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Honda driver walks away unharmed after massive rollover. Jason Fichtner took a wild ride in a massive crash that sent his Shea Racing Honda Accord V6 rolling and tumbling some 10 feet in the air during the first Pirelli World Challenge race at VIRginia International Raceway last weekend. The crash looks extreme and completely annihilated […] More »

New Type R stands as quickest front-drive production car at the ‘Ring. The 2017 Honda Civic Type R has recaptured the Nurburgring lap record for a front-wheel-drive production car on April 3. With a lap time of 7:43.8, the newest Civic eclipses the prior record of 7:47.19, set by the “hometeam” Volkswagen Golf GTI Clubsport […] More »

The Angry Hamsters Honda Z600 race car was properly crazy. Motorcycle-powered race cars have been around for a long time. However, if you hear about one (actually a few now) racing in the budget-endurance series 24 Hours of LeMons, you should know you’re about to see something weird. The Angry Hamsters Racing Honda Z600 was one […] More »

Clean first-generation CRX in California will make Rust Belters jealous. Clean cars from the 1980s are getting hard to find at all and that seems doubly true for Hondas of the New Wave decade. Depending on where you live, you might only find rust-bucket Civics and CRXs or you might find only half-hewn projects. However, […] More »

BYP Racing’s supercharged time-attack Integra has V8 Supercars pace. Ten-second Integras don’t just fall out of the sky, so it’s completely nuts to see this 10-second Integra ripping around an Australian road course almost as quickly as the country’s famed V8 Supercars can go. Then again, this is a car built to the wide-open regulations […] More »

TLX wears handsome new clothes with sport-tuned A-Spec on offer Acura unveiled its redesigned TLX, including a new A-Spec trim, at the New York International Auto Show on April 11. Acura’s mid-size offering now carries a sportier look to its nose that includes a larger grille that carries a hyperspace-travel look to it. Add in some nice changes […] More »

What’s a fair premium on price for low-mile, unmolested Type S? What is the real premium on an unmodified, top-trim Honda? Few exist—particularly with something like a 1990s CRX—but this super-clean 2003 Acura RSX Type-S for sale in Atlanta with just 44,000 miles represents a real-world test of that question. Is it’s asking price of […] More »