Filed under: Minivan/Van, Sedan, Recalls, Safety, Acura, Honda
Honda has announced that it's recalling a total of 470,000 vehicles in the U.S. due to the same failing master cylinder problem that caused
Toyota to
recall 1.66 million vehicles worldwide this week.
According to The Detroit News, the two automakers used the same supplier for the part, and when owners use a type of brake fluid other than what's used at the factory, a seal within the master cylinder may fail, causing a leak that could eventually lead to loss of braking power altogether. Honda says that a warning light would illuminate before this happened, however.
The Honda recall covers 2005-2007
Acura RL models and 2005-2007
Honda Odyssey minivans, while the Toyota recall includes the 2005-2006
Avalon and 2004-2006
Highlander (non-hybrid only), and 2006 Lexus
GS,
IS and
RX cars and crossovers.
Honda says that at this point, it doesn't know how many of its vehicles have suffered a master cylinder failure nor how many have leaked. The company says it will replace the faulty seal and, if leaking has occurred, the brake booster will be replaced as well.
There's no set schedule for fixing those vehicles that are impacted by the recall, but owners should expect to hear something soon.
[Source:
The Detroit News | Image: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty]
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Filed under: Safety, Acura, Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Hyundai, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has put a new crop of large luxury vehicles through its crash test gauntlet, and the
Cadillac CTS and
Infiniti M joined some impressive company in scoring a Top Safety Pick designation. The CTS and M clinched the highly regarded award by receiving the top score of "Good" in roof strength testing. To achieve the top score in rollover safety, a vehicle's roof has to be able to support four times the weight of the entire vehicle.
The Top Safety Pick designation is handed out only to vehicles that received a "Good" score for all four IIHS crash tests while also featuring standard stability control to help avoid accidents altogether. The
Cadillac and
Infiniti join the
BMW 5 Series,
Lincoln MKS,
Volvo S80,
Hyundai Genesis and the
Mercedes-Benz E-Class as Top Safety Pick winners.
Since large luxury vehicles cost so much and contain so many safety features, it's not all that surprising that so many models aced IIHS testing. But not all vehicles passed the test with flying colors. The
Lexus GS and
Audi A6 managed only an "Acceptable" score in roof testing, while the aging Acura RL lagged behind the competition with a "Marginal" rating. Hit the jump to read over the IIHS presser.
[Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety]
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Cadillac CTS, Infiniti M models earn Top Safety Pick status from IIHS originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Great news! According to a dealer missive from Honda, the
Acura RL is now
not dead. Moving on...
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Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Japan, Acura, Honda, Luxury
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Word coming from Japan's
Nikkei business daily (as reported by
Reuters) indicates that
Honda has finally decided to discontinue the slow selling
Acura RL and its Japanese market counterpart, the Honda Legend.
Ostensibly the flagship of Acura's brand here in North America, the RL has been a slow-seller for quite some time, upstaged in part by the company's less-expensive, higher-volume
TL sedan. For some years now, the TL has offered more space, similar tech and even more power (in the Type S model), making the RL a particularly tough sell for dealers. Through the first half of this year, only 872 RLs have been sold in the United States.
Another production change reported by the
Nikke that would only affect the Japanese market is the discontinuation of conventional gasoline versions of the
Civic. If accurate, that would mean that from now until at least until the next-generation Civic arrives in the Fall of 2011, Honda will only sell the Civic hybrid in its home market.
In addition, the JDM Elysion minivan is also apparently set to get the axe.
Autoblog reached out to Honda for comment on the
Nikkei story, and spokesman Chuck Schifsky would only say that the automaker does not comment on future product plans, noting that no official announcement has been made about the fate of the RL/Legend, the JDM Civic or the Elysion.
Top tip, Joaquin!
[Source:
Reuters]
Report: Honda to kill off Acura RL/Legend globally, discontinue gas Civic models in Japan originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The
Nikkei business daily's reporting Honda plans to scrap the
Acura RL and more. Good.
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