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A lot of automakers have revamped their minivans for the 2011 model year. In seeing the competition mount, Cars.com decided to host an all-new Ultimate Minivan Shootout.

For those of you not familiar with the company, Cars.com is a reputable online resource for new and used car buyers. For the Ultimate Minivan Shootout, they enlisted USA Today, Motorweek, and an Atlanta-area family of five to carefully scrutinize six updated 2011 minivans.

In total, the series of head-to-head Shootout contests, lasted the course of three days. The 2011 Honda Odyssey ranked first in terms of fuel economy at the…

The head of R&D at Honda, Kotaro Shige, is quite the dynamic man. He is by no means, the stoic suit, people who have worked for large corporations might expect. An integral part of the Honda team since the late '70s, he has, in fact, been referred to as Honda's 'Rock-Star Exec' and 'the Jimmy Page of Japan's auto industry', by Motor Trend magazine.

While you might think Motor Trend was just being complimentary to Shige, there's actually quite a bit of truth to the comparisons. For example, in his teens Shige played in a band…

The all new Honda Civic is back with its two-door Civic Si sports variant.

Unveiled at the 2011 New York International Auto Show, this high-performance Si borrows a muscle-car trick to boost its performance. Si implements a 2.4-liter four cylinder engine, which one could call a "2.4 a big block" as the hot rodders would say.

It's similar to what General Motors did over 45 years ago when it placed a full-sized car engine into its mid-size Pontiac Tempest. This began the GTO and 1960's muscle-car movement.

Civic Si produces 201 horsepower, making it the most…