Honda Insight Hybrid

Exclusive Zeus makes the Honda Insight a little more appealing

Posted: Jul 30, 2009

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Honda, Tuner Cars

Not impressed by the sportiness of your Honda Insight hybrid? Well, let Japan’s Exclusive Zeus help you out. The Japanese tuner is offering a body kit for the Insight that offers a lowered suspension, a new front apron, side skirts, a blacked out grille, a new rear apron and a diffuser.
You also get a set of [...]

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Honda fast-tracking upgrades to the 2010 Insight

Posted: Jul 22, 2009

Filed under: Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

When the 2010 Honda Insight went on sale in Japan and in the U.S., the model was off to a very strong start – almost, scaring the pants off of Toyota and their third-generation Prius. However, things have started going downhill for the Insight after that. Honda had hoped to sell 90,000 units of the [...]

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Honda may miss U.S. sales target for the 2010 Honda Insight

Posted: Jun 15, 2009

Filed under: Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

We’ve been hearing all good things about the 2010 Honda Insight hybrid – it’s cheaper than the 2010 Toyota Prius, was the best-selling vehicle in Japan in April and Honda even considered increasing output for the United States market. However, according to American Honda Motor Executive Vice President John Mendel, Honda may fall short of [...]

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Bring it on Honda Insight: 2010 Toyota Prius was Japan’s best-selling car in May

Posted: Jun 04, 2009

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Toyota

Toyota spent most of February tossing and turning in its sleep over competition from the new 2010 Honda Insight. Honda’s new hybrid was the best-selling model in Japan in April; marking the first time a hybrid has held the spot for a monthly sales period. Well, Toyota can now sleep peacefully at night.
For the month [...]

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Honda CR-Z Hybrid will be followed by Fit Hybrid in autumn 2010

Posted: May 27, 2009

Filed under: Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Toyota

The 2010 Honda Insight is the first of four gasoline-electric hybrids Honda has planned to bring to the roads by 2012. Early next year, Honda will unveil the production version of the much-anticipated CR-Z sports hybrid. That will be followed by a hybrid version of the Fit and the next-generation Civic Hybrid.
According to Japan’s Nikkei [...]

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Jeremy Clarkson on the Honda Insight: It’s Biblically terrible

Posted: May 18, 2009

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Honda, Hybrids, Green News

So for what you’ve read about the Honda Insight is all bells and whistles about the hybrids fuel-economy and its ability to tell you how “green” you’re driving. However, rarely has any journalist commented on what the 2010 Honda Insight is like as a car that moves you from point A to point B – [...]

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Honda Insight becomes best-selling vehicle in Japan

Posted: May 11, 2009

Filed under: Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News

The 2010 Honda Insight hybrid, which went on sale in Japan on February 6, has been ranked the industry’s best-selling new car in Japan for the month of April. Honda sold a total of 10,481 units of the Insight, making it the first time a hybrid model has held the spot in Japan for a [...]

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Fukui: Honda Insight will not enter price-war with Prius, new hybrid system for larger cars coming

Posted: Apr 04, 2009

Filed under: Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Industry News, Toyota

Just two days ago, it was reported that Toyota will lower the price of the 2010 Prius in Japan to make the hybrid more competitive with the 2010 Honda Insight. Today, Honda’s CEO Takeo Fukui said that he will not lower the price on Insight anymore.
“I don’t think that would be meaningful to do so,” [...]

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2010 Toyota Prius to be priced competitively with the 2010 Honda Insight

Posted: Apr 02, 2009

Filed under: 2010 Releases, Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Toyota

Toyota has notified its Japanese dealers that it will price the new 2010 Toyota price at 2.05 million yen ($20,750 USD) which is right on par with the new 2010 Honda Insight. The move is Toyota’s latest response in the hybrid war between the Prius and Honda Insight.
Still, that might not be enough to entice treehuggers [...]

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Video: Honda Insight ‘Let it Shine’ TV ad

Posted: Mar 27, 2009

Filed under: Honda, Hybrids, Green News, Videos

Honda is gearing up for the launch of the Insight hybrid in international markets and has released a new TV ad called “Let it Shine’ to support the hybrid’s launch in Europe and the U.S. next month.
Honda gathered up some skilled geeks to create what appears to be the world’s largest LED screen with car [...]