Honda Insight

Honda Insight Review
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Introduction
Honda seems to have finally learned to play the hybrid game. Just do not cut by a hybrid engine in a normal car. When a car manufacturer wants to be taken seriously, it is better to offer a hybrid, such as what the market says it wants to look like a hybrid. And that, apparently, given the sales figures, it is a Toyota Prius. Therefore, the new Honda Insight practically a copy of the market leaders.

also seems to make the possibility of Take-no-big-market, however, the 2010 Honda Insight to manage a different drummer Mars does. E 'is smaller than the Prius, for example, not necessarily an advantage, and inner suffering. But it is easier is a plus, because less weight helps a rider to be a bit 'more alive.

In addition, there is usually the way with all the standard features and an optional navigation system and Bluetooth. It can also be paddle levers gadget that reports electronically created artificially construct seven be appointed to put the continuously variable automatic transmission.

Feature
• Introduction
• Lineup
• Walk Around
• Interior
• Driving Impressions
• Synthesis and characteristics
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When the new Honda Insight is measured relative to the starting generation 2009 Toyota Prius, purring in all cases a different tune. In other words, the Insight EPA-rated city / highway 40/43 miles per gallon significantly trails rated 48/45 mpg for the Prius. Honda seems to believe his humble believers willing to exchange a few miles per gallon for a car faster.

Perhaps most important change concerns the Honda hybrid is the competition on the market price. With the Insight, buyers now have two similar vehicles to choose from. 2010 Honda Insight $ 19,800 retail price slightly undermines the $ 21,000 MSRP for the new 2010 Toyota Prius. The first generation of Prius sold in 2009 for $ 23,375.

The 2010 Insight is a way: four-door, five passenger sedan. A drive system is available: a combination of a 1.3-liter 88 hp four-cylinder petrol and a line of 10 kilowatt, 13-hp, brushless DC motor. Power is only the front wheels through a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT). In two of the three models proposed above, the gear wheel to wheel and maintain a computer-generated seven-speed, manual transmission simulated. The base model uses a standard CVT is an efficient and competent.