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Is The Natural Gas Honda Civic The Only True Green Car?
One of the least known Honda Civic alternative fuel vehicles is the Compressed Natural Gas(CNG) vehicle. Environmentalists are all smiling about their hybrids and how much less fuel they use and how eco-friendly they all are for using electricity instead of gas. Well, the CNG Honda Civic is a hundred times more environmentally friendly on…
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CEO Ito Accepts Responsibility For Lackluster 2012 Honda Civic
The 2012 Honda Civic has been far from a critical or sales success. Critics express their displeasure with words and buyers have been expressing their displeasure by not buying Civics. During an interview at the Tokyo Motor Show, Honda CEO Takanobu Ito accepted responsibility for the poor performance of the Civic and vowed that his…
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Civic Type R – Performance for the budget-minded schumachers!
Ferraris, Maseratis, and Porsches make you your pulse rate go up and the hart start racing, but the money in the near or even mid-term future is barely enough for a decent family sedan… Why go for a typical yawnmobile when for your dollar you can have a ride to take you anywhere at the…
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The next generation of Honda civic will be even more futuristic
As the time passes the faithful adepts of the Civic model are watching closely the news anticipating the new generation of the best-seller. In what ways will it change, in what ways will it be better? Will it continue to be a highly reliable and fuel efficient car equipped with a rather hot tempered power-train?…
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Honda Civic On the Road – performance review
Quite a few folks are interested to see how the new Civic performs on the road. Honda fans have always been fond of the hot-tempered power trains employing racing technologies that Honda was famous for. Well let’s look at all the new upgrades. The main distinction is that now Civic has a 5-step automatic transmission…
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New Honda Plant in Greensburg Indiana to add Civic GX to roster
Originally announced June 2006 and a groundbreaking ceremony on March 19, 2007, the new Greensburg, Indiana plant finally began shipments on Oct 29, 2008 when Eugenia Olson drove the first Honda Civic off the assembly line at 7:50 a.m. The $550 million plant ultimately will produce 200,000 vehicles annually and employ 2,000 workers; the vehicle…
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2009 Honda Civic Offers Gentex Auto-Dimming Mirror
According to Gentex Corporation, their auto-dimming mirrors are now available as an option on all 2009 Honda Civic trim levels sold in European Union countries. “We continue to be pleased with our growing relationship with Honda,” said Gentex Senior Vice President Enoch Jen. “The Civic is one of the best-selling vehicles in the world. Making…
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UK Civic – Flaw in Handbrake
2006 Honda Civic Image via Wikipedia According to the BBC a flaw in the handbrake mechanism of the 2006-2007 Civic manufactured in Swindon, UK has caused the company to send notifications to all 63,000 owners to alert them of the problem. This is the second warning sent out from Honda regarding the faulty Handbrake problem…
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More than 1 Million Civics made in the UK
Thought they were all made in Japan or Asia? Well guess again, the honda factory in Swindon in the UK has manufactured more than 1 million Honda Civic’s since it opened on September 19, 1994. In it’s first year, the Swindon factory turned out just 6,652 Civics and by last year (2007) the factory was turning out more…
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We Are Back!
Hello readers. I am very sorry about the lack of new content during the last couple of months. I have been very busy with a new job and have not had time to keep the site up-to-date. Today I had some free time and decided to refresh the site by going back to the original…