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California isn't being so lenient about the vehicles allowed to drive in the HOV designated areas. At the beginning of July, all yellow-stickered partial-hybrid vehicles are officially banned from HOV areas of the highway unless they meet mandated passenger criteria. Happily, the natural-gas-powered Honda Civic gets a white sticker.

Vehicles with white stickers continue to drive in the HOV areas. This includes not only the natural-gas-powered Honda Civic, but all other natural-gas-powered vehicles and…

Honda offers drivers the highest initial quality in company history, according to J.D. Powers and Associates Initial Quality StudySM for 2011. Findings show they're now positioned second, in terms of initial-quality scores, among all luxury and non-luxury automakers alike - and that they have the most individual segment leaders industry wide.

Five of the notable segment leaders are made in North America. In no particular order, they are the Honda Civic, Honda Accord, Honda…

Available for a test drive at Fletcher Jones Honda in Chicago, IL, the Honda Civic EX-L adds some advanced features to the base model.

It's a little more aerodynamic than before, but there is no mistaking the Civic. One of the Japanese auto maker's best selling cars of all time has been slightly redesigned for 2012. In the end, we know it's a Civic, and it will never disappoint.

With their DX…

Honda's profits have jumped to huge numbers in 2011 so far, and the Japanese auto maker received another great honor - Greenest Auto Maker. This isn't the first time Honda received the award, in fact this is the 5th straight year Honda has become Greenest Automaker. The 2011 Honda Civic GX, fueled by compressed natural gas, was also named Greenest Vehicles of 2011 by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.¹

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So what does the "CNG" in the upcoming 2012 Honda CNG stand for when you hear or see ads? Civic Natural Gas - that's right, the Honda Civic, available soon at your local Honda dealer, can now be powered by natural gas.

With gasoline prices hitting $4 a gallon (and more) alternative fuels are going to become big business once again. Honda has been working on a natural gas variant of the Civic since the…