2008 Honda Civic Tour Gives Fans the Chance to Hit the Pavement in Their Very Own Panic At The Disco-Customized Honda Civic Hybrid

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 The Honda Civic Tour is giving music lovers a shot at the ride of their lives by offering them a chance towin a Honda Civic Hybrid designed and autographed by the members of Honda Civic Tour ‘08 headlining act Panic At The Disco. Beginning Feb. 28, fans can enter to win this one-of-a-kind green machine by logging on to http://www.hondacivictour.com.
Concertgoers will be able to see the car for themselves, and register to win it via an electronic kiosk at each stop of the nationwide tour, which kicks off April 10 in San Francisco.

“Not every band gets the opportunity to customize their own car,” notes
PATD guitarist Ryan Ross, “which is just one of the reasons the Honda Civic
Tour is so cool. We spent a lot of time on the design to make sure it was
something our fans would be truly excited about. And this particular car is
a hybrid, so you really can’t go wrong there.”

Panic At The Disco will offer a preview of Honda Civic Tour ‘08 when
they perform on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” March 25 to coincide with the release
that day of their new album, Pretty. Odd. The tour has racked up sold-out
shows in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Orlando, with second
dates added in those cities. In addition to these locales, PATD and Honda
Civic Tour mates Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound and Phantom Planet
can be seen in East Rutherford, N.J., on May 4 as part of the Bamboozle
music festival. Also appearing at Bamboozle: that highly coveted
PATD-designed Civic Hybrid.

Panic At The Disco’s eccentric aesthetic sensibility has resulted in a
highly personalized reinvention of the car, making it the ultimate in fan
memorabilia. Of course, as the leader in hybrid technology, Honda has seen
to it that the Civic Hybrid gets an amazing EPA estimated 40 miles per
gallon city and 45 miles per gallon highway for a combined 42 miles per
gallon. The Civic Hybrid tricked out by PATD, meanwhile, comes with a
cavalcade of tasty enhancements, many contributing to the exterior design’s
environmentally aware “Surreal Earth” theme (realized by Santini USA and
DVS Designs with ALSA Corp Hawaiian Hues and Mystic paint and Candy
Concentrates, the latter providing maximum color impact).

Anyone lucky enough to open the door to this beauty will find a
custom-upholstered “time-machine” interior, with burgundy leather door
panels and armrests, diamond-patterned leather seats and luxe buttoned
headrests. The car’s headliner — the interior covering of the roof — has
been reconfigured in mocha suede and fitted with a clock that evokes Panic
At The Disco’s song “Nine in the Afternoon,” the first single off their
forthcoming album. If that weren’t enough, the door panels, dash and
floormats sport gold flourishes, and the windshield bears special accent
lights. Perhaps even cooler is the crystal knob topping the gear shift,
which has thus become the perfect device for transporting one back in time.

PATD’s masterpiece also features a factory stereo head unit with a
Honda Satellite-Linked Navigation System(TM) combined with Alpine
Electronics speakers, subwoofers and amplifiers; XM(R) Satellite Radio;
18-inch Konig Again racing-inspired rims with Dunlop Direzza DZ101 sport
tires; Eibach Springs lowering suspension; a Honda Factory Performance
(HFP) Aero Kit and Polished Exhaust Tip; and a Meguiar’s professional
car-care kit.

The desire to acquire this extraordinary work of vehicular art is
expected to reach a fever pitch by the deadline for entry into the
car-giveaway sweepstakes, July 31. (No purchase is necessary to enter;
entry is limited to legal residents of the 48 contiguous United States and
the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older.) Panic At The
Disco will surely be thrilled for the winner of “their” Honda Civic Hybrid,
but no one could blame them if they were also a little sad to see it go.

Honda began operations in the U.S. in 1959 with the establishment of
American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda’s first overseas subsidiary. Honda
now employs more than 35,000 associates in North America. Honda currently
has 14 manufacturing plants in North America, producing automobiles, light
trucks, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, personal watercraft, engines,
transmissions and other components. Nearly 8 of 10 Honda and Acura cars and
light trucks sold in America are assembled in North America as well. Many
of these products are now designed and developed at one of Honda’s U.S. R&D
centers. Honda annually purchases more than $17 billion in parts and
materials from suppliers in North America.

Produced by Marketing Factory, the Honda Civic Tour brings innovation
and environmental consciousness to the masses by combining the hottest in
automotive technology with the hottest in music.

Honda Civic Tour

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