It's small, it's a hatchback, and it looks like a spaceship.
I may very well have to consider this an option...
It's a hybrid, and in fact is the most fuel-efficient car in America at 66 miles per gallon.
That is so totally cool...but it means the price is about $8000 more than I was wanting to spend. Eep.
I'm also a little concerned about the rear wheels. What happens if I get a flat tire? How high, exactly, would I have to jack it up? :>
But the design is awesome. Other hybrids are just kind of blah. The Civic, meh. The Accord just looks like a regular car...plus it's like $30,000. The Camry is the same way, though $5000 less. The Prius looks like a Star Trek: TNG shuttlecraft, and not in a good way.
This is by far the coolest hybrid (that I've seen), and it's competing with the Yaris in my mind for coolest car period.
[Update 9:56 p.m.:] I just realized that it doesn't have a backseat. Like, at all. So I don't know. I haven't used the backseat of my Subaru (for people, anyway) in years...but it's still nice to know that if I had to, I could cart three other people somewhere. So the Yaris is probably still winning.
...plus, the Insight looks a little doofy in this picture.
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It also looks doofy IN REAL LIFE.
haha :D All righty then.
If the car really had "insight" shouldn't it have back seats? I mean, come on, what's the use of having 66 mpg if you only use it for 2 peeps at most (3 I suppose if you throw one in the trunk)? At least I give the polar opposite car (the Hummer) that. Sure, it's only like 8 mpg, but at least you can fit quite a few peeps comfortably in there.
Yeah, that's a good point; how does the Insight help people carpool? :>
I heard someone has developed a car that runs entirely on lithium batteries. That would be cool, as long as it could seat 5 like the Yaris. And as long as it was cute like the Yaris.
I think I'll just get a Yaris, though.
I'd like to be long-sighted and buy a car that will survive the transition from a gasoline-fueled economy to whatever replaces it, but I'm not sure it's possible to make the right decision yet.
And besides, all the options are either ugly or stupid :(
(Does anyone know of any awesome-looking, small, hybrid or alternate fuel cars?)
I hate the way it squashes a little red robot thing then drinks up its vital fluids
What were they thinkingn,.,,,???
M
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