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The Honda Super-N has added another award to its growing collection, being named Fun Car of the Year at the News UK Motor Awards 2026.

Will Dron, Digital Driving Editor at The Times and The Sunday Times, praised…

Honda has become the first company in the world to receive the highest five-star rating in the FIA Road Safety Index's products and services assessment.

The new rating recognises Honda's comprehensive approach to road safety – from the development of safer vehicles and technologies to driver and rider education, collision research and the promotion of a strong safety culture.

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The all-new Honda Super-N has been named Best Value Car at the 2026 What Car? Electric Car Awards, recognising its combination of affordable electric motoring, practicality and driving enjoyment.

Priced from £18,995, the Super-N is Honda…

We are proud to announce that Richard Roberts, Managing Director of Trident Honda, has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in His Majesty The King's Birthday Honours List 2026, for Services to Charitable Causes.

The award recognises more than three decades of voluntary service…

Honda Motor Europe (UK) is proud to announce that it has secured first place in the highly respected 2025 What Car? Reliability Survey. With an impressive overall score of 96.6%, Honda has once again demonstrated its commitment to engineering excellence and customer satisfaction.

The survey results are based…

Honda's all-new Prelude e:HEV sports coupe has been named 'Best Coupe' by the Best Cars of the Year organisation at the 2025/2026 New Car World Championships, following the return of the iconic model after 25 years away.

The Honda Prelude has arrived in Europe, allying an advanced hybrid powertrain and innovative Honda S+ Shift with a striking design approach to deliver the 'joy of driving' for which the model has always been known.

New Car World Championships judge Peter Lyon said…

Following a succession of awards, including the Which Awards 2024: Best Buy - Small Cars, the Honda Jazz has now been awarded Best Small Car for Practicality by the What Car? Car of the Year Awards 2025.

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The Honda Jazz is the small car to beat for passenger space…

Honda Motor Europe (UK) has won the Feefo Platinum Trusted Service Award, an independent seal of excellence, which recognises businesses that consistently deliver a world-class customer experience.

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Honda UK has won The Motor Ombudsman's 'Customer Service Star Award'. Honda also became the first ever two-time winner of this category in the annual Star Awards competition, having also won the award in 2022.

Nearly 3,300 online nominations were submitted by motorists…

Honda Jazz e:HEV was named 'Used Hatchback of the Year' for the second year in a row at the 2024 What Car? Used Car Awards. The Jazz is praised for its "spacious interior, comfortable ride and family-friendly practicality" by What Car?

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Originally published 11/07/2024. This page relates to a previous Honda model and is provided for historical interest only.

The Honda Civic Type R has retained its title as Hot Hatch of the Year at the 2024 Auto Express New Car Awards, while the Honda Civic e:HEV was highly commended in the Affordable Hybrid Car of the Year, and Family Car of the Year category.

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Honda has been crowned 'Car Brand of the Year' at the Which? Awards 2024. Praised for being the best of the best.

The Which? Awards were launched 17 years ago to celebrate and reward the very best businesses in the UK. Each year they select and publicly recognise those companies and individuals that consistently get it right for their customers.

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The Honda Civic Type R has once again reaffirmed its dominance in the automotive world by clinching the prestigious UK Car of the Year award in the Performance Car category. Celebrated for its outstanding driving dynamics and unparalleled performance for price point, the Civic Type R emerged as the champion in a fiercely competitive field.

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Honda's Civic e:HEV has been named 'Best Hybrid' in the Carbuyer Best Car Awards 2024. The 11th generation Civic delivers refined, exhilarating hybrid performance and dynamics, with elegant design and exceptional comfort.

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The Honda Civic family has picked up two award wins and is commended in a third category at the 2023 Auto Express New Car Awards. The Honda Civic e:HEV was named Affordable Hybrid Car of the Year and nominated in the Family Car of the Year category whilst the iconic Type R was crowned Hot Hatch of the Year.

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The current model Honda CR-V has been named the Best Hybrid Car up against fierce competition in the prestigious Auto Trader New Car Awards 2023.

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Honda has won two honours at the 2023 Red Dot Design Awards, for the all-new Civic e:HEV and for the Civic Type R.

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Both the Honda Civic and Honda Jazz continue to prove its credentials in one of the most sought-after accolades in the automotive industry, winning the title of 'Small Car of the Year' for Jazz and 'Family Car of the Year' for Civic at the 2023 What Car? Awards. Honda was very close to securing a hat trick as the all-new Civic Type R was also shortlisted for 'Hot Hatch of the Year' Award.

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The all-new Honda Civic e:HEV has been awarded the maximum five-star rating in the latest Euro NCAP safety tests. Embodying Honda's commitment to zero road fatalities involving any of its products by 2050, the 11th generation Civic features a number of improved and upgraded technologies to achieve one of the highest level of passenger and pedestrian safety in its class.

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The all-new Honda Civic e:HEV has been named Car of the Year 2023 as well as Best Medium Family Car in the annual Parkers New Car Awards.

Parkers test all the newest cars on the market and provide reviews and information to support the public with their car purchasing experience. Every year, the car experts from Parkers, with help from the CAR and Fleet News teams, whittle down the best cars in a number of categories and crown their top recommendations. The categories are enormously competitive, and the shortlist can be unlimited.

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Honda UK has won the prestigious Auto Express 2022 Drive Power Dealers Survey, for Best Dealer, recognising the excellence of the Honda dealer network. The Honda CR-V also won awards for Best Safety Features and Best Interior.

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Following its success at the 2022 What Car? Awards, being named as the Best Small Car, the Honda Jazz has scored a hat-trick by way of two further endorsements from the jury at Which? Magazine for being the 'Most Reliable Small Car' and a 'Best Buy' in their 2021-2022 car tests and surveys.

Editor at What Car? Magazine, Steve Huntingford commented:

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The Honda Jazz Hybrid continues to prove its credentials, in one of the most sought-after accolades in the automotive industry, winning the title of 'Small Car of the Year' at the What Car? Car of the Year Awards.

To be eligible for a What Car? Award, a car has to have been tested back-to-back with its rivals, both on UK roads and at What Car?'s dedicated test track.

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Honda has extended its outstanding winning streak, with success in the 2021 World Car Awards. The Honda e added the World Urban Car of the Year title to its growing list of recent prestigious accolades, as well as being shortlisted in the top three of the overall World Car of the Year award.

The Honda Jazz e:HEV also featured in the top three for the World Urban Car prize, as the Japanese brand dominated the category.

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Honda's new hybrid-only Jazz and Jazz Crosstar models have been awarded the highly coveted Red Dot Awards 2021 in the 'Product Design' category. These internationally renowned accolades are only bestowed upon the highest quality products that excel in product, brand and communication design.

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The Honda e has been awarded some of the most prestigious accolades in the motoring business, including:

TopGear Awards - City Car of the Year 2020, German Car of the Year 2020, Stuff - Best Electric Vehicle 2020, Red Hot Design Awards 2020, Motor Awards 2020 - Best Small Car, and Autocar Awards 2020 - Best Car Tech.

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Honda's first battery electric vehicle for Europe, the Honda e, has been named 'German Car of the Year 2021' in the country's prestigious annual Car of the Year Awards, becoming the first vehicle from a Japanese brand to do so. The car also won in the 'New Energy' category.

• Honda e also tops 'New Energy' category of the prestigious German awards
• Latest win follows Europe-wide success including recognition from Red Dot Design Award, Autocar magazine (UK) and News International (UK)
• Honda's compact EV also nominated for Car of the Year 2021 in Hungary and Denmark
• Awards endorse Honda's commitment to creating advanced and beautiful products, designed without compromise

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Honda's Civic rose to the top again at the Company Car Today's CCT100 Awards, taking Lower Medium Car of the Year for the third year running. Chosen from a pool of 100 cars, it was named amongst the twenty award-winners that represent the very best company car choices for business fleets across various automotive segments.

Edging out the likes of the BMW 1-Series, Mercedes A-Class and Volvo V40, the Civic's victory is no mean feat. In eclipsing the competition, the Civic attained a higher overall score across a range of metrics - such as performance, residual value and insurance cost - by which the judging panel assessed the contenders' company car credentials.

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Honda UK has taken a brace of honours at the 2020 What Car? Car of the Year awards with the Civic Type R taking best hot hatch, for the third year in a row, and the CR-V hybrid taking the best hybrid over 30,000, for the second year in a row.

• Civic Type R takes Hot Hatch trophy for the third year in a row
• CR-V hybrid named best hybrid over 30,000 beating off luxury competition

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A proud day for Trident Honda as our Managing Director, Richard Roberts, won the prestigious National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) Recognition Award for 2019.

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Originally published 13/05/2019. This page relates to a previous Honda model and is provided for historical interest only.

The latest-generation Honda CR-V continues to prove its credentials as the world's most popular¹ SUV, winning the title of 'Best Car Launched Last Year' in the influential Auto Trader New Car Awards.

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Honda triumphs with hat-trick in the annual MPG Marathon:

• Civic diesel hatchback takes outright win AND best percentage improvement
• 16 year old Insight comes second overall, taking highest in the heritage category
• Driver Paul Clifton claims second overall win at annual MPG Marathon

Team Honda has triumphed in the annual MPG Marathon taking home a hat-trick of titles. The Civic diesel hatchback claimed the overall winner's prize in this year's event as well as best percentage improvement on MPG, while the first generation 17 year old Honda Insight took second place overall and winner in the heritage category.

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Earlier this year, Honda took three of the top awards in this year's Honest John Awards, with the Jazz, Civic and HR-V winning the gongs for small hatchback, small family car and small crossover of the year respectively.

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The British-built Honda Civic Type R has taken home another trophy, this time at the 2018 Auto Express Awards, taking the title of Best Hot Hatch for the second year running.

Widely acknowledged as one of the most prestigious awards of the car industry, the annual Auto Express New Car Awards are given to the cars that set the highest standards in their class each year. These awards are highly important for both carmakers and customers because of the authority and integrity of the Auto Express brand.

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An international panel of automobile experts has named the Honda Urban EV Concept as 'The Best Concept Car' in the renowned 2018 Car Design Award honours, presented today as part of the Turin Motor Show.

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Honda Civic Type R Wins What Car? Hot Hatch of the Year

• Civic Type R excels with yet another Hot Hatch of the Year award
• Made in Swindon, the new Civic Type R is British built and exported world wide

The British built Honda Civic Type R has won the coveted What Car? Hot Hatch of the Year.

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Originally published 26/01/2018. This page relates to a previous Honda model and is provided for historical interest only.

The Honda Civic has been victorious in the Lower Medium category of Company Car Today's inaugural CCT100 Awards.

The inaugural Company Car Today CCT100 Awards spotlight the top company car choices and give fleets the best options for their business car operations.

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Honda has triumphed at the inaugural Workshop Magazine awards, picking up Car of the Year with the Jazz and the coveted Manufacturer of the Year.

Readers voting for the Jazz praised the car's logical design which makes it simple to repair. It was also noted that parts are readily available from Honda. Similarly, the manufacturer of the year was voted for by readers and Honda was commended for its efficiency and strong relationships with workshops.

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The Honda Civic Type R has triumphed in the coveted BBC TopGear magazine Car of the Year awards, taking a hat-trick of honours. Picking up the hot hatch of the year, international editors' car of the year and then going on to claim the overall prize, car of the year.

BBC TopGear magazine said:

The Civic Type R isn't just the best Hot Hatch of the Year, it's the best Car of the Year,

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The all-new Honda Civic Type R has won the 'Best Performance Car' category in the prestigious Women's World Car of the Year Awards. These international car awards are unique in having a judging panel comprised entirely of women.

• Thrilling hot hatch adds to its collection of awards since global launch
• New Civic Type R is made in Swindon and exported worldwide
• Women's World Car of the Year is the only awards voted for entirely by women

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Originally published 30/10/2017. This page relates to a previous Honda model and is provided for historical interest only.

The Honda Jazz has been named Most Reliable Small Car in What Car? magazine’s 2017 Reliability Survey, with the owners of the popular supermini reporting no faults with their car.

The survey - published in the December issue of Britain’s leading consumer automotive magazine - asked owners of 14,208 cars to ask if their cars had suffered any faults in the last 12 months.

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Originally published 12/01/2017. This page relates to a previous Honda model and is provided for historical interest only.

We're delighted to report that Honda's next-generation Civic Type R has won the coveted What Car? reader award and has been named as the most eagerly anticipated car launch of 2017.

Demonstrating its huge popularity, the Type R took almost half of the votes and clinched the top spot in the poll compiled by What Car? experts and voted for by the readers.

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The European Organisation of Consumers and Users (OCU) has carried out a survey with more than 30,000 European drivers asking about the reliability of their cars. According to this survey Honda is the most reliable brand, with users choosing the Honda Jazz as the most reliable vehicle.

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The HR-V has scooped the 2015 What Car? Car of the Year Reader Award! What a way to kick off the year! Thanks to everyone who voted.

The annual Which? Car Survey has named the Honda CR-V 2.2 i-VTEC the UK's most reliable 4x4/SUV up to three years old; with zero reported breakdowns, average annual repair costs of just £10 and an overall reliability score of 98.5% over a twelve month period.

Furthermore the CR-V shone through with 0.14 faults reported, compared to 0.88 for the worst performing in its category; and 0.11 days off the road, with the worst performing recording an average 1.09 days.

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The readers of whatcar.com have cast their votes in the annual Reader Award placing Honda as the Most Trusted Car Manufacturer in the 2013 What Car? Used Car Awards.

Honda climbed the table to become the most trustworthy manufacturer to buy a used car from, thanks to great service, enjoyable customer experience, quality of the cars, the contents of approved Honda packages and overall value for money.

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Trident Honda of Ottershaw and Weybridge are in the running for a prestigious national award for Customer Care, after reaching the last three franchised dealers in the annual Motor Trader Awards. The team are now looking forward to July 10th when the winner will be announced at a ceremony in London.

Reaching the finals of the competition caps a great few months for the Group, which this year celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. Richard Roberts, Managing Director, puts the secret of success down to the passion and commitment of his 100-strong team. Richard comments:

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We are very proud that last night our Managing Director Richard Roberts was presented with the Paul Harris Fellowship Award, an award rarely given to someone outside of the Rotary organisation.

It was awarded for the many years of charity work and support given by Richard in his role both as Managing Director of Trident Garages and outside in his personal life. At the ceremony, attended by a number of Woking's charity organisations, Richard said:

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The British built Honda CR-V has fought off fierce competition to be crowned Most Popular 4x4 by expert motoring website http://honestjohn.co.uk. The CR-V came out on top as Google Analytics data, which analysed the number of page views for each car over the last 12 months, recognised it as the most searched for 4x4 on the site. The reliability and robustness of this British built model are just some of the qualities why users are regularly searching for this car.

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What Car? has launched TrueMPG, an exciting new initiative to give Britain’s car buyers the most realistic fuel economy information possible. What Car? TrueMPG, tests cars on real roads in exactly the same conditions that every motorist faces every day.

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Cars may be more reliable in 2011, but breakdown services remain a valuable source of help - and peace of mind - for motorists. Which? asked 7,366 drivers to rate the service they received when they called for roadside rescue.

They found Honda Roadside Assistance to be the best manufacturer-branded cover. Its excellent 77% overall score puts it well ahead of Club Toyota (67%) and Mazda European Assistance (64%). 'Premium' makes fare less well, with BMW (47%), Land Rover (46%) and Mercedes (44%) in the bottom three places.

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Honda (UK) is very proud of their reputation for excellent customer service, which they have built up over many years. Honda's dedication to customer service has seen them achieve 2nd position in the 2010 JD Power Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Survey, and they continue to strive to improve.

Since 2005 Honda has invested in a team of dedicated staff to call a sample of customers who visit Honda dealerships either to buy cars or have their current cars serviced and ask them about the level of service received.

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Honda's CR-Z - the world's first sporty hybrid - has impressed judges at Stuff magazine, Japan Car of the Year and the RAC Future Car Challenge to collect three top accolades in just seven days.

On Tuesday, the hybrid coupe beat tough international opposition to become Japan Car of the Year 2010-2011. This is the 11th time a Honda car has collected the prestigious honour - making it the most successful manufacturer in JCOTY history.

Takanobu Ito, President and CEO of Honda Motor, said:

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Honda has announced that it has been presented with one of the first Euro NCAP Advanced rewards at Paris Motor Show. Honda's CMBS technology has been recognised as amongst the best safety innovations, offering research proven benefits, by Euro NCAP.

Euro NCAP Advanced is a Euro NCAP initiative in response to the rapid development of new safety technologies available when buying cars for which there is no independent assessment. Euro NCAP Advanced is open to any technical system that has a demonstrable safety benefit, whether it is primary, secondary or tertiary, as long as it is available as an option on one of the Euro NCAP tested cars and not already addressed by the current star rating.

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Honda has done exceptionally well in the JD Power/What Car? 2008 UK Customer Satisfaction Index Study. In addition to ranking overall as one of the top three brands, it also picked up the greatest number of model segment awards - finishing in the top three in no fewer than five model categories.

Unsurprisingly the Honda Jazz picked up the crown for small cars; Honda Civic came third in the lower-medium segment; Honda CR-V was rated the top SUV.

Well done Honda!

Originally published 10/01/2008. This page relates to a previous Honda model and is provided for historical interest only.

The Civic Type R has been named Top Gear Hot Hatch of the Year. The award was presented by Jeremy Clarkson to Bernard Bradley, General Manager - Cars, at the Top Gear Awards dinner in London on Thursday 10 January.

For the second year running Honda has achieved second place overall in the J D Power Survey, scoring highly across all four categories - vehicle quality and reliability, vehicle appeal, service satisfaction and ownership costs.

The latest results mean Honda has appeared in the top five spot for the past five surveys. The Jazz yet again finished first in its class, making it four years in a row and an unbroken record since Jazz was first included in the 2004 results. The Jazz also finished third in the overall model ranking table, making it Honda's highest achieving model to appear.

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FOR THE third consecutive year, the Honda S2000 has been voted by 56,000 Top Gear magazine readers as their favourite car, with the Honda Jazz being voted the second best.

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Honda was the most reliable and affordable manufacturer. Land Rover finished bottom of the makers' list, a repeat of last year's result.

The survey of 111 models revealed that Japanese manufacturers top the charts again with Honda keeping hold of its number one position. The Honda Accord, which was top, was built in Britain, and the Honda Civic, which finished runner up, was also constructed in the UK.

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Originally published 22/03/2006. This page relates to a previous Honda model and is provided for historical interest only.

Honda's S-2000 has come out on top for the second year running in the Auto Express Drive Power 2006 reliability survey.

The study, which reveals the best and worst cars in the UK according to over 46,000 motorists, gave the S-2000 a satisfaction rating of 92.6%, beating off competition from the brand's other models the Accord and Jazz.

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