Daily Auto News Coming Soon: Honda Fit Hybrid
Daily Auto News
Honda’s wildly successful Fit, our Best Subcompact Car for the Money award winner, may soon get even more appealing.
Reuters reports, “Honda Motor Co plans to roll out a gas-electric hybrid version of its Fit subcompact car in the autumn of 2010, about a year and a half ahead of the original schedule, to tap growing demand for low-emission vehicles.” The company “has said it plans to launch three more low-cost gasoline-electric cars by 2012.”
The 2010 rollout, Kicking Tires notes, would probably occur first in Japan, “before a worldwide launch later on.” Reports in Japan’s Nikkei Business Daily quote “a starting price of roughly $15,800 for the Fit Hybrid when it goes on sale in Japan. That’s $3,000 less than what the Insight is selling for in Japan,” but Kicking Tires cautions, “We can’t imagine the Fit Hybrid going for that small an amount, and suggest that the report be taken with a grain of salt.”
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