He bought a Honda.

Other UK car manufacturers have raised fears about leaving the EU without agreement on how cross border trade will function, including Honda, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

By now, many have heard about plans by big carmakers including Honda, Toyota, and Hyundai to launch hydrogen fuel cell cars commercially around 2015. Daimler, Ford, and Nissan plan to launch such cars around 2017.

Japan was affected by a strong earthquake this week, which resulted in a shortage of automobile parts and components. Honda, Nissan and other auto manufacturers said today that their will cut production, and even suspend local auto production.

Recent policies to improve rural economic conditions have slowed the flow of migrants from the countryside. Workers are demanding higher compensation to match the fast rising cost of living in China s cities, as manifested in an ongoing and high profile labor strike at a Honda plant based in Guangdong.

Already, there have been major strikes at factories across China Motorola, Honda, and Foxconn, among others. That would have been unheard of several years ago, as would today s growing trend among China s urban middle classes for de urbanization a brain drain whereby educated city dwellers give up on the rat race and return to the countryside in pursuit of cleaner air, open spaces, and better accommodation.