Honda to Build Smart Home for its Green Technologies


These days, it seems that everyone is doing what they can to 'go green.' And, whether this is using aluminum water bottles, reusable grocery bags or perhaps driving a highly-efficient, eco-friendly new Honda model like the Insight Hybrid or even gas-powered 2013 Honda Accord with new Earth Dreams Technology, every little bit truly does help.

But, what if our green efforts could extend past just the bottles from which we drink, bags we carry to…

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Honda is Going Big at Pikes Peak


It's almost time for the world famous Pike's Peak racing event held each year out in Colorado. The race brings out the best of the best as they race to the top and Honda has made it clear that they are going big.

This year Honda is bringing ten vehicles ranging from ATV's, dirt bikes and cars all to compete in the event. This is a record number of vehicles not only…

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Honda Announces Lineup for 2013 Civic Tour


Here at South Tacoma Honda, we know more than few drivers from the greater Seattle area and beyond love to turn up the volume and rock out behind the wheel. Honda knows this as well, which is why the automaker hosts the Civic Tour each year. Headlined by some of today's top artists, the tour has become rather famous within the music industry.

That being said, one of the biggest questions leading up to?

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2014 Odyssey - Vauum Cleaner Standard!

If we said the new 2014 Odyssey minivan sucked, Honda might just take that as a compliment. The updated Odyssey Touring Elite model debuting at the New York Auto Show will introduce a new feature likely to have significant appeal to family buyers ? the first in-car vacuum.

The HondaVAC is one of several new features being introduced on the 2014 Honda Odyssey which has gained steady momentum in an otherwise shrinking market segment.

Minivan sales are currently less than half of what they peaked at a decade ago, but there is still a sizable demand among family buyers who see…

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Honda Advertising Now Split Three Ways


For more than 25 years, advertising firm RPA solely handled all advertising operations for the American branch of auto brand Honda. Recently, however, that changed. Honda decided to re-think its strategy, and it invited several companies to share their ideas.

Of course, the world of advertising is often not a forgiving one. Either you win or you lose accounts; there's really no in-between. As Kevin B. O'Neill, a veteran ad executive who now?

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Honda Hybrid Batteries Get 'Greener' with New Process


Are you a "green-thinking" individual who has been wondering how hybrid and electric vehicles can be considered environmentally-friendly when the process to dispose of their used batteries is rather unfriendly to the environment? South Tacoma Honda, serving the Seattle area, has been curious as well, and we were rather ecstatic to hear that our favorite auto brand, Honda, is taking steps to make its entire hybrid life-cycle earth-friendly.

So, how exactly does the process work…

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Behind the Wheel | 2013 Honda Civic A Well-Done Do-Over Raises the Final Grade!



The 2012 Honda Civic was a goof: a dull all-new car that wasn?t better, in any significant way, than the one it replaced. Goofs are fixable, however ? just ask NASA.

In 1990, when it turned out that the mirror in the shiny, new, freshly in orbit Hubble Space Telescope wasn?t shiny in precisely the right way, the space agency began working on a solution. In December 1993 that fix, the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, known as Costar, was launched aboard the Endeavour space shuttle and, in one of the great service calls of all time, was…

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