Honda

The collectible motorcycle marketplace has snapped back into action with Mecum belatedly wrapping up its annual January Las Vegas auctions on May 1, following a four-day-sale. The results are intriguing, particularly if you're a Harley Knucklehead fan.

Like Volkswagen, Toyota and other big names in auto-manufacturing, Honda is making moves away from fossil fuels, declaring a new plan to only sell electric vehicles in major markets by 2040, along with some lofty ambitions around road safety.

The Honda Ridgeline is often overlooked as an option in America’s vast field of pickup truck offerings. Yet it’s one of the better ones in the midsized category for a lot of reasons. For 2020, Honda added a better transmission and more tech as standard.

Honda has redesigned the Ridgeline utility truck for the 2021 model year. Changes include an improved all-wheel drive system, a new front-end design, and interior improvements. Overall, Honda is pushing the off-pavement capabilities of the vehicle.

The CR-V was introduced in its fifth-generation in 2017 without a hybrid model on offer. That's now changed with the release of the 2020 CR-V Hybrid, and after spending a week with it can tell you whether it was worth the wait.

When disaster strikes, the power often goes out, and it may be a good while before it's restored. Toyota and Honda start testing the Moving e system this month, a fuel cell bus designed to serve as a mobile power source for disaster relief.

To American riders, the Trail 125 will look like a slightly wacky, semi-scramblerized version of the venerable Cub, something like a light off-road scooter. But any Australian biker that sees one will be swept away in a flood of memories.

General Motors and Honda have announced a new collaboration, building on previous joint efforts, in which they will develop two new Honda electric vehicles. The EVs will use GM's Ultium batteries, and will be built by GM for Honda sales.

Thought lost for many years, the engine of this Taglioni masterpiece was rediscovered in Latvia and the frame in Croatia. Now, as the only Ducati 125/4 ever to exist, it's set to become one of the most valuable motorcycles ever sold at auction.

Autonomous vehicles are coming. And it won't be too long before hailing a self-driving ride-share pod for the trip to work will be the done thing. Startup Cruise has revealed its vision for just such an autonomous shuttle – the Origin.

Honda believes that the "cultural transition" to autonomous vehicles will be a tough shift, and that people of a certain generation won't want to let go of the wheel. So it's proposing a walled-garden model that gives you a (supervised) choice.

Honda has teamed up with British bike builder Guy Willison to tart the CB1100RS up into a subtle replica of an 80s-era endurance racer.