What's wrong with the Civic hybrid?
Fuel economy interest up to start 2008, but Civic hybrid sales down?I received an interesting e-mail from blogger, Mike, regarding some data that he put together regarding the sales of fuel efficient vehicles (more). While sales of the EPA's most fuel efficient vehicles were up about 15 percent in January of 2008, Honda Civic hybrid sales were down 2 percent.
All other hybrid vehicles are seeing huge increases in hybrid sales, except the Nissan Altima hybrid, which was flat. What gives I wonder?
Labels: honda civic hybrid, hybrid vehicle sales, Hybrid Vehicles, nissan altima hybrid
posted by Dahcredyns at
12:52 PM
2 Comments:
Hybrid buyers are practical. The Prius hatch gives it a lot better loading and traveling configuration.
While I like the Civic and Honda itself, the Civic Hybrid is less practical. If you compare its price and fuel economy to the regular Civic, its not worth the difference so much.
I think if the prius came in a regular ICE setup or the Corolla came in a wagon or hatch-back, you might see a similar phenomena with Toyota's sales.
Its probably because the 2006-07CIVIC Hybrid is less efficient than its predecessor. It is not available in manual transmission, and its has significant instrumentation whine. The price increased, but the efficiency did not. Also the Civic only has one set up, whereas the Prius can include options. I have owned 2 civic hybrids.
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