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A View on Pakistan’s Automotive Industry
The advent of automobiles changed the landscape of transportation forever. The unprecedented developments in automotive engineering pave the way for one of the most dominating industry in the world having massive potential for the future. Today automobiles are not just foundations for transportation but have become a way of life. Pakistan a country of 180 million plus people is one of the most attractive frontiers for automobiles in the world. Pakistan’s automobile industry made its humble beginnings in the year 1953 under the umbrella of National Motors Limited established in Karachi. Assembly of Bed ford trucks were the first output …
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Honda introduces the 2013 Civic in Si trim
A year after the 2012 Civic was launched, Honda asked it’s dealer to sell out the stock because an emergency facelift was coming, and so it came to internet while we had to wait for the actual production model to be unveiled at the 2012 LA Auto Show and today, Honda has unveiled the 2013 Honda Civic in Si trim, the sporty variant of the normal Civic. The powertrain remains the same, a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine with 201 horsepower and 170 lb-ft of torque, available only with short throw six-speed manual gearbox. Honda has introduced revisions across the range for …
Pakistan likely to join top 5 motorcycle producing and exporting countries
At the launch of the new model ‘Pridor’, which is reminiscent of the old Honda H100-S which was discontinued quite a long while ago, T Oyama, senior managing director of Honda Motor Company Japan said that Pakistan will be amongst the top five countries producing and exporting high quality motorcycles in the next few years. Honda Atlas, after investing $ 35 million here this year, expanded the capacity to 750,000 units an year and now plans to take the capacity to 1 million in a couple of years by investing $ 50 million. The plan which is currently under study …
2013 Honda Accord Coupe HFP comes to SEMA and 2015 Civic Type-R to have 250 BHP
Although Pakistan is by the grace of God safe from hurricane Sandy yet we experience longer electricity black outs than New Yorkers are facing right now so we have had to post two exciting news in one about Honda showing off its performance version of the coupe called the HFP. Also, Autoexpress reports that the 2015 Civic Type-R will have 250 BHP. The 2013 Honda Accord has just begun to arrive to dealerships globally, but SEMA came first and we got a chance to look at what Honda has got in store for us. This is the high performance version …
Buy a CNG Honda Civic and get $3,000 fuel card free in the U.S.
Its been often heard in Pakistan by buyers of local cars that dealerships don’t even provide enough fuel in the car for it to arrive on the nearest gas station to fill it up but in South America, where CNG is only $2 (192 PKR) for a gallon, a new deal has been given on CNG Honda Civic where the buyer would get $3000 worth of fuel card free. Although Pakistan is one of the largest consumers of natural gas in vehicles, yet Honda hasn’t introduced its NGV Civic over here. It maybe have something to do with the image …
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Honda Civic is the women’s car of the year
The redesigned Volkswagon Beetle was globally perceived as a feminine car and with the 2012′s model release, VW begin a new campaign to get over that image of a female car and begin targeting men as well. It’s still hasn’t worked out yet as men still don’t prefer it. Mazda Miata was another example, it had the same problem although it was basically, a fun little Indus Corolla – only better. A lot better. Ranked on almost all the top car lists as the best car in the world, be it Discovery channel’s list or other automotive media, like Jalopnik, …
Comparison: How the new Civic is better than the old one
Some say that it’s rear resembles heavily to that of the Toyota Camry XV30 while others say that it’s pretty difficult to distinguish it’s front from that of the 5th Generation Honda City but all what we know is that it’s called the 9th Generation Honda Civic! Going back to April, 2011 when the 9th Generation Honda Civic was first launched in the North American Market, it didn’t really impress people who had high hopes from the designers at Honda after seeing the revolutionary interior and exterior design of the 8th Generation Honda Civic. As Honda is known for bringing …
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Honda Civic 2013 Launch Event
The PakWheels team managed to get up, close and personal with new Civic at Launch event held at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore. The event was targeted primarily towards the media and customers who were interested in booking the car. The car is currently on display at the PC Lahore. The 9th generation civic offers a number of new features compared to the previous model. We will be following up with a detailed review on what’s new in this version.
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Official Press Release: New 2013 Honda Civic Launch
Honda introduces the 9th Generation New Civic terming it “The Scent of Success” Honda Atlas Cars (Pakistan) launched the much anticipated new model Civic in press conference held in Lahore on 18th September 2012. Speaking at the occasion, Chairman Honda Atlas Cars(Pakistan) Ltd , Mr. Yusuf H. Shirazi reiterated his confidence in Pakistan and its economic potential. He underlined that at Honda Atlas quality is an attitude aimed at winning customer acceptance, trust and goodwill, gains being a long term objective. A direct contribution of 19 Billion(1.15% of the total tax collection) to government exchequer by the group in addition …
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Ninth Gen Honda Civic comes to Pakistan
Atlas Honda without making any noise, brought the latest Civic into Pakistan like a ninja literally like one. While globally, in 2010-11, Honda gained quite some attention before rolling out the 9th Gen Civic by producing quite a lot of sketches and teasers and they did help its launched. It was delayed from 2010 to 2011. But rightly so as market conditions wasn’t good at that time and tougher fuel economy and emissions regulations. At the time of writing this, Atlas Honda’s website hasn’t been updated yet but new models always come late into Pakistan. A lot late. The ninth …
