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Not to nit pick, but people seem a little confused over labeling and because of that are not finding past vehicles for comparison and historical reference.
The Civic HF is a new, not yet produced car, the earliest high gas mileage Honda Civic was the two door hatch back Civic FE (1980-1983) with a 1.3L engine.
1984 it was was a new body style for the Civic along with the introduction of the CRX, for that single year you could get a 1.3L engine and a transmission geared for high mileage in either the body of the 5 seat civic hatch back or the 2 seat CRX, EPA MPG numbers are hard to peg down for these cars but I've seen claims as high as 58mpg.
1985-1991 the Civic-CRX (sub model of the civic, just like the Del Sol is the Civic-Del Sol) was built with an HF option, this was only available in the CRX's 2 door, 2 seat body style.
1992 when the CRX line was dropped is when the Civic VX hatch back came in.
1996 Honda's highest gas mileage car changed to a non hatch back for the first time ever as the two door Civic HX coupe, so from 1996 to 2005 the HX live with a slight over lap with the Civic Hybrid that started being offered in 2003.
In my mind it would be logical for Honda to do something along the lines of offering the Hybrid as a fully loaded high end car and the Civic HF as a basic no frills car, I think that doing this would bring back alot of their lost customers who are sick of fancy automated expensive cars.
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