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4th Retail Market for Honda's Natural Gas-Powered Honda Civic

By: Jonathon Hewitt

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Yank Honda Motor Co., Inc., today announced that dealers in Oklahoma will currently have the option of selling the compressed natural gas (CNG) powered Honda Civic GX to customers on a retail basis. There are thirteen Honda dealers in Oklahoma, 3 of that are already selling the Civic GX as a fleet vehicle.

"Expanding Honda's Civic GX retail program together with the continued success of fleet sales expresses our commitment to the environment and natural gas vehicle technology," said Elmer Hardy, senior manager of Different Fuel Vehicle Sales & Marketing. "Honda seeks market opportunities for the Civic GX where strong natural gas refueling infrastructure exists, and we tend to Honda Auto Financing continue to see its promise as a clean, sustainable, domestically-sourced various fuel."

Honda is the only OEM currently selling a CNG-powered vehicle on a retail basis within the United States. Additionally, the Civic GX is the sole OEM-engineered, CNG-powered Venice Auto Service passenger automotive assembled in America. The Civic GX is constructed on the identical assembly line as the gasoline-powered Civic four-door models at Honda's Greensburg, Indiana producing facility.

In 2006, the Civic GX became accessible for the first time to retail customers in California. Since then, retail sales have expanded to New York, Utah and now, Oklahoma. Currently, forty three Naples Auto Service dealers in California, nineteen in New York and eight in Utah have added Retail Sales Addendums to their Honda Sales Agreements that enable them to sell the Civic GX on a retail basis. When as well as dealerships that sell fleet vehicles, there are a complete of 134 Civic GX dealers in 33 states.

Oklahoma is a perfect market to expand retail sales of the Civic GX with its low refueling costs, a generous state tax incentive toward the purchase of a replacement Civic GX and solid fleet sales. Because the second largest natural gas manufacturing state within the U.S., Oklahoma already incorporates a sturdy existing CNG station infrastructure with strong plans to expand the network over the next several years.

The 2010 Civic GX achieves an EPA-estimated city/highway fuel economy of twenty four/thirty six** miles per gasoline-gallon equivalent and is the only vehicle certified by the EPA to meet each Federal Tier a pair of-Bin 2 and Inherently Low Emission Vehicle (ILEV) zero evaporative emission certification standards. Additionally, the Honda Civic GX is that the cleanest internal combustion vehicle ever tested by the EPA, and for the seventh straight year, the Civic GX NGV was named "Greenest Vehicle" by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE).

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