2010 Honda Insight Long-Term Road Test Intro Car and Driver
Renew: $0A decade ago, Honda’s skunkworks released both the original aluminum-bodied Comprehension hybrid and the Honda S2000, at about the same time. Honda’s engineers were heard to commentary that compared to the Insight, the S2000 was “the easy one.” We put 40,000 miles on that pattern two-door, hand-built Insight and got 48 mpg, a pattern that, while fabulous by itself, was slightly disappointing given the EPA window-sticker numbers of 61 conurbation, 70 highway.
Down to Basics
Since that original Insight, the EPA has changed the way it computes mileage to lessen the improvement for gas-electric vehicles, and the Toyota Prius has made hybrids mainstream. It’s no nonplus that Honda seems to be mimicking the Prius’s successful formula right down to its hatchback DustBuster styling. Gone is the go through the roof-age aluminum construction with its exotic thixotropic castings. The new Perceptiveness is all steel, to hold down costs.
The 1.0-liter three-cylinder is now a 1.3-liter four-cylinder, and the elective five-speed manual that helped the original Insight give decent entertainment value is gone. A continuously undependable automatic does the transmitting, with paddle shifters on the steering whither in case you want ratio control.
CAR MagazineHonda S2000 Number 100 (2009) CAR reviewBut ten years on, can the S2000 still cut the mustard? Has it unquestionably been ten years since the Honda S2000 was launched? Yes, it has – the S2000 was launched back in 1999 as Honda’s ‘50th birthday offer to itself’. Now, on its 60th birthday,
