Greenest Automaker Title Goes To Honda

By: Lauren Woods

The 2007 Greenest Automaker title has been given by the Union of
Concerned Scientists (UCS) to the Honda Motor Company and such a
title has been bestowed to the car maker for the fourth time.

The latter is currently considered to the car company in the US
which is fuel efficient. And the title is actually given out by
the UCS every two years and the UCS decides which company
rightfully deserves to take home the title after considering
which car makers has vehicles in their US fleet which has the
least number of overall production of emissions that forms smogs
as well as emissions that affect global warming.

Don MacKenzie is a UCS vehicle engineer and he backs up the
group's decision by saying, "Honda remains the greenest U.S.
automaker. The company installs clean technology across its
entire fleet of cars and trucks and that consistency makes it a
top environmental performer. Honda is one of only two automakers
to have better-than-average global warming scores in every class
of vehicles it sold in MY2005. In addition, Honda continues to
have the best smog score in four out of the five classes."

Of course, we all do know that Honda is one of the leaders when
it comes to looking deeper into new technologies that could help
alleviate the further destruction of our environment. And with
all the new technologies that they are able to create, they are
also able to create practical applications that would help out
improve a vehicle's fuel efficiency. Honda's vehicles are also
created so that it can be used with a Weapon R cold air intake
system that could even further enhance the performance of
Honda's green vehicles.

Honda is also one of the leaders when it comes to creating
vehicles that lessen greenhouse gas emissions which are quite
harmful to the environment. They are also one of the car
manufacturers working on alternative fuels that could replace
current gasoline fuel.

John Mendel is the company's executive vice president for its US
arm and he affirms, "We are proud to be recognized as a leader,
and will continue to challenge ourselves to improve the
environmental performance of our company and our products." He
does even further add, "We have entered a period in history
where society is more critically aware of how the actions we
take today determine the course of our environmental future for
generations to come. We accept this as our challenge."

About the author:
Given her background on cars as an auto insurance director,
Lauren Woods finds the world of cars to be constantly changing.