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Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd has released some details on the upcoming 2008 Honda Accord. There will be three models available - a 2.0 liter, a 2.4 liter and a 3.5 liter V6, with the V6 model featuring the same Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) technology found in the American and Japanese version.

The 2.4 liter K24 engine will make additional power in this new guise, putting out 180 PS (177hp).

Read more details on the new Accord after the jump.

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These photos of three of the latest 8th generation 2008 model Honda Accords in Malaysia was snapped by Tony Yew as he was driving along the North South Highway.

The new 2008 Honda Accord will be in showrooms sometime this year to give the Camry a good fight. It will also be joined by the new locally assembled Peugeot 407 in the 2.0 liter range, so the battle for D-segment executive sedan sales should be an interesting one this year. Expect the Accord to be offered with 2.0 liter and 2.4 liter engines, with the latter having its power upped to 177 horses from the current 170.

The new 3.5 liter V6 model may be offered but probably as a halo model only, as exceeding the RM200k price bracket for the top of the line model puts it head to head with luxury C-segment cars and the Volvos.

I’ve driven the 2.4 liter and 3.5 liter V6 versions of the Accord in Japan last year, so visit the related links listed below to find out what my initial impression of the new Accord was. Look after the jump for three more photos.

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A Consumer Reports study in the US concluded that the best cars in the US are sold by Honda, taking into account reliability, performance, fuel economy, comfort, interior fit and finish, and ergonomics. It is also the only automaker in the rest to earn an overall reliability rating of Excellent.

Honda scored 78 on the test, followed by Toyota with 75 points and Subaru with 72 points. BMW, Mazda, Nissan, and Volkswagen are tied at 71 points, while American automakers like GM and Ford scored some of the lowest scores.

In the individual segment tests, Honda vehicles did not always come up tops, for example the Nissan Altima beat the new Accord (shown above, due on our local shores sometime this year) in the D-segment sedan category, but its vehicles consistently rated at the top of their respective categories. Shockingly, the Toyota Camry scored a below average reliability rating in the Consumer Reports study.

GM’s new models did rather well in their respective categories but its rating was dragged down by its older models. The results also showed that Japanese cars fared better than American cars.

Read the full findings here.

Grand Prize Winner of the F1 Simulator Challenge, Encik Tunku Muhammad Ilyas - Click to enlarge

Here are some snapshots from the Honda F1 Roadshow at the Queensbay Mall in Penang during the weekend. It should give you an idea of what to expect if you drop by the next roadshow held at Sunway Pyramid this Friday to Sunday (7th to 9th).

Just a recap - there will be information on the new RA108 Earthdreams car, and a mock-up of the 2007 season’s RA107 will also be displayed. The F1 car simulator competition and other games could win you prizes worth more than RM10,000, which include grandstand tickets for the upcoming Malaysian leg of the F1 race.

As Soichiro Honda once said, “Without racing, there is no Honda.” For more information on the roadshow schedule, please visit the post in the related links below.

More photos after the jump.

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I’m sure alot of you will remember the Mugen Fit Dynamite, one of the most desirable examples of a tuned up Honda Fit (called the Honda Jazz in our market) out there. The Mugen Fit Dynamite had under its hood a high revving K20A engine similiar to the unit in the Civic Type R and Integra Type R. Sometime later, Mugen released an orange devil called the Mugen Fit Spec D Prototype, which had its 1.5 liter SOHC VTEC L15A engine boosted to 145 horsepower with a supercharger.

Now that the second generation 2008 Honda Fit has been released, Mugen naturally had to reapply the Spec D concept to this new edition of the Fit. The Mugen Fit F154SC Concept was displayed at the 2008 Tokyo Auto Salon. The L15A engine which already made 120 PS in the new Fit had a supercharger slapped on to produce 150 PS at 6,600rpm and 185Nm of torque at 3,800rpm.

An aggressive bodykit complete with 17 inch wheels wrapped with Bridgestone Potenza RE050 tyres in 215/40R17 size completes the the Mugen Fit F154SC Concept.

View more photos after the jump.

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Honda has changed the venue for the Honda F1 Roadshow in the Klang Valley from Mid Valley Megamall to Sunway Pyramid. Dates remain the same. For more information on the Honda F1 Roadshow, refer to the previous post linked below.

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Jenson Button, Testing, RA108, Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona

Honda Malaysia will be having Honda F1 Roadshows in four locations around the country. The first roadshow will begin this Friday to Sunday (29th February to 2nd March) at Queensbay Mall Penang. Next the roadshow will come to the Klang Valley during the weekend of 7th to 9th March and it will be held at Sunway Pyramid. Then the show will go down south to City Square Johor Bahru from 14th to 16th March 2008, before having its last stop at One Utama New Wing between 20th and 23rd of March 2008, this time for 4 days - Thursday to Sunday.

Honda Malaysia says these Honda F1 Roadshows are organised to inspire and spur common car racing spirit with Malaysians. Improvements to its Formula 1 race machine, codenamed RA108 this year, will also be introduced. Besides providing information on the F1 sport, the roadshows will also give have interactive and fun games with prizes to be won.

USF-Hicom Sdn Bhd is now selling several CBU Japan Honda vehicles here in Malaysia. Three variants of the Honda Elysion and one variant of the Honda StepWGN are available. The 2.4 liter Elysion goes for RM265,000 while the 3.0 liter V6 model goes for RM295,000. The top of the range 3.5 liter V6 Honda Elysion Prestige (shown above) with 300 PS and 353Nm of torque goes for RM325,000. Both V6-equipped Elysions feature cylinder deactivation. The 2.0 liter Honda StepWGN goes for RM180,000.

The company is also looking into the introduction of the Honda Edix, which will be priced at about RM150,000 for a 2.0 liter model. This makes two AP Holder companies (not Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd) offering CBU Japan units of Honda vehicles, with the other being Naza World with its RM186,000 Honda Stream.

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Honda has released a collection of 4 photos of the new European Honda Accord as a teaser before the car is unveiled to the public for the first time at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. We get to see the Tourer’s front and rear, the sedan’s rear, and a shot of the car interior which looks rather similiar to the American Accord/Japanese Inspire at first glance, then you notice the more gadgety meter panel with integrated LCD displays in the center of the dials, as well as the different more vertically-shaped air cond vents.

The 2.0 liter petrol engine in the Honda Accord Euro will be putting out 156 PS, and the 2.4 liter engine will be putting out 200 PS at 7,000rpm and 233Nm of torque at 4,500rpm which is up from 190 PS and 223Nm of torque in the previous generation Accord Euro - This 2.4 liter engine in the Accord Euro is a higher powered version compared to the low compression 170 horsepower version that we get locally in our previous generation facelifted Accord. The 2.4 liter has also had its engine’s compression ratio upped from 10.5:1 to 11.0:1. A 2.2 liter i-CTDi turbodiesel engine option is also available naturally, with 150 PS and 350Nm of torque - 10 PS more than before.

A new feature in the Accord Euro is called Motion Adaptive EPS, which detects instability in slippery conditions both during cornering and under braking and automatically creates steering inputs prompting the driver to steer in the correct direction. It is not an outright override of the driver’s inputs but more of a supportive steering torque to prompt the driver to act intuitively.

More images after the jump.

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Honda has released these teaser images of the new European market Honda Accord, which has traditionally been very different from the model that the US and Asian markets get. Generally the European Accord is slimmer and sleeker, something like the first generation Mazda 6 that is sold on our markets. Europeans do not expect D-segment sedans to be big and fat as over there a younger crowd is able to afford them.

These teasers are for the Tourer (estate) model, but we will see both the sedan and Tourer models unveiled at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show this year. The US market will most probably get this car, but badged as an Acura TSX, as the previous generation CF-series European Honda Accord was also badged as the first generation Acura TSX.

Expect styling to be based on Frankfurt 2007’s Honda Accord Touring concept.

More shots and a video after the jump.

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