Europeans Get Fresh Insight Into Honda Insight
Carscoop! is breaking European brochure pics of the 2009 Insight, Honda’s rival to the Toyota Prius, the gas – electric hyrbid that’s gone from hero to zero [percent financing] in less than six months. Coincidentally enough (if only just), the Priusalike makes its appearance a few days before the denuded Detroit Auto Show (“ Now with 100 percent less Nissan“). That’s where the 2010 Prius also makes its debut. Unfortunately, we only get the pics from Honda brochure; the text would have provided welcome insight into the Insight’s marketing angle. Will HoMoCo promote the Insight on price or performance? The green hot rod angle is not entirely inconceivable; the now extinct Accord hybrid was the fastest of its breed. Carscoop! has three pictures of the Insight’s speedo; at 20, 24 and 42mph. So, no, then.
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They should have added some cues from the svelte FCX Clarity, instead of using tracing paper over a Prius and adding some horizontal headlamps and a different grille. The Prius is much more handsome now that it ditched the dopey vertical headlamps that gave it a sort of smiley face when combined with the slit of an eggcrate grille it had. And the new Prius has a cool looking cockpit that clearly divides the passenger and driver's sides. The original Insight was so mind blowingly different to all other cars that this Prius wannabe shouldn't carry the Insight moniker. Seeing how it copies the previous-gen Prius, it should logically be called the Hindsight.
Ya, what happened to the Clarity? This thing really is a prius clone.