A Mean Green Machine  It's not what you'd call fun to drive. And
it's way too conservatively styled for my tastes. But with
Honda's (HMC) new $20,010 hybrid gasoline-electric Civic, the
payoff comes at the pump.  I spent a week and 350 miles in the
2003 Civic Hybrid, and I logged 46.5 miles per gallon with
plenty of stop-and-go driving. The Environmental Protection
Agency rates the version I drove, with optional $1,000 automatic
transmission, at 48 mpg for city and 47 mpg for highway driving.
That's more than twice the fuel economy of the average new
vehicle sold in the U.S. With gas going for $1.60 a gallon in my
neighborhood, that's a savings of $671 a year. Plus, with a
13-gallon tank, pit stops come every 600 miles.  This car makes
it easy to be green. The Civic Hybrid, which hit showrooms on
Apr. 1, looks and drives like a Civic, and except for the faint
whine of the electric motor, it sounds like a Civic. Unlike
electrics, you don't have to plug it in to recharge it every
night, and you won't be strande