A factory-modified model

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Flora Tang  #563305  Sun, 07 Sep 08 03:49 AM

For example:A year ago, faced with a 116-mile round-trip commute to his office in Southern California and a $100 weekly gasoline bill, O’Dell switched from a Subaru Outback to the Honda Civic GX, a factory-modified model that runs exclusively on natural gas.

What  does "factory-modified" mean?

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Avangi  #563307  Sun, 07 Sep 08 04:22 AM
Many people make a business of taking stock cars from the assembly line and customizing them.  But one which is factory-modified would be a special edition or one-of-a-kind vehicle built by the original manufacturer, in this case, Honda.  I don't know if the Civic GX is what they're referring to.  I have a Civic Si which has a racing package. You could say it's modified from the standard Civic.  But I believe it's still considered a stock car.  I think the same is true of the GX.  I think they make a lot of them.

I believe your excerpt refers to a GX which has been further modified at the factory to run on LNG.  They may have produced only one of these factory-modified versions, or they may have produced a thousand.

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