LAST AUTO NEWS – HYBRIDS PREPARE FOR BATTLE
Last Auto account – Hybrids adapt for action Toyota's adapted Prius faces off with all-new Honda Insight
Two blooming machines admission at this week’s Detroit Motor Show – and their animosity looks set to be one of the better of the year!
Honda’s all-new Insight hybrid, which we’ve apprenticed on Page 26, is traveling head-to-head with the adapted Toyota Prius – and Auto Express has the official data of both models.
The revised Prius has a new face, while the contour has been adapted to abate drag. Other changes cover a added bunched powertrain, which gives greater amplitude for occupants and luggage.
A 1.8-litre petrol engine replaces the old 1.5, and it will plan with a added able nickel-hydride array pack. As a result, the new car promises 75mpg and sub-100g/km CO2 emissions.
All this technology hasn’t added the Prius’s account price, however. If the new car arrives in October, it will amount £18,225 – the aforementioned as the absolute model.
Meanwhile, the new Insight is a abolitionist abandonment from the antecedent car. This time it has four doors rather than two, and 5 seats. It’s aswell set to be the cheapest amalgam of its affectionate if it goes on auction in March. In actuality at £14,995, it undercuts the Prius by added than £3,000.
Honda promises that the Insight will be the aboriginal petrol-electric archetypal to able the ancestors car bazaar currently bedeviled by Ford’s Focus and the VW Golf.
Powering the Insight is a 1.3-litre petrol assemblage and a 13bhp electric motor, which accord a accumulated achievement of 98bhp and 167Nm of torque. Emissions will be college than the Prius at 101g/km, and it will acknowledgment about 64mpg.
Honda has aswell appear that the Insight is the aboriginal of a amount of hybrids. Next up is the CR-Z sports car, which will again be followed by a petrol-electric Jazz supermini.
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