Honda Motor Co. Ltd.

All new Honda Motor Co. Ltd. vehicles for sale in Europe by 2025 will be battery electric or hybrid, Honda Motor Co. said March 5 at the press preview for the Geneva auto show.

Hardly anyone mourned the loss of manual windows — though a few of those anachronisms are still out there, tucked in the bargain corner of some dealerships' lots — but automakers are increasingly hitting resistance from consumers as they try to streamline and modernize their vehicles' interiors.

According to the just-released Henke survey, which evaluates the purchasing policies of North America's six biggest automakers, suppliers ranked General Motors just behind Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd.

Toyota and Honda top an annual survey of auto suppliers, but GM rises while Nissan falls.

The word “plastics” may not have been mentioned in Super Bowl 50 advertising, but it showed up in some of the most memorable ads.

Automotive lighting has gone from a functional necessity to a styling cue for headlights, taillights and even interior lighting. Now Honda Motor Co.'s Acura division is looking at new territory: The center high mounted stop lamp, or CHMSL.

Ridgeline boasts a first-of-its-kind in-bed audio system which forgoes conventional speakers to instead use special "exciters" to turn the composite bed material into the sound system.

Auto shows used to have their niches. Detroit was the show for pickups. New York was for luxury cars, especially chauffeur-worthy ones. Los Angeles and Tokyo highlighted green technologies.

As far as North American suppliers are concerned, Toyota and Honda are the gold standard, while Ford, Nissan, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors are also-rans.