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Acura and Porsche take inaugural ALMS Green Challenge championship

Season 1 of the American Le Mans Series' Michelin GreenX Challenge is now in the books with Acura and Porsche taking the inaugural season championship. The 2009 season wrapped up at Laguna Seca this weekend with Gil de Ferran taking overall victory in the Acura ARX-02a and the No. 45 Flying Lizard Porsche 911. However, it was the LMP2 class Acura ARX-01b of Fernandez racing that took Green honors among the prototypes after finishing second overall to de Ferran. The Fernandez car has been running strong all season The second of the two ... Read more →

With V8s and V10s dead, Acura may instead revive the RSX Sam Abuelsamid

In recent months, Honda and its Acura division have been struggling with future product plans and how to deal with falling sales and rising fuel economy demands. Acura, in particular, has ...

Acura won't get into horsepower war, will focus on efficiency Sam Abuelsamid

In typical Honda fashion, its premium Acura division will take a different path and has decided not to get sucked into a power race with its rivals. We already knew Acura had shelved plans for a ...

Honda to focus on hybrid, halts development on V8 engine, rear-drive Jeremy Korzeniewski

Not long ago, Honda announced its intentions to build a V8 engine for its next-gen Acura flagship sedan, which was also likely to be migrated to a rear-wheel-drive platform. Unsurprisingly in ...

Driven: Ronn Motor Company Scorpion, the world's first 'green' supercar Damon Lavrinc

Driving prototypes is practically useless. It's next to impossible to get a feel for what the production version is capable of and you rarely get a chance to explore the limits. Our time with the ...

Acura diesel on hold because of business conditions, not tech issues 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

AutoblogGreen spoke with Honda of America spokesman Sage Marie at a media event yesterday about the company's plans to introduce a clean diesel to the US market in 2009. The new 2.2L diesel engine is already available in the European Honda Accord which is sold in North America as the Acura TSX. ...

Will Acura's new diesel jump on the DOA train? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In recent weeks, we've heard about two light duty diesel programs being shelved at Toyota and Ford. Now, an anonymous poster on the Motor Trend forum is indicating the same fate may await the new Acura 2.2L i-DTEC diesel. Honda engineers have been talking about this engine and its innovate new ...

Toyota announces three diesel variants for the Avensis 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Toyota has decided to stir the European diesel market a little bit more and will now offering three diesel Avensis models, the marque's flagship sedan. This is the model that is sold elsewhere as the Acura TSX, albeit with more luxury equipment. All three powertrains are Euro-V compliant and they ...

New York '08: 2009 Acura TSX, soon with a diesel, but not quite yet! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the TSX for a high-res gallery Acura took the wraps of the all-new TSX today at the New York Auto Show, although we already saw it with Honda badges at the Geneva Auto Show a couple of weeks ago. The TSX will almost certainly be the first Acura model to get Honda's new 2.2L diesel four ...

ALMS Speculation: Acura preparing to move up to LMP1 with a diesel? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Several bits of information have come out about Acura and their participation in the American Le Mans Series over the past two months so it's time to put two and two together and see if we can get to add up to seven. Acura jumped into the fray in the LMP2 class in 2007 and had a reasonably ...

Detroit 2008: ALMS announces Green Challenge, Corvette goes cellulosic E85 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

American Le Mans Series CEO Scott Atherton announced a partnership this morning with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Transportation and the Society of Automotive Engineers to make ALMS the global leader in green racing. Working with those groups, the series is defining a new ...

John Watts on Acura's green powertrain plans 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

During Acura's recent 2008 vehicle preview I had a chance to chance with Product Planning Manager John Watts about alternative powertrain plans. While Lexus has produced hybrid versions of several of their models, Acura hasn't incorporated Honda's IMA system on any vehicles. In fact Watts feels the ...

Honda Diesels for Odyssey and Acura MDX 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

This is a follow-up to the earlier announcement from Honda about the diesel engines for the U.S. market. The Financial Express reports the vehicles that will be offered in the U.S. with the proposed diesel engine are the Honda Odyssey minivan and Acura MDX SUV. The vehicles will also be offered in ...


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