky season of the Phillip Rivers show. But things haven’t been as dire this season as they could have been, which means people around here are legitimately getting excited about football again. We here at Pacific Honda are very happy to see that, especially because Bold Ride recently named the 2014 Honda Odyssey among its “8 Perfect Rides for Football Tailgating.”