Honda Insight Hybrid
Honda
officials here pitched Insight as a clever, handy, affordable small car
that just happens to use hybrid technology for good fuel economy. It's
a complete gas-electric hybrid system, not a so-called mild hybrid, but
scaled down from the similar setup in the Civic hybrid (Test Drive,
Jan. 9), so it doesn't perform as well.
Expect Insight to be rated 40 mpg city, 43 highway, 41 combined. Civic hybrid's rated 40/45/42.
It's
hard to call 40 mpg disappointing, but in this case it is. The smaller,
lighter Insight, using a smaller-displacement gasoline engine, seems to
be an underachiever. Honda says that's partly because Insight's tuned
for a little more punch, to make driving more fun, at the expense of
fuel economy.
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- May 14 Thu 2009 22:05
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