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NDTV
an hour ago
- Automotive
- NDTV
Honda City Sport Edition Launched In India: Limited Units, Sportier Appeal
Honda Cars India Ltd. (HCIL) has launched the New City Sport, adding a sportier edge to its popular mid-size sedan - Honda City. The City Sport offers sporty exterior styling with black accents, all-black interiors with contrasting red highlights, and ambient lighting. Echoing its tagline 'Life is a Sport', the new City Sport celebrates those who live with energy, confidence and a passion for standing out - both on the road and in life. Honda City Sport - New Limited-Unit Variant The City Sport will be available as a new grade in City line-up in limited units. It will be offered in CVT (automatic transmission) in 3 colour options: Radiant Red Metallic, Platinum White Pearl and Meteoroid Gray Metallic. Honda City Sport - Dynamic Exterior The City Sport commands attention with its striking exterior. A sporty black grille is complemented by a sporty black trunk lip spoiler, glossy black shark fin antenna and an exclusive sport emblem. The silhouette is further enhanced by multi-spoke sporty grey alloy wheels and black ORVMs. Honda City Sport - Sporty Interior The interior features a sporty black cabin featuring premium leather black seats and plush soft door inserts with a contrasting red stitch pattern on seats, door inserts and steering wheel. The dark theme further extends to the Black Roof Lining & Pillars. A vibrant touch of dynamism is added with the Sporty Dark Red Dash Garnish and Glossy Black AC vents. Taking the cabin experience a notch above is the 7-Colour rhythmic ambient light placed intricately to match the aesthetic of the sporty cabin and energetic drive. Honda City Sport - Powertrain Powered by Honda's refined 1.5L i-VTEC petrol engine [E20 compliant] coupled with CVT and Paddle Shift delivering 121 Hp of peak power, 145 Nm of max torque, and 18.4 km/l fuel mileage. It further gets Honda SENSING (ADAS) for enhanced safety.
TimesLIVE
2 hours ago
- Automotive
- TimesLIVE
Honda-backed Helm.ai unveils vision system for self-driving cars
Honda Motor-backed on Thursday unveiled its camera-based system to interpret urban environments, dubbed Vision, and said it was in talks with other carmakers to deploy its self-driving technology in mass market vehicles. is working with the Japanese carmaker to integrate its technology in the upcoming 2026 Honda Zero electric vehicles, which will allow users to drive hands-free and take their eyes off the road. "We're definitely in talks with many OEMs and we're on track for deploying our technology in production," CEO and founder Vladislav Voroninski told Reuters. "Our business model is essentially licensing this kind of software and also foundation model software to the carmakers." The California-based startup's vision-first approach aligns with Elon Musk's Tesla, which also relies on camera-based systems as alternate sensors such as lidar and radar can increase costs. However, Voroninski said while has foundation models that work with other sensors, its primary offering remains vision-focused. Industry experts said other sensors are critical to safety as they can act as backup for cameras, which are known to underperform in low-visibility conditions. Robotaxi companies such as Alphabet's Waymo and May Mobility use a combination of radar, lidar and cameras to perceive their surroundings. has raised $102m (R1,839,466,847) to date and counts Goodyear Ventures, Korean car parts maker Sungwoo HiTech and Amplo among its investors. Vision combines images from many cameras to create a bird's-eye view map, which helps improve the vehicle's planning and control systems, the company said. The system is optimised for several hardware platforms made by Nvidia and Qualcomm. This enables carmakers to incorporate Vision into their existing vehicle systems, which include their own technologies for predicting and planning vehicle movements.
Daily Telegraph
3 hours ago
- Automotive
- Daily Telegraph
Car giant's space fight with Musk
Don't miss out on the headlines from Motoring News. Followed categories will be added to My News. One of the world's biggest car makers has joined Elon Musk in the race to the stars. Honda has officially entered the space race alongside Musk's Space X, after Japan's second largest carmaker announced it had successfully launched a 'resusable rocket prototype'. In the same week, a Space X rocket dramatically blew up while preparing to take flight, Honda showed it was serious about its space exploration ambitions, first mentioned four years ago. Honda R&D, which is a subsidiary of Honda Motor Co. said it 'conducted a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket developed independently by Honda'. Musk's SpaceX rocket goes kablam. Picture X The rocket, which was 6.3m long, 85cm in diameter and weighed 1312kg, reached an altitude of 271.4m and landed within 37cm of the target touchdown point after a flight of 57s. According to Honda R&D, the purpose of the test, conducted at a Honda facility in Taiki Town on Hokkaido, the northern most of Japan's main islands, was the 'establishment of key technologies necessary for a reusable rocket'. 'This test marked the first launch and landing test conducted by Honda with an aim to demonstrate key technologies essential for rocket reusability, such as flight stability during ascent and descent, as well as landing capability,' Honda said in a statement. Honda engineers prepare the rocket. Picture: Honda Honda conducts a successful launch and landing test of its Experimental Reusable Rocket. Picture: Honda R&D 'Through this successful test, Honda achieved its intended rocket behaviours for the launch and landing, while obtaining data during the ascent and descent.' Honda announced in 2021 that it was 'pursuing research and development in the field of space technologies' with the thought that its discoveries could also be used in Honda vehicles. That includes in regard to automated driving systems and sustainable transportation. Honda is aiming at a suborbital launch by 2029. 'We are pleased that Honda has made another step forward in our research on reusable rockets with this successful completion of a launch and landing test,' Global CEO of Honda Toshihiro Mibe said. 'We believe that rocket research is a meaningful endeavour that leverages Honda's technological strengths. Honda said space tech is likely to be used in its future cars. Source: Supplied 'Honda will continue to take on new challenges—not only to offer our customers various services and value through our products, while addressing environmental and safety issues, but also to continue creating new value which will make people's time and place more enjoyable.' Originally published as Car giant's space fight with Musk
Hindustan Times
4 hours ago
- Automotive
- Hindustan Times
Honda City Sport teaser unveiled. Here's what it will be getting
The Honda City is expected to get a new 'Sport' edition in the coming days. Check Offers Honda Cars India has released a teaser video for its upcoming Honda City Sport sedan on social media. The carmaker is set to launch this new sedan edition in the coming days. However, the Sport edition of the sedan is likely to receive only cosmetic updates without any changes to the mechanicals. The manufacturer added the sentence, 'Read to live a sportier life? Stay tuned,' indicating that the new edition will feature elements that make the sedan look sportier. The manufacturer has been launching multiple different editions of its cars in order to improve the sales numbers and the City Sport Edition is one among these. Read further to know what is new in the upcoming edition of the sedan. Honda City Sport: What's new The new Sport edition will likely only feature cosmetic updates. Some of these will include elements like a 'Sport' badge, a black boot lip spoiler, a blacked-out grille, blacked-out wing mirrors and a fully dark-themed interior including a black roof liner. Also Read : Honda Cars India stays the course with EVs and hybrids amid global strategy shifts Honda City Sport: Engine and performance Honda has not made any mechanical changes to the City Sport Edition. It will continue to come with its tried and tested 1.5-litre i-VTEC petrol engine that puts out 119 bhp and 145 Nm of peak torque. This engine puts power down to the wheels through a 6-speed manual transmission or a 7-step CVT automatic. Honda City Sport: Fuel efficiency Since there are no mechanical changes to the Honda City Sport Edition, the fuel efficiency of the car will remain similar to the standard City. The sedan offers a fuel efficiency of 17.8 kilometres per litre with the manual transmission and 18.4 kilometres per litre with the automatic transmission. All the values mentioned are certified by ARAI. Honda City Sport: Pricing expectations The Honda City Sport edition is likely to carry a higher price than its standard sibling. The standard edition of the Honda City is currently priced starting at ₹ 12.38 lakh (ex-showroom) base SV Petrol MT trim and goes up to ₹ 16.65 lakh (ex-showroom) for its ZX Petrol CVT trim. However, an interested buyer might have to shell out about an extra ₹ 25,000 to ₹ 35,000 for the Sport edition of this sedan. Check out Upcoming Cars in India 2024, Best SUVs in India. First Published Date: 20 Jun 2025, 09:11 AM IST
Indian Express
5 hours ago
- Automotive
- Indian Express
Honda-backed Helm.ai unveils vision system for self-driving cars
Honda Motor-backed on Thursday unveiled its camera-based system to interpret urban environments, dubbed Vision, and said it was in talks with other automakers to deploy its self-driving technology in mass-market vehicles. is working with the Japanese automaker to integrate its technology in the upcoming 2026 Honda Zero series of electric vehicles, which will allow users to drive hands-free and take their eyes off the road. 'We're definitely in talks with many OEMs and we're on track for deploying our technology in production,' CEO and founder Vladislav Voroninski told Reuters. 'Our business model is essentially licensing this kind of software and also foundation model software to the automakers.' The California-based startup's vision-first approach aligns with Elon Musk's Tesla, which also relies on camera-based systems as alternate sensors such as lidar and radar can increase costs. However, Voroninski said while has foundation models that work with other sensors, its primary offering remains vision-focused. Industry experts say other sensors are critical to safety as they can act as backup for cameras, which are known to underperform in low-visibility conditions. Robotaxi companies such as Alphabet's Waymo and May Mobility use a combination of radar, lidar and cameras to perceive their surroundings. has raised $102 million to date and counts Goodyear Ventures, Korean auto parts maker Sungwoo HiTech and Amplo among its investors. Vision combines images from multiple cameras to create a bird's-eye view map, which helps improve the vehicle's planning and control systems, the company said. The system is optimized for several hardware platforms made by the likes of Nvidia and Qualcomm. This enables automakers to incorporate Vision into their existing vehicle systems, which include their own technologies for predicting and planning vehicle movements.
