Honda has released it June 2008 sales figures and they are reporting record sales (see sales chart below). Honda sold 142,539 units which is an increase of 13.8% on a daily-selling-rate basis. So far year to date sales are up 4.8% which equates to Honda selling 798,358 units so far this year. [...]

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This is the last post in our series on fuel economy so we thought we would look at the hybrids. When going over the data for the hybrids I had to ask myself “Why do some automobile companies even bother?” The thing is that some of these hybrids gets worse fuel economy than [...]

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Update: Not exactly sure why the chart got all screwed up for minivans. The entire post is written in Microsoft Word 2007 utilizing the blogging feature. The charts looked great when I uploaded them. Believe it or not the entire post took over an hour to write, all the charts are [...]

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Hope everyone had a good weekend! We got part three in this series out on Saturday. On Sunday we decided to add a few new features to the site on Sunday (see our last post). Now it’s Monday and time to continue on with our fuel economy series. Our series continues [...]

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So it is Saturday and we are now ready to get part three written. Like I said in my last post on the large cars the EPA has surprised me with the classification of the 2008 Honda Fit as a station wagon but hey that’s ok because it is the big winner in the [...]

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