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Are you looking for the right car to buy or lease in the Valencia area?  If so, then we'd like to recommend the CR-V.  It's proven to be incredibly popular here at Barber Honda year after year, and as proof of that, this vehicle topped the crossover sales charts for the nation this April.

It's an impressive member of our new Honda inventory, and we'll let the numbers speak for themselves:

• The CR-V sold 26,519 units in April alone
• This is an increase of nearly 3,000 units from 2012 numbers
• To date, the vehicle…

A lot of our customers from the greater Bakersfield and Valencia areas come into Barber Honda looking for a safe and practical vehicle that will fit their whole family and all of the sports equipment, science fair projects, and groceries that come with one, two, or more kids.  Beyond these qualities, most people are also looking for a car with entertainment options and a powerful engine, because there is no reason that a family vehicle should ever be boring for the driver or passengers.

There are many reasons why our customers in the greater Bakersfield and Valencia areas buy cars from Barber Honda year after year, and while the technology, safety, and comfort options in our lineup of new  vehicles keeps people coming back, it's more because of the trust and reliability that fans of the Japanese brand know they will always find here at our showroom.

The vehicle experts here at Barber Honda have always recommended the Honda Fit to our budget-minded customers in the greater Valencia area.  We're not the only ones who think it's a high quality, cost conscious car that doesn't sacrifice on performance; U.S. News & World Report recently awarded the hatchback with two of its "Best Car for the Money" awards.

It's a well-known fact that Honda is a Japanese auto brand, but we think most of our customers would be surprised to learn that the company has not built a manufacturing plant in its base country in over fifty years.  The last one was in Sayama in 1964, but this is all about to change.

The auto industry is constantly changing and evolving, always coming up with a great new idea to make driving a little more fun or gas mileage a little bit better.  As soon as the engineers at Honda come out with one exciting model, they are reinventing their designs to make it even more amazing for the next year.  At Barber Honda, we know that no matter how innovative and advanced a new Accord or Pilot  may be, there is always room for improvement in future models.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recently posted its "greenest vehicles of 2013" list, and Honda stood out with 5 different models making the cut.  All of these new vehicles are recognized for demonstrating superior environmental achievements.  The manufacturer has worked extremely hard over the past few years to ensure that its lineup excels in efficiency without sacrificing performance, and here at Barber Honda we are very proud to see that these vehicles have earned such high ratings.

California recently put some rather tough new smog standards into play, but that isn't stopping innovative auto brand Honda from rising to the challenge. The California Air Resources Board recently officially approved the 2014 Accord PHEV in the state.

Most Honda fans would concede that the brand employs rather intelligent business tactics, and that doesn't seem to be changing any time soon. In a time where reducing, reusing, and recycling are at the forefront of companies' minds, this Japanese automaker has also added "cutting costs" to this eco-friendly list. So, how will the company both cut costs and become a lot "greener?" Well, rumor has it that the brand has plans to reduces its purchasing costs for three top-selling models by about 30 percent in the next 3-4 years due to the adoption of a common platform and…

Since 1987, Japanese auto brand Honda has exported over $22 billion worth of vehicles and parts from the United States. Now, the brand has plans to become a "net exporter" of autos from North America, which means that it will export more vehicles from this continent than it will import from its home country of Japan. To do this, U.S. manufacturing facilities will take more responsibility for introducing global automobiles sold in multiple countries across the world.