Fuel Efficiency: Top Priority For Honda Civic

By: Jennifer Dylan

The demand for more fuel efficient vehicles has surely gone up.
Compared to previous years, the demand is much higher these days
perhaps because of the high fuel prices. And it looks like the
Honda Motor Corporation is set out on providing the market with
the right vehicle that would fill in the void.

What Honda will be doing would be actually to make sure that
their factories, plants, and other facilities would be able to
fill up the demand. The company would be making sure that their
facilities would have an increase in production so much so that
the production of those plants in North America could now start
producing up to 60,000 units of Honda Civic models per year.
These Honda Civic units would be those that are fuel efficient
and would hold engines with four cylinders to better facilitate
fuel efficiency. However, it is also important to note that
these plants would still be producing other Honda vehicles and
other parts
Honda with that.

The key parts of this plan of Honda would include that by the
February 2007, the company's production facility in Canada that
produces the Honda Pilot would then be transferring its share of
load to the Alabama plant. Such a mode would actually make the
Alabama plant create more vehicles. Then come April next year,
the Honda Civic sedan models would then be produced in the plant
in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. Since 1998, the plant has only
been creating light truck vehicles. However, this time, the
company has decided that this plant would be the best facility
wherein they would be able to produce more units of the popular
vehicle.

As per these plans, the company's executive vice president for
their American arm, does say, "We have been challenged to keep
up with record customer demand for our lineup of fuel efficient
cars and trucks. Our flexible production system is a wonderful
tool that enables Honda to better meet the demand of our
customers and dealers in an efficient and timely way."

At present, the Honda Civic units are built in two plants in
North America. One is the East Liberty plant while the other one
is the Alliston Plant.

About the author:
Jennifer Dylan is a 35-year-old gal who hails from San
Francisco. She has a habit of updating herself on new car trends
and models. She spends most of her time reading up on cars and
hopes to test drive them. She works for one of the topnotch car
parts dealer in the U.S.