They Say Ads Misled Them Into Believing Their Hybrids Would Deliver EPA-Rated MPG In what must be sending chills down the collective spine of every automobile manufacturer in the land, Honda Motor Co. has offered to settle a class action suit brought by two customers who say they were deceived by the EPA-rated mileage claims for 2003-07 model year Honda Civic Hybrids. The Civic Hybrid fuel economy suit doesn't challenge the veracity of the government's city and highway MPG calculations, though. It attacks Honda's reliance on them when advertising and marketing the gas-electric hybrid. Instead of the EPA's 49 mile per gallon city and 51 mpg highway ratings, the two named plaintiffs – both from Southern California – said they were averaging only 31 mpg in their Civic Hybrids and felt that Honda's advertising had misled them. The company should have made an effort to tell shoppers that they might not get the EPA-rated fuel economy in their cars, they argued. Gosh
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Honda Owners Sue Over Civic Hybrid Fuel Economy, Automaker Offers Settlement
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