2010 Honda Insight already a hit in Japan

The sale of the Honda Insight in Japan has been soaring at 200% above its monthly target. With a price of 1.89 million ($20,600) Yen in Japan makes the Insight the least expensive hybrid car on sale, being justifiably economical even when fuel costs are fairly low, helping it to succeed where others met with nothing but failure.

This provides a great possibility that a US spec Insight is in view, provided that its success in Japan filters over to America.The initial sales number is not expected to be large considering the economic condition of the US. If the Insight went on sale before the economic downturn, it would have been a hot-seller. However, the tremendous success of the Insight in Japan is reason enough for the carmaker to look at the future of the Insight with optimism.
Read Article

fatandsassy - 2/18/2009 8:39:37 AM

+5 Boost

I really want the American Car Companies to suceed but this is a wonderful car for the money

DoctorC - 2/18/2009 8:40:14 AM

+2 Boost

By looking in the last actions of Honda and their results, i'm sure that after the current economic crisis they will reborn as a major leader in the car industry.

veyron1001 - 2/18/2009 9:35:59 AM

+4 Boost

So where is this Volt I hear of? O yea still not in production and will cost twice as much when it comes out.

holmstar - 2/18/2009 11:17:27 AM

+1 Boost

it is also very much different than the insight. The volt is the first mass market series hybrid. It is on the bleeding edge, and like all bleeding edge technology, it is expensive. The insight is just one of many parallel hybrids, and nowhere near being the first... thus it benefits from previous experience with parallel hybrid technologies and is much cheaper.

_43LE - 2/18/2009 11:43:36 AM

0 Boost

1UAW, that would seem to make sense but why are the luxury car sales champs in Japan the Germans, not the Japanese makes?