2011 Honda Insight Hybrid price

2011 Honda Insight Hybrid

Features: The 2011 Honda Insight should repeat the 2010 model’s three trim levels: base LX, better-equipped EX, and top-line EX with a navigation system. Each comes with air conditioning, power windows, locks, and mirrors, a tilt-telescope steering wheel, a height adjustable driver’s seat, and 60/40 split/folding rear seatbacks. Head-protecting curtain side airbags also are standard, as are antilock brakes. The EX models add an antiskid system. Insight asserts its hybrid-ness with Honda’s Ecological Drive Assist System — Eco Assist, for short. It rewards fuel-efficient driving with green dashboard lighting and transitions to blue if you use more gas than necessary. You earn digital plant leaves for good behavior, and can press an “Econ” dashboard button to dial back the air conditioning and recalibrate the throttle to save even more gas. The only tire size is a modest 175/65R15 and the tread is a low-rolling-resistance compound to aid fuel efficiency. The Insight’s dashboard design enhances the sense you’re driving a car with an alternative-fuel powertrain. It’s futuristic without being gimmicky; even the green-to-blue color change is thoughtfully integrated, and the shape and placement of the controls shows original thinking and sound ergonomics. Interior materials are solid and feel slightly richer than Insight’s pricing might imply.