Mar 30
Written by: Aaron Turpen 368 views
Published on March 30th, 2009 in Electric Cars
The new Honda Insight hybrid became available in showrooms in the U.S. on Friday and Honda says that the handful available nationally now will become thousands in April.
We’ve talked about the Insight here before and it is currently the only real competition for Toyota’s Prius–and good competition at that. Despite sluggish car sales in America, the Insight is expected to do well–as it has in Japan so far–because of it’s low price tag (about $20,000USD) and high efficiency performance (well over 60mpg in real-world testing).
So if you’ve been waiting for an extremely efficient hybrid to hit the mainstream at a price that most people can afford, then here you go.
Tags: honda, Honda Hybrid, Honda Insight, honda insight hybrid, hybrid car, insight
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