i'm very impressed on the civic's ability to beat all those European and more pricey models! As well as some of the American models, bravo Honda. A hybrid you can indeed truly call "safe to be in".

i got around 20 km a liter when i drove a civic 5 spd using advanced hypermiler techniques
and now I drive a salvage nwh20 prius that gets almost to 25 km/l with 195,000 km to date.