Honda Civic Hybrid Review
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Honda Civic |
As gasoline prices continue to soar the world over, the emergence of hybrid vehicles has become timely and necessary. As consumers aim to cut on their gasoline consumption and ultimately lower expenses especially during these trying times, demand for efficient transportation and vehicles really spruce up. Thus, when Honda came up with its own lines of hybrid vehicles, car buyers are quick to show warm reception.
The Honda Civic Hybrid is the current hybrid flagship of popular Japanese car manufacturer Honda Motor Company Limited. However, the vehicle is not the first and initial foray of the company into the hybrid car market. Before the Honda Civic Hybrid was introduced, Honda first rolled out the Honda Insight, a two-seater, fuel-efficient car. Because car buyers simply love sedans, Honda quickly developed its own hybrid that would combine the cost efficient features with the posh characteristics of a sedan. The result was the Honda Civic Hybrid.
Observers also note that hybrids like the Honda Civic Hybrid would practically flood the market as consumers await for the development and launch of futuristic cars that run on hydrogen fuel cells. But for the meantime, hybrids are still more viable and feasible. To begin with, Honda Civic Hybrid and other hybrid cars basically combine power and function of an electric motor with those of diesel or gasoline engine.
The Honda Civic Hybrid is a basic four-door sedan. The car is capable of fully fulfilling and meeting the same transportation functions of other small sedans. Many admirers and users of the Honda Civic Hybrid find the car practical, functional and of course, well made, just like the Civic platform, which is the main car model to which the hybrid is patterned after. To simplify the description, the Honda Civic Hybrid is a hybrid car version of the popular Honda Civic.
The car has refreshed and truly attractive interior and exterior style that really lures many car buyers. In comparison to the Insight, the Honda Civic Hybrid is lower, longer and wider. The hybrid can never be let down in terms of better economy and higher performance. Honda asserts that the overall design of the Civic Hybrid embodies the company's efforts not to allow the wind tunnel system and design dominate the overall features, just like what it did in Insight and like rival Toyota Motor did to its own hybrid called the Prius.
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Honda Civic40 / 45 MPG |
| BODY TYPE |
Compact Sedan |
| MSRP |
22600 |
