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Old 07-23-2008, 10:03 PM   #8 (permalink)
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In Canada, Honda tweaked both the Fit and Civic to marginally improve fuel economy and qualify for the fed's EcoAuto program (significant rebate for cars with fuel consumption below a certain limit). If I'm not mistaken, they did this in well under a year - but they also likely made it a top level priority.

And GM improved the Cobalt to a much greater degree than Honda did their cars.
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