Jim Mateja, Chicago Tribune, June 12, 2007
While consumers look for relief from high gas prices, and Congress debates raising fuel-economy standards, comes word that this fall there will be one less gas/electric car to put on your shopping list.
Honda will bring out a redesigned Accord sedan minus the hybrid version.
Some insist Honda is waving a white flag to the much-better-selling Toyota Prius hybrid.
Baloney!
Honda will continue to offer its compact Civic hybrid and plans to add another hybrid smaller than Civic in 2009, a vehicle about the size of a Fit that just might be built at Honda’s new Indiana assembly plant. Honda isn’t saying whether it will be a version of Fit.
The Accord hybrid is disappearing because Honda misread the market.
“We wanted excellent performance and pretty good mileage but found consumers wanted excellent mileage and pretty good performance from a hybrid,” said Honda spokesman Chris Martin.
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