the time has come to order new ocho business cards and stew (administrator) thought the site should come up with and vote on a new design.
here’s the plan….
if you want to enter, send in your design before September 15th. the site will vote on winner for the remainder of the month and a winner will be announced October 1st.
card must include:
• the 8thcivic logo
• www .8th civic. com (no spaces)
• 8thcivic@autoguide.com
• a “referred by” field
• an eighth civic (coupe, sedan, both)
you may submit up to 3 entries yoselfs. please submit entries as a .jpg and 3.5 × 2 inches (8.9 cm x 5.1 cm). these will be posted up for site viewing and voted on. the winner will need to submit final product in photoshop (.eps) format.
staff is planning to vote for a final 5 just like ROTM….maybe 10, it depends on how many submissions there are. also, depending how it goes…we may extend or shorten the length of this contest. as of right now, there is no plan to award a prize. having your design sent out should be plenty of prize, but who knows...
feel free to use the last version as a template for ideas on what to include…. anything like “join our community”, “your #1 source…”, technical, marketplace, regional, forum, Honda... [Read More]
Honda may drop both the Civic Hybrid and the Insight from its lineup in Canada. According to a recent report by Monvolant, the two hybrids will be eliminated from the product plan – likely in response to dismally poor sales. This would then leave the new CR-Z as the only hybrid in Honda Canada's lineup.
When the Insight launched over a year ago, Honda Canada projected sales of 10,000 units. But poor press, a high-dollar asking price and competition from the significantly more fuel efficient third-generation Toyota Prius may all be contributing factors to the fact that just 748 Insights have been sold so far this year. Worse still are Civic Hybrid sales, with just 643 units moved in 2010.
With such low Honda hybrid sales you'd expect the Prius to be conquesting a lot of buyers, but that doesn't appear to be the case with just 2,272 third-gen Prius models sold in Canada so far this year. While there are no hard facts surrounding why Canadians are turning away from hybrids, possible factors include the higher price of the cars in Canada, the lack of large urbanized cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal stand out as exceptions) and the colder climate often means hybrids don't perform up to their lofty MPG targets.
Honda's highly acclaimed Civic Type R will end its European sales run later this year after emissions regulations become too strict for the car's 2.0L engine.
12,000 Civic Type Rs have been sold since 2007, but Honda chose to remove the model from the European market rather than modify it to meet Euro V regulations. Despite being built in Europe, the car will remain in production at Honda's Swindon, England facility for export markets like South Africa and Australia.
A new Civic Type R is due for the 2012 model year, but Honda is set to honor current Type-R owners with a special outing at the Silverstone race track's British Touring Car Championship event at the end of August.
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