Honda Recall January 2010

For the two automakers, it hasn’t been a good week.

Today’s Honda notice is for the Honda Fit Hatchback. The recall reportedly covers the 2007 and 2008 Honda Fit. An estimated 646,000 models are affected.

The Honda recall is not about an acceleration issue like Toyota’s. Rather it’s reporedly about a faulty window switch.

Reports say that the switch if not recalled in time could heat up dangerously causing emission of smoke, or may melt up to catch the fire.

Honda Recall Fit/Jazz and City – Honda Motor said that they are going to have a worldwide recall of their cars. Honda recalls 646,000 Fit/Jazz and City automobiles globally due to a faulty window switch after a child died when fire broke out in a car last year. The Honda Recall includes 140,000 vehicles in the United States and covers the car models sold in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa and Asia, but not Japan.

The Honda U.K. said, when water entered the drivers’ windows of the Jazz model and reached a master power switch, it could cause the switch to overheat and “potentially cause fire.”

Honda Fit is best-selling model in Japan. The Honda Recall was to fix a defective master switch, which could allow water to enter the power window switch and in some cases cause a fire, the company said. The spokeswoman said, there were three reported cases of fires cause by the defect, two in the United States and one inSouth Africa. The Honda had recalled all 2002-2008 model year Jazz units in South Africa and 172,000 in Britain, a spokesman for Honda in Britain said.

For complete details contact your local Honda deal or contact 1-800-999-1009.

The Honda Skydeck, a six-passenger concept vehicle

Do not get us wrong – we are in no way saying you should give up his sports car and invest in something more spacious. Anyway, you could do worse than save your pennies for the Honda Skydeck, six seats hybrid minivan unveiled last month at the Tokyo Motor Show.

The Skydeck – shown right and above and in the video below – is considered a possible successor to the Odyssey, the current mini-van from Honda. To what extent is outside the Skydeck? Who knows. For now, it’s just a concept car – a twinkle in the eyes of some top designers from Honda.

Write Sam Abuelsamid at Autoblog warns car enthusiasts have no illusions:

Unlike the CR-Z, which is nothing more than a thinly veiled preview of a future production model, the Skydeck Honda remains a pure design studio at this time. Most car manufacturers to provide a complete list of specifications for a concept that is just fiberglass Buck Honda has not even that. All that the manufacturer says about this star Tokyo Motor Show, is that is a hybrid theory.

However, there are some things that a viewer can pick up the notice of Skydeck concept model Honda. First are the doors, revolving like a Lamborghini. Upstairs is a glass ceiling, and inside is the kind of detail you would expect in a limousine.

In a position of Jalopnik, Ray Wert said the inside is what makes the concept of Honda Skydeck interesting:

Remove the sliding doors and cutting and we’ll see an interior that resembles what would happen if Ikea has designed a cabin full of balsa wood and pieces of ASIMO. However, there is a certain beauty to the uber-minimalist interior and mounted on the center stack of floating chairs for easy access to the third row. Passengers can enjoy then the sun breathing throughout the glass ceiling, or just sit and relax.