Honda's Green Gifts Include CO2 Offsets
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 05.31.06
World Environment Day is coming (mark your calendars for June 5) and to support it this year, Honda will be giving away a green gift with each of their cars sold in June. The gift pack will include a carbon emission offset certificate for the month, with an option to extend it beyond June, and will also contain a box of organic Green and Black's chocolates, a 'Greener Driver' car bumper sticker and a booklet on tips to help reduce environmental impact. That's right; the driving logged by each new Honda in June will be made climate neutral, and while we aren't huge fans of buying whole new cars, if you're going to do it, might as well take it easy on the planet. ::New Car Net via ::Hugg (site in Beta)
Honda makes some great environmentally-friendly cars. The new Fit came out in April, and it's a great car to drive. It is considerably cheaper than a Hybrid car. I hope Honda expands the Hybrid line to the Fit, but I doubt it due to space limitations.
Stoneman
Actually Honda does have plans to make a hybrid fit and price at only $2500 over the base price. It's going to use the insight (R.I.P. 2006) drive train and should achieve over 50 MPG.