Honda Tries to Make The Third Time A Charm With Insight Hybrid Concept

Sitting at the summit of the Honda vehicle range is the Acura NSX — a complex, advanced hybrid two-seater that goes like stink but can’t seem to find many takers. At the bottom, at least until 2014 models dried up sometime in 2015, was the Insight.

Ah, the Insight. The model best remembered as the teardrop-shaped two-seater that gave North America its first taste of hybrid motoring in December 1999 was soon eclipsed in sales by the Toyota Prius. Its main rival never looked back.

After a four-year gap, a second-generation Insight powered back onto the hybrid scene for the 2010 model year. Boasting room for five passengers and a significantly lower fuel economy rating, the follow-up Insight didn’t sent Honda’s sales charts aflame. Volume in 2010 was one-seventh that of the Prius, dropping quickly thereafter.

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MDarringer - 12/19/2017 6:28:46 PM

+2 Boost

That's clearly what it is.

skytop - 12/19/2017 1:15:31 PM

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Any company that shows its car in the dark is suspect.

cidflekken - 12/19/2017 3:24:07 PM

+5 Boost

Basically, a slightly modified Civic and named Insight? Why not just a Civic hybrid?

MDarringer - 12/20/2017 8:29:56 AM

-1 Boost

NO NO NO
Cidflekken, can't you see anything?????
This is TOTALLY different.
Like OMG so TOTALLY different.
A Civic with a hybrid would just be a Civic Hybrid.
BUT a Civic with a hybrid is an....INSIGHT!!!!
Get it now?

MDarringer - 12/20/2017 4:24:48 PM

-1 Boost

Like the village idiot minus 50 IQ points is fiftysix.

hdbu - 12/19/2017 8:54:36 PM

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https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/honda-teases-insight-prototype-by-showing-off-the-whole-thing/

MrEE - 12/20/2017 10:35:40 AM

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If not, it should be the Civic mid-model updated. Brings Accord lines and front end to Civic, along with improved infotainment console. Fixes the quirky illumination pattern of rear taillights and likely fixes the poorly rated headlights. The hybrid shifter and rear plate means likely will be called Insight over Hybrid Civic.