The 2014 Honda Odyssey Is In!

Come down to Pacific Honda and test drive the all-new 2014 Honda Odyssey! Filled with tons of updates and new features, you will have to see it for yourself!

2013 Honda Fit, Civic Named Among Coolest Cars Under $18,000

It’s hard to put a dollar amount on “cool,” because as varying degrees of human beings have shown over the course of history, cool can be a $2 pair of jeans from a thrift store or a $200,000 sports car from Italy. If we are going the car route, however, one pretty fair number to put on “cool” is $18,000, at least in the eyes of Kelley Blue Book, who recently assembled a list of the coolest new cars under that dollar amount.

4th of July Event

Celebrate your independence by being you and driving what you want to drive. Pacific Honda has a new, massive inventory and can put you in the car that suits your lifestyle! Check out the 4th of July Event going on now until July 7th, and visit us online at www.pacifichonda.com.

Honda & GM Team for Hydrogen/ Fuel Cell Projects

In January, Ford, Daimler and Nissan announced they would all work together on fuel cell technology. Toyota is getting ready for its own 2015 fuel cell car. Hyundai is delivering H2 vehicles today. The Department of Energy has a plan called H2USA. Put all this together, and the future of the hydrogen vehicle is finally getting a little clearer. Especially with today's announcement that General Motors and Honda have signed a "long-term, definitive master agreement" that will co-develop next-generation fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies. The companies hope to have these new technologies in vehicles in around 2020.

To be clear, this is not an announcement that the two OEMs will build a car together, just the hydrogen guts. The main reason for the collaboration – which follows the logic Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn laid out a few months ago – is that fuel cell starts with cost disadvantages compared to gas vehicles (e.g. the cost of the pressurized tank is higher than a plastic gas tank and there are expensive precious metals in the fuel cell stack) and it will be easier to reduce these costs in partnership. On top of this, GM and Honda want to reduce costs in whatever shared components will be in the resulting vehicles.
 

Since there was no actual car (or cars) announced, both companies declined questions on price targets for the resulting 2020 fuel cell model. Honda executive vice president Tetsuo Iwamura did say Honda hopes to make the vehicle "as affordable as possible." Currently, Honda leases the FCX Clarity (pictured) in California for $600 a month.

GM, which has its own long history with hydrogen, said it has "a lot of respect" for what Honda has done with H2 technologies and the companies' technologies "complement each other," said GM vice chairman Steven Girsky. GM has put almost three million miles onto its fuel cell test fleet over the years, including with Project Driveway.

The two companies will also be contributing to hydrogen infrastructure efforts, starting in the Golden State. There are about 10 H2 stations currently open in California, with plans to increase that to 25 or so in the next few years and then 100 stations beyond that. Both Honda and GM – and other automakers – are supporting this infrastructure growth and the beginnings of a hydrogen infrastructure are also in the works for Japan and Europe.

 

Source:  autoblog.com

By: Sebastian Blanco

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The Odyssey Upgrade

Honda has released pricing on its 2014 Odyssey. Buyers can take home the revamped minivan for $28,825 (excluding an $830 destination fee). That price marks a $150 increase over the 2013 model, but that extra Benjamin and a half buys you a whole slate of updates. Those include a new six-speed automatic transmission in all trims, revised exterior styling and a few tweaks to the instrument cluster and dash controls. Honda's familiar 3.5-liter V6 engine provides 248 horsepower and 250 pound-feet of torque, and the new gearbox helps the van return 19 miles per gallon city and 28 mpg highway.

Of course, those who opt for the top-shelf $44,450* Touring Elite trim will get to play with the new HondaVac vacuum cleaner system. The handheld vac is built into the van's rear cargo area and recharges using the onboard 12-volt electrical system. The little vacuum features a removable debris canister as well as a replaceable filter bag and can run for eight minutes between charges.

Source:autoblog.com

Looking Ahead Towards 2014 Honda Acccord Hybrid

This won’t be the first ever Honda Accord Hybrid, but the 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid is very easily going to be the best one in the model’s history, thanks to a great new design, loads of excellent features, and some staggeringly excellent fuel efficiency numbers. By the time October rolls around and this car is finally on our lot here at Pacific Honda, we’re likely to be overflowing with excitement, and we hope the same is true for our customers.