more Edmunds comments on Insight (track testing and "hamster factor")

The video reminded me of how the steering wheel formed a narrow tunnel I had to peer through to see the instruments.

Bob Wilson

 

At the 1 second mark of the video the needles on the gauges indicated the accelerator being pressed, at the 16 second mark of the video the speedo read 60 miles per hour, is that 15 seconds 50% longer than the 10 seconds a Gen III Prius can hit 60mph in? I think so!
11 second more and it just hits 80mph, is this really a car you can drive onto a busy freeway in?

 

Honda Insight is a hybrid of bad reviews, bad sales
The Chicago Tribune -- When it debuted in March, Honda's retooled Insight hybrid looked to be the first serious challenger to the Prius, Toyota's ecological wunder-car. Graced with a low price, 40-m.p.g.-plus fuel economy and the Japanese automaker's reputation for quality, the Insight even looked like Prius.

Instead, all the Insight has delivered is a flurry of bad reviews and dismal sales capped by a battering at the hands of the Prius, whose third generation arrived in the U.S. in June.

"We're all pretty disappointed. We thought we had the next hit on our hands," said Don Marino, general manager of Honda of Santa Monica, Calif.

Americans bought 2,295 Insights in July, bringing total sales of the streamlined hatchback since March to 9,819, according to Autodata Corp.