Ikea goes hybrid with the Civic Hybrid
Ikea UK has decided it’s entire company fleet cars will be Honda Civic Hybrids. This decision is part of Ikea’s commitment to reduce it’s environmental impact. 50 Civic Hybrids will be supplied this year, and more orders will be delivered in 2008.
“Civic Hybrid is really taking off in the corporate sector where businesses want to be seen to be green. KEAs commitment to replace its entire fleet with Civic Hybrids is a real-life endorsement of the car and the excellent benefits it offers. In terms of cost, fuel efficiency and low emission driving the Civic Hybrid really stacks up,” says John Kingston, Environment Manager at Honda (UK).
So, is the new Civic Hybrid going to be offered in Malaysia? Perhaps Honda Malaysia could do a limited run or something. After all, there are a few units of the previous generation Civic Hybrid in Malaysia, and the latest Civic Hybrid is available in Singapore.
June 13, 2007 @ 2:16 am
Awesome, Ikea!
June 13, 2007 @ 7:48 am
What about IKEA Malaysia? A foreign manager there was provided with Perdana.
June 13, 2007 @ 9:18 am
quite a good choice. i too drive the Civic Hybrid and it is a nice car with good FC and surprisingly good acceleration (considering the petrol engine is 1.3l). however, braking feels a little strange at first probably because of the regenerative braking system.
June 13, 2007 @ 9:40 am
I don’t think many people will buy Hybrid cars in Malyasia due to reasons such as price, maintenance, lack of environmental conscious etc..
June 13, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
very true on that……besides there are not rebates or lower road tax for purchasing green cars which makes things look bad…..our governement doesnt really go into promoting green cars…..so therefore the only thing to look forward to is the 2009 euro 4 fuel which probably can see introduction of better fuel consumption vehicles and turbodiesels cars.
June 13, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
agreed…………..
June 13, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
Ikea ?
are we getting couch instead of normal automotive seats ?
June 16, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
…feeling like working for IKEA UK now