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Ford Motor Co. considered avoiding the term when its gasoline-electric vehicle, the '04 HEV Escape, reaches the market. Program insiders tell Ward's the auto maker wondered whether the term was too closely associated with gas-electric vehicles already in showrooms, such as Honda Motor Co. Ltd.'s Civic Hybrid. The term also often is applied to describe vehicles in the cross/utility vehicle (CUV) segment.
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