Honda Faced Hybrid Models Sales Decrease

Honda Motor Co car manufacturer announced its intention to reduce Honda Accord hybrid version manufacturing in the light of low sales rate as Dick Colliver, the company vice-president sated at the New York International Motor Show. Still he refused to unveil the data on the Honda Accord hybrid sales volume. At the same time such Honda hybrid models as Insight gained sales increase of 15% in 2005.

The Honda February 2006 gross European sales amounted 15 156 cars marking the 8.2 % growth compared to previous year.
In fact, Honda Accord hybrid entered car market in December, 2004. Hybrids – automobiles equipped with both electric and petrol engine posed as most perspective examples of ecology-friendly transport. Nevertheless recently hybrid cars reputation more and more suffer from criticism.

The experts argue that given hybrid cars price, service, repairs, fuel supplying factors the economy of hybrids comes out not really in the way as car manufactures advertise and assure of.

Finally in spite all pros and cons hybrid cars with petrol-electric engine type become more and more popular, in US market especially where hybrid car sales double every year. So in 2005 the annual rate amounted to 205 749 of hybrids while in the first quarter of 2006 – 48 685.