The all-new 2010 Honda Insight amalgam car fabricated its apple admission at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. Utilizing the latest bearing of Honda's Integrated Motor Assist™ (IMA®) amalgam technology and new, added cost-efficient assembly methods, the 2010 Honda Insight defines a new date in the change of amalgam technology, accouterment amalgam barter with a new akin of affordability, fun-to-drive performance, and a U.S. EPA city/highway fuel-economy appraisement of 40/43 afar per gallon. The 2010 Honda Insight will be launched at Honda dealers throughout the United States in the alpha of April 2009 and will be priced beneath the Civic Hybrid.
"Honda hybrids accept consistently offered abundant value, aerial ammunition ability and a advantageous dosage of fun abreast the average amount ambit in the Honda lineup," said John Mendel, controlling carnality admiral of American Honda. "With the addition of the all-new Honda Insight, we're aperture up Honda's fun-to-drive, able and fuel-efficient amalgam technology to an absolutely new accumulation of buyers that ahead may not accept advised a amalgam because of either angel or cost."
Evoking the avant-garde and aerodynamic five-door auto architecture aboriginal deployed on the advocate Honda FCX Clarity ammunition corpuscle car, the new Honda Insight has a low centermost of force and a ample five-passenger cabin, alms the affectionate of alive acquaintance and roomy, able autogenous amplitude that barter accept appear to apprehend from Honda.
To advice Honda Insight owners apprehend the abounding allowances of Honda amalgam technology, the Insight will affection a new interactive, driver-focused ammunition abridgement accessory technology called the Ecological Drive Assist Arrangement (Eco Assist™). Eco Assist combines assorted functions:
* a driver-activated ECON approach that optimizes ascendancy of the continuously capricious automated manual (CVT), agent and accompanying powertrain apparatus to added advance agent ammunition efficiency;
* a disciplinarian acknowledgment action that uses an avant-garde speedometer affectation with alteration accomplishments colors to accommodate real-time advice to the disciplinarian on accomplishing college ammunition efficiency; and
* a altered fuel-economy scoring action application a plant-leaf clear to accommodate acknowledgment to the disciplinarian on current-trip alive ability and lifetime fuel-efficient alive performance.
All Insights are powered by an avant-garde 1.3-liter SOHC aluminum-alloy i-VTEC agent and CVT, forth with a new bearing of Honda's IMA amalgam arrangement for aberrant ammunition abridgement and fun-to-drive performance.
The Honda Insight's IMA arrangement incorporates a 10-kilowatt (13 hp) electric motor and a bunched Intelligent Ability Unit (IPU) - recapturing and autumn alive activity from agent braking and deceleration and bartering added ability for dispatch aback needed. Packaging of the ultra-compact IMA array and IPU in the vehicle's rear attic allows the added account of a 60/40 breach and fold-down rear bench back.
The Insight's IMA arrangement has the adequacy to accomplish alone on electric ability in assertive low- to mid-speed alive conditions. It additionally provides for butt deactivation aural the gasoline agent during deceleration and for agent shutoff aback the agent is stopped. With a 10.6-gallon ammunition tank, the Honda Insight delivers an estimated best alive ambit in balance of 400 miles.
Standard assurance appearance on all Insights accommodate dual-stage, dual-threshold advanced airbags; front-side airbags with a passenger-side Occupant Position Detection Arrangement (OPDS); ancillary blind airbag system; anti-lock brakes with cyberbanking anchor administration (EBD); driver- and front-passenger alive arch restraints and a advanced anatomy advised to abate banal injuries. All new Insights additionally affection Honda's Avant-garde Affinity Engineering™ (ACE™) anatomy structure, which provides bigger blast affinity amid cartage of altered admeasurement and ride height, acceptable aegis for Honda Insight occupants while abbreviation the abeyant for abrasion to occupants of the opposing agent in a aboveboard collision.
Additional accepted appearance on all new Insights accommodate 60/40 breach and fold-down rear seatbacks; two-tier agenda apparatus panels; automated altitude control; ability windows, mirrors and aperture locks; a angry and telescoping council caster and a 160-watt AM/FM/CD audio arrangement with MP3 audio playback, an abetting audio ascribe jack and Speed-Sensitive Volume Ascendancy (SVC).
Honda Insight EX models add admixture wheels, cruise control, 6-speaker audio arrangement with USB audio interface, steering-wheel army paddle shifters, Honda Agent Stability Assist™ (VSA®) and an accessible Honda Satellite-Linked Navigation System™ with Voice Recognition.
