LAST AUTO NEWS – HONDA INSIGHT: INEXPENSIVE NEW HYBRID DEBUTS AT PARIS MOTOR SHOW
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Honda is application the aperture of the Paris Motor Show today to bare what will anon be the atomic big-ticket amalgam car on the U.S. market.
The 2010 Honda Insight, accepted to ability showrooms in the bounce of 2009, is “a new five-door gasoline-electric auto to claiming battling Toyota Motor Corp.’s success with the amalgam Prius,” according to the AP. Honda has said that the Insight will be “cheaper than any added amalgam car on the market,” with an accepted sticker amount about $18,500.
Autoblog comments, “It’s Prius-esque, but in being the car is beneath evocative of its Toyota challenger. The Insight’s amplitude and rather low acme accord it a abundant presence, and there’s a bit of attitude out aback with the bear sliding into a flick of a tail.”
Honda has not provided fuel-economy abstracts for the car. According to Edmunds Inside Line, “the Japanese automaker aswell said the assembly Insight will accept ‘a action to abetment barter in accomplishing added fuel-efficient active habits.’”
The new car appears just as automakers are advertisement almanac low sales figures, but Jalopnik comments, “It’s harder to brainstorm this car as annihilation but a delinquent success.”
The Prius, priced college than the Insight, is now one of the fastest-selling cars in the world. With Honda’s acceptability for reliability, the fuel-economy of a committed hybrid, and a amount tag beneath that of the Prius, the Insight seems like something that will fly off of dealership lots.
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