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If you own a 2003 to 2008 archetypal Honda Civic Hybrid, you may be advantaged to some cash.

In 2007, 120,000 Civic Hybrid owners — advance by plaintiffs John True and Gonzalo Delgado — sued Honda for commercial an EPA-estimated ammunition abridgement not cogitating of real-world figures. According to the New York Times, the automaker advertised a city/highway ammunition abridgement of 49/51 mpg — but the plaintiff’s cars alone netted an estimated 31 mpg.

To be clear, “The clothing stresses it is not arduous the alignment acclimated by the Environmental Protection Agency to adumbrate breadth but says Honda bamboozled consumers by not authoritative it bright that they were absurd to accomplish the agency’s figures,” adds the NYT.

While Honda afresh agreed to a adjustment agreement, it admits no atrocity — as it alone advertised what the EPA said the Civic Hybrid could net.

According to the acceding of the agreement, True and Delgado will airing abroad with abundant money to compensate a lot of of what they paid for their vehicles, but a lot of Civic Hybrid owners will not. Autoblog Green reports: “[T]he Japanese automaker has agreed to achieve the case out of court. If approved, owners of 2003-2008 Civic Hybrids will get a agenda account up to $1,000 to acquirement a new Honda or a analysis for $100 if they can prove they complained to Honda about their car’s mileage.”

Unfortunately for afflicted Civic Hybrid owners, the adjustment sounds beneath like amends and added like a Honda sales-stimulus package.

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