Asian car manufacturers have been enjoying much success for the past months. Whether in production or in sales, they have been doing better than their counterparts who are based in the US. In fact, these Asian car makers are expected to combine for more than half of the US market share some time later this year. With problem after problem plaguing the US based auto manufacturers, Asian car makers look like they might do just that. Honda is one of the more prominent car manufacturers from Asia that has had good success doing business in the United States and everywhere else.

Recently, the Japanese car maker announced their automobile production, domestic sales, and export figures for the first month of 2007. Honda made a good start this year by posting record figures for sales, production, and export. Both the domestic and overseas production of Honda has increased their overall production figure for the past month which is surely higher than the same period last year. This is the nineteenth month that Honda has broken their production record for the past year. The momentum started back in August of 2005 and it looks as if the trend will not be changing in the near future, thanks to their lineup of cars that has captured the attention and the interest of quite a number of car buyers.

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Environment consciousness has been growing in the public and this is what a recent survey shows. PULS, a German-based trend and market researcher conducted an online survey so as to find out what the public’s preference in car is.

They have polled more than 3,500 people who have either recently bought a car or is planning to buy one in the near future. They have conducted the survey in the different countries – United States, Germany, France, Great Britain, India, and China. The result shows that a large number of their respondents would go for hybrid vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles over gasoline or diesel powered units.

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