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Honda has teamed up with a successful and popular Facebook application and online game.  Making a game or smartphone application is one of the fastest ways to get your product noticed on the internet today.  Honda is on top of the ball with their social networking venture.

"Car Town", as the game is called, was released on Facebook two weeks ago by Cie Games, Inc. and already has 3.1 million users.  Honda is displaying?

Honda will be introducing the Fit Hybrid at the 2010 Paris Motor show next month, but we have some of the latest news for you right here.

The new gas-electric version of the Fit, Honda's widely popular hatchback, is getting a lot of press.  It is called the Jazz overseas and has become one of the fastest selling Honda's on the road globally.

Available next year, you can be a proud owner of a green Fit hybrid. Fit hybrid will use the same powertrain as the Insight hybrid, also from Honda. Starting off with a 1.3-liter I-4…

Government and community leaders joined with Honda  associates at Honda of America Mfg.'s engine plant today to celebrate 25 years of manufacturing at Honda's largest auto engine plant in the world. In addition to producing the engines that power many Honda and Acura automobiles, the Anna Engine Plant is a driving force in the development of Honda's North American operations, and it has provided the foundations for the creation of numerous parts plants in Ohio.

Since starting with just 94 associates on July 22, 1985, the Anna Engine Plant has grown to become Honda's largest automobile engine factory, with an annual capacity of 1.18 million four- and six-cylinder engines - enough to stretch from Cincinnati to Cleveland and back again. The Anna plant supplies engines to five Honda assembly plants in Ohio, Indiana and Ontario, Canada.

"This anniversary is a great opportunity for us to pause and celebrate the many accomplishments...

Honda is looking to make the Civic Hybrid and Insight more green by lowering emissions and waste.  The Japanese auto maker is looking towards green technology in all aspects of their vehicle design and production.

Being the second largest auto maker in Japan, Honda is realizing the difficulty in leaving a small carbon footprint.  But they are about to break ground on a new 980,000 sq. foot plant that will be as green as they come.

Mr. Ito said that innovative technologies introduced at the new Yorii plant "would create a benchmark for other Honda manufacturing plants, aiming to reduce the energy use in vehicle production by more than 30 percent."

"The Yorii plant will start with small-volume production of environmentally-responsible vehicles which requires highly sophisticated manufacturing technologies to mature its advanced technologies," Mr. Ito said.

"Yorii will evolve such manufacturing technologies that are keys to the next-generation of Honda, to other Honda operations around the world to achieve the global growth of Honda."

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With a starting price of $19,950, 2011's Honda CR-Z, coming to showrooms in August, is slated to have the lowest starting price for a hybrid in the United States from a major automaker.

The CR-Z also is expected to be the only hybrid in the country offered with a manual transmission - so you young folk who only know automatics better get back to driver's ed and learn the basics. The six-speed stick?

Honda is well known for its decades of quality car production and hybrid engine enhancements. But now the Japanese auto maker is showing off a new side of their production line-up. The company is selling a private jet.

The dubbed HondaJet is the first venture into aviation for Honda. Like it does with its cars and motorcycles, Honda is saying that HondaJet incorporates "many technological advances in aviation design."

Among those advances are engines mounted?