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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Kyle Cowan |Tyler Anderson |Norm McDonald
This area os along the perimeter of the 2024 Riley Fire in Denali National Park and Preserve. The 2025 wildfire season is off to an early start in Alaska's coastal region. (Bureau of Land Management photo)The record-low snow conditions south of the Alaska Range have had big impacts across the state, especially around wildfire potential.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
autoblog.com | Tyler Anderson
Honda just had a record year in 2024, with more than 400,000 sales of the CR-V thanks to the availability of a hybrid model. As the company looks forward to the new year, it has formally announced that the CR-V and the HR-V subcompact crossover will undergo some significant changes. Although the HR-V isn’t nearly as popular as the CR-V, it still sold over 151,000 units last year, making it a valuable asset in Honda's portfolio. Both models last received a new look in 2023.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
autoblog.com | Tyler Anderson
Honda’s first foray into the electric vehicle market is going well, with the Prologue selling 33,000 units in 2024. The Prologue is based on the Chevrolet Blazer EV, a crossover that uses Ultium batteries supplied by General Motors. Not only did Honda's first EV outsell its own Passport, but it also managed to sell more units than every EV made by GM. Now, Honda is back with an EV of its own design, and it will wear an Acura badge on the grille.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
autoblog.com | Tyler Anderson
Things are not looking good in Germany, and we're not talking about Volkswagen this time around. Audi sold fewer cars in 2024 than it did in 2023, and we’re not talking about a small decline. The company faced significant setbacks, with double-digit percentage losses for some of its models. In terms of annual sales, Audi sold 196,576 vehicles in 2024, a 14 percent drop from the 228,550 vehicles it sold in 2023.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
autoblog.com | Tyler Anderson
The Accord used to be a consumer staple of Honda’s lineup; its bread-and-butter, the bee’s knees, the ace in the hole. Not so much these days. Honda has turned to the CR-V as its breadwinner, with the Civic selling nearly a quarter million units. The Accord, meanwhile, is seeing sales tumble, but Honda isn’t panicking just yet. Production priorities shift to EVsSo, what do the numbers tell us? Honda moved 162,723 Accords in 2024, or 35,000 less than the prior year's 197,947 units.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
autoblog.com | Tyler Anderson
For many elders, a sensible way of driving usually encapsulates a relaxed experience, with comfortable seats to pamper them as they tootle to key destinations and back. Not so for 80-year-old Naoko Nishimoto of Nagasaki, whose sole choice of transportation for 25 years was a Mazda RX-7. A Japanese YouTube channel documented her final drive as she returned it to the dealer.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
autoblog.com | Tyler Anderson
EV demand is down overall, but for some manufacturers, EV sales are on the rise. After a hindered start, General Motors finally got its electric vehicles into people’s hands, and the results show that the most popular model isn’t badged as a Chevrolet but as a Honda. Prologue outsold every GM EV and then someOver the course of 2024, Honda sold 33,017 Prologue EVs, while Chevy sold 23,115 of its own EVs in the same time frame.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
autoblog.com | Tyler Anderson
Nissan’s prospect of a better future continues to improve amid merger talks with Honda. As Mitsubishi achieved record sales in 2024, so did the Nissan Z in its sports cars segment. The manual Toyota Supra might have sold a surprising amount of units, but wait until you read about the new Z. Nissan moved 3,164 units of its heritage sports car last year, compared to 2,615 Supras sold by Toyota. Yes, these are niche numbers, but Nissan needs all the positivity it can get if it wants to survive.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
mahoningmatters.com | Tyler Anderson
Nissan's prospect of a better future continues to improve amid merger talks with Honda. As Mitsubishi achieved record sales in 2024, so did the Nissan Z in its sports cars segment. The manual Toyota Supra might have sold a surprising amount of units, but wait until you read about the new Z. Nissan moved 3,164 units of its heritage sports car last year, compared to 2,615 Supras sold by Toyota. Yes, these are niche numbers, but Nissan needs all the positivity it can get if it wants to survive.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
autoblog.com | Tyler Anderson |Tyler Anderson
Manual fans, rejoice: the Toyota Supra saw far more cars sold with a clutch pedal in 2024 than it did the previous year. Stats tell us it’s not even close, with 65 percent of Supras opting for the six-speed over the eight-speed automatic. Massive gains in manual salesThat’s a 22 percent improvement compared to the 2023 fiscal year, which itself saw a not-insignificant 43 percent of Supras sold with a manual transmission.
