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Honda recalls Fit model over fire danger

30.01.10

Honda Motor Co. is recalling 140,000 Fit hatchbacks in the Pooled States and another 506,000 worldwide over a unrealized fire hazard relating to the power window units, according to media reports.

The Associated Mob reported that one person was killed in South Africa last year in a fire believed to be interrelated to the glitch. No injuries have been reported in the U.S., and Honda is advising owners of the Fit in America to keep windows rolled up during shower or snow for the time being, according to reports.

Honda (NYSE: HMC) is one of the largest employers in the Dayton department, with 2,750 people working at an mechanism plant in Anna. The company also operates a 600,000-equitable-foot distribution hub in Troy.

Honda’s two Ohio council plants – in Marysville and East Impertinent – turned out 463,596 vehicles last year, down 33.5 percent from 2008. The assembly makes Honda Accord coupes and sedans, Crosstour crossovers, Constituent light trucks and CR-V sport utility vehicles, and Acura TL sedans and RDX exhibit-utes in Ohio.

Source: Bizjournals.com

Carmakers Pounce on Toyota Owners

28.01.10

“We’re responding to the concerns of many Toyota owners who have asked our dealers for remedy,” said a G.M. spokesman, Tom Henderson. “We’re reacting by oblation a solution.”

Toyota was racing to find its own working on Wednesday, as it tried to resolve its accelerator pedal conundrum and minimize the damage to its reputation for riskless vehicles. The pedal flaw has created an toe-hold for competing car companies like G.M.

Analysts expected Honda , Hyundai and Ford to extras most. Edmunds.com posted a photo of a Honda dealership at hand Dallas that programmed its digital mark by the street to read, “Our gas pedals don’t insert!”

“I think there’s got to be instant agonize for all Toyota owners,” David Thomas, superior editor of Cars.com , said. “It’s that off one's rocker image of a runaway car. There can’t be a worse affiliation for any automaker to have.”

The car-rental company Avis, which also operates Budget, said it was removing 20,000 Toyotas from its convoy. Hertz, Enterprise, National and Alamo also said they would briefly stop renting Toyotas.

Source: New York Times

California new-car sales fell 28% in 2009

28.01.10

New-car registrations declined 28 percent last year to the lowest up on in almost 35 years in California, as notes-strapped consumers hold off on goodly purchases during the recession.

Dealers sold 1.04 million new vehicles in 2009, a theatrical drop from the 1.45 million in 2008, then the lowest straight with in 15 years, according to the California New Car Dealers Bonding in Sacramento.

Last year’s gloomy sales are less than half the 2.16 million vehicles sold in 2005, when the restraint was hitting on all cylinders, and the lowest straightforward with since 1975.

New-car dealers “experienced oversized decreases in sales last year,” said Tom Hoffman, chairman of the solemn association and operator of Puente Hills Chevrolet.

Car-nutty California’s 28 percent run out of gas was much greater than the 21 percent eliminate nationwide.

And the four-county Sacramento district’s auto dealers have been some of the hardest hit in the state. The community has lost about two-dozen new-car dealers since 2007, the subordinate-highest percentage in the nation, behind Anticipation, R.I.

Source: Sacramento Business Journal