Honda's vehicle - recalled?

Honda Motor Company, Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. Honda is the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year.

Honda surpassed Nissan in 2001 to become the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer. As of August 2008, Honda surpassed Chrysler as the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the United States. Honda is the sixth largest automobile manufacturer in the world.



Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura in 1986. Aside from their core automobile and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft and power generators, amongst others. Since 1986, Honda has been involved with artificial intelligence/robotics research and released their ASIMO robot in 2000.



Honda have also ventured into aerospace with the establishment of GE Honda Aero Engines in 2004 and the Honda HA-420 HondaJet, scheduled to be released in 2011. Honda spends about 5% of its revenues into R&D.

A cool video clip of Honda Civic.



Lately, recall for more than 428,000 Honda's cars was made due to a defect. Models that were involved were Civic, Accord and Element of models from 2003 and 2004 in the US. The rollaway recall totals 384,220 vehicles. Japanese car maker told that there was possible for the 'ignition interlock lever' to fail, which prevent drivers from removing their key from the ignition when the vehicle has not been put in park.

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