A Look Back at Some of the Year’s Top Honda and Acura Articles on Honda-Tech.com
For some of you, 2016 may have been a great year. We hope it was. For some of you, 2016 was…less than perfect. The good news is that Honda and Acura cars were still on the road and at auto shows. We made sure to share pictures and video of them here on Honda-Tech.com whenever we got the chance. We’ve taken five of the top Honda and Acura posts from the past year and put them below – just in case you need a reminder of the positive things that came out of 2016.
The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas is a huge showcase of wildly modified cars, and aftermarket parts and accessories. It’s also the first place in North America where Honda showed off its new Civic Type R Prototype, which gives us a preview of the hot Honda that will be coming to the states next year. Viva la VTEC!
Everyone dreams of taking a high-performance car as fast as they can on the Autobahn. Not everyone gets to do that, though. Fortunately, CarThrottle was able to do that with a 2016 Civic Type R – and decided to film it.
Honda’s are so much fun to rev up and rip up the road with. That’s part of the reason why we weren’t blown away by the new Civic Si at the LA Auto Show. The 7,000-rpm redline strikes us as a place that will be rarely visited by drivers of the super Civic.
When you think of an Acura that can do 190 mph, which one do you picture? The new NSX, right? That makes sense. You should also envision this H-T member’s insane Integra, which is on its way to hitting that speed.
Four cylinders, rear-wheel drive, natural aspiration, manual gearboxes – the Honda S2000 and Subaru BRZ have a lot in common. However, there are several years of development, hundreds of pounds, and different company philosophies that separate them. What separates the better of the two from its competitor, though? There’s only one way to find out…
Derek Shiekhi's father raised him on cars. As a boy, Derek accompanied his dad as he bought classics such as post-WWII GM trucks and early Ford Mustang convertibles.
After loving cars for years and getting a bachelor's degree in Business Management, Derek decided to get an associate degree in journalism. His networking put him in contact with the editor of the Austin-American Statesman newspaper, who hired him to write freelance about automotive culture and events in Austin, Texas in 2013. One particular story led to him getting a certificate for learning the foundations of road racing.
While watching TV with his parents one fateful evening, he saw a commercial that changed his life. In it, Jeep touted the Wrangler as the Texas Auto Writers Association's "SUV of Texas." Derek knew he had to join the organization if he was going to advance as an automotive writer. He joined the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) in 2014 and was fortunate to meet several nice people who connected him to the representatives of several automakers and the people who could give him access to press vehicles (the first one he ever got the keys to was a Lexus LX 570). He's now a regular at TAWA's two main events: the Texas Auto Roundup in the spring and the Texas Truck Rodeo in the fall.
Over the past several years, Derek has learned how to drive off-road in various four-wheel-drive SUVs (he even camped out for two nights in a Land Rover), and driven around various tracks in hot hatches, muscle cars, and exotics. Several of his pieces, including his article about the 2015 Ford F-150 being crowned TAWA's 2014 "Truck of Texas" and his review of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider, have won awards in TAWA's annual Excellence in Craft Competition. Last year, his JK Forum profile of Wagonmaster, a business that restores Jeep Wagoneers, won prizes in TAWA’s signature writing contest and its pickup- and SUV-focused Texas Truck Invitational.
