Honda’s FCX Clarity has earned numerous accolades from the world’s motoring press, but now it’s got a new feather to add to its cap.

Fifty-nine jurors from the 2009 World Car of The Year judging panel have voted the fuel cell-powered Honda the 2009 World Green car, an award that lends the Japanese automaker some significant [...]

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Honda has already taken a tight grip of its purse strings in recent months, in the process killing off the keenly-awaited NSX successor as well as its Formula 1 program.

With the big budget items gone, Honda has now turned its cost-cutting attention to the places it will hurt most.

In North America Honda will reduce annual [...]

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Honda has announced that its hydrogen-fuelled FCX Clarity is now available for lease in Japan, making that nation the second country to be gifted with the zero-emissions wondercar that many say foretells the future of motoring.

Currently only available to corporations and government entities, the FCX’s Japanese expansion is part of Honda’s plan to release 200 [...]

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Working in collaboration with Germany’s Fachhochschule Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences, RMIT University researchers have unveiled Australia’s first hydrogen-powered race car.

The car will be bidding for the title of world’s fastest hydrogen-powered racer when it attempts to break the Guinness World Records mark for speed by a vehicle of its class in early 2009.

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Honda has revealed its Insight Concept Hybrid, which will preview the company’s upcoming five-seater petrol-electric hybrid car and is set to make its global debut at the Paris Motor Show on October 2.

Okay, first things first: yes, it looks remarkably similar to Toyota’s Prius, the current dominant force in the hybrid market. Yet, while the silhouette [...]

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With a look believed to be similar to the FCX Clarity, the prototype of Honda’s new Prius-Fighter was not expected to be revealed until the Paris Motor Show next month - but that appears to have changed. It now appears that we could get our first look as early as Thursday this week. The folks over at Carscoop know people who know [...]

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Toyota Prius, Honda FCX Clarity, BMW Hydrogen 7. If there’s something wrong with today’s alternative fuel vehicles, it’s that they are all missing a crucial amount of glamour. You won’t find any teenage boys rushing to put posters of the Prius or the FCX up on their bedroom walls and even if you did, [...]

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The world’s first production fuel cell car rolled off the assembly line yesterday and quite rightfully its creators at Honda are more than a little chuffed.

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Earlier this week we reported on Honda’s intention to produce a production version of their hybrid powered CR-Z Concept. In arguably even more interesting news Honda have also announced their intention to begin production of their hydrogen powered FCX Concept car.

We can expect a production version of the FCX concept car to be unveiled at [...]

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Porsche Panamera, Volkswagen Passat coupe, Honda FCX, BMW CS…. With low slung sporty four-door coupes seemingly being the next big thing in prestige auto manufacture, German aftermarket tuning shop A.R.T has taken the wraps off their new tuned Mercedes CLS, the GTR 374.

Inspired by the DTM European touring car series, the already dead sexy CLS [...]

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It’s been a week full of alternative fuel news. Porsche have announced that they will be making a petrol-electric hybrid option available with their Cayenne and Panamera models in 2009. BMW have their Hydrogen 7 cars on loan in Europe and the US and Saab, Volvo and Lotus are giving Bioethanol a try.

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