Comments on: Honda Civic Hybrid – Greenest Car

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:03:24 +0000

Dear Gums,What language is that? It seems you should be concentrating on schooling, rather than the environment,then we all may be able to take your comments seriously,I may be just some old fart, who is seriously contemplating the purchase of a hybrid,but I would appreciate serious comment in our native tongue.

By: gums

gums — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:56:56 +0000

sory to wreck ur fun but that is the worst posible car ever… the interor is dual it looks drewy but thats not why it was voted…becuase its enviromental…yeah right. just to make a batrey does more enviromental damage then u think. to get the zinic for the batries it is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury Ontario.(north america) (im not american) This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the around the plant to test moon rovers. this is due to the acid rain created from the smelting…the plant has spread sulfar dixode for miles around the plant killing all plant life…but this is not all the nickle is then refined in europe after a long boat ride acros the global. the batries are finaly made and the placed in cars such as the terible pruis (oh what a feeling…of anger that car gives of.)the g-wiz the lexus lh500 are just to name a few… so infact to make many of these hydbrids u would have to drive a supercar such as lamborghini muchelago and its not a roadster its a areo top…form over 600,000km and those cars are much beter bult and much beter to the enivroment than the civic pruis…so do tell me why by fule econemy…well no yes u can get redicullous somes of fuel econmey if u drive like a gramma i couldnt find very much good reports becuase toyota and honda and many more companys tend to represse this infomation. so be green and by a holden commadore becuse u are excepted to get 180,000kms out of that as a road going car and well over 700,000km for a holden comodore. and that means those in brisbane who are using them as taxis are losing a total of $6.5 per km much beter than the $3 from a commardore…

By: Gemma Ward

Gemma Ward — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:08:36 +0000

Gemma Ward…

Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts !…

By: Turtle Dove

Turtle Dove — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:10:19 +0000

Turtle Dove…

The pen is really mightier than the sword, as you have proven here….

By: Myke

Myke — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:43:37 +0000

^
About a week ago, carsguide in the herald sun, said that the Commodore would have a diesel by the end of the year. I can’t find the article online, but it was definitely in the paper.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:35:41 +0000

Ummm I dont think so… its been posted up here in some other article comments by someone high up at Holden, they have no plans for a Diesel Commodore in the near future….

By: Myke

Myke — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:44:59 +0000

Holden are planning to use a diesel engine in the Commodore by the end of the year. Producing around 180kw and 550Nm.

By: Lazybones

Lazybones — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:38:37 +0000

Yeah Myke, I did laugh when Ford this week selected LPG as their future fuel. I was expecting that sort of comment from Holden.

By: Myke

Myke — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:51:37 +0000

^agreed
I would also like to see government rebates for hybrids. Most are so expensive, that the price of the car at the beginning, would in the long run, cost more than a car of similar size that isn’t a hybrid.

And considering not many people are warming to the idea of LPG, this would be a better solution and encourage more car companies to make hybrids.

By: Lazybones

Lazybones — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:29:59 +0000

I think its good to have the choice, for a while it seemed like Prius was going to be the only serious Hybrid. What i’d like to see is some government rebate for Hybrids to make them more competitive.

In regards to the top 10, they are all (no surprise) very very small cars. The Civic & Prius are at least a good size for family use.

By: Myke

Myke — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:08:12 +0000

although it probably would make the top ten in Oz, considering most of those vehicles/engines aren’t even in Oz, in fact it only seems the Civic Hybrid is.

By: alborz

alborz — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:05:51 +0000

Yeah its odd that the Prius didnt even get in the top 10, specially given that the Yaris and Echo (aygo) were there

By: Myke

Myke — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:03:35 +0000

cheaper and more powerful than the prius too. The Prius didn’t even make the top ten!