All Posts Tagged With: "Honda Fit"

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Fuel economy drives down new-vehicle gratification

 
Luxury brands still top J.D. Power study results
Americans found their new vehicles slightly less gratifying this year than last year.
That decline was caused in large part by declining consumer gratification with the fuel economy of their new vehicles, according to this year’s J.D. Power and Associates Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout Study.
The average overall score […]

June 30th, 2008 | On The Road | 0 comments | Continued
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Honda dealers scramble amid stampede to small cars

 
For two days last week, Honda dealer Rene Isip stalked the lanes at the Manheim auto auction in Orlando, Fla., in search of used Civic and Fit cars for his store in Katy, Texas.
Isip’s dealership, one of the top 100 Honda stores in the nation, was almost depleted of new ones.
“We’re out of Fits,” he […]

June 18th, 2008 | On The Road | 0 comments | Continued
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Gas Prices Fuel Industrys New Era

As gasoline prices top $4 a gallon, the shift by U.S. consumers from big, powerful trucks to small cars with small engines is now a stampede.
Fuel prices are roiling the auto industry in a way Americans have not seen since the panic that followed the embargoes by oil-exporting countries in the 1970s. Industry executives and […]

June 3rd, 2008 | On The Road | 0 comments | Continued