Honda Civic Type R

Honda CR-V

Honda Jazz

Honda Civic

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Honda is a company that doesn’t like to follow the crowd. So, while it competes in most of the traditional sectors of the car market, in each case it does something a little bit different.

The Jazz, for example, might look like just another rival to Britain’s best-selling car, the Ford Fiesta, but it’s actually much more practical than its rivals, with a flexible boot and Tardis-like interior.

The bigger Civic is also a practical choice, but it’s mainly distinguished by having eye-catching, love-it-or-hate-it styling, despite competing in a sector of the market that’s usually more conservative than a blue rosette.

And while it may not seem so radical now, Honda’s large SUV, the CR-V, was one of the first to forego any pretence of being an off-roader and instead focus on on-road driving dynamics.

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Honda will start a four-month shutdown at the end of today, as it announced a record fall in profits. The halt in production, which affects 3000 of its 4000 UK workers, means there will be no British-built Honda cars produced before June. Workers will receive full basic pay for two months, then 60% thereafter.

Staff will return to the production line on June 1, but they'll be making half the number of vehicles that they were producing previously. The shutdown comes on the same day that Honda announced their third quarter global net profits had plunged by 89%. Honda joins Bentley, Jaguar Land Rover and Vauxhall in cutting UK production because of the sharp downturn in demand for new cars.

Honda will start a four-month shutdown at the end of today, as it announced a record fall in profits.

The halt in production, which affects 3000 of its 4000 UK workers, means there will be no British-built Honda cars produced before June. Workers will receive full basic pay for two months, then 60% thereafter. Staff will return to the production line on June 1, but they'll be making half the number of vehicles that they were producing previously. The shutdown comes on the same day that Honda announced their third quarter global net profits had plunged by 89%. Honda joins Bentley, Jaguar Land Rover and Vauxhall in cutting UK production because of the sharp downturn in demand for new cars.