Finding the chase and cutting to it

The new Honda Insight is a clever hybrid offering low tax costs and high fuel efficiency and lower emissions.

My first bike, better fuel efficiency than a Honda Insight and same tax group. Slightly less room for luggage and passengers though 🙂

And I’m really disappointed.  It’s a pretty car, enough room for four people and the same tax band as a 125cc motorbike (that’s £15 to you and me) but to be honest I can’t see me ever getting one.

Which is a shame really.  I drive or ride a 30 mile round trip during the week.  It’s mostly on dual carriage way and takes me about 25-35 minutes on a normal day.  If I used the Insight for this journey it would engage the electric motor for a whole 6 minutes.

At work, there are electric power sockets which, with the Insight I can’t make use of and the car is between £15-19K with a tiny boot.  It’s just not worth the expense for me.

And the tech isn’t that new – a good small engined car with a fibre glass body would be a much better option environmentally speaking and easier to maintain.  (Oh dear, I’ve just described a Smart car! Seriously though..)

So I wish Honda had spent the launch money on this car on pairing up with a fuel distributor in the UK and brought over it’s Califonian launched FCX Clarity used.  Given the current situation, I think that would have been a worth while thing to do rather than a car which isn’t actually very useful and is going to be out of date in five years.

I should say I didn’t test drive the Insight and it did look very nice.  Just not better or more environmentally better than a second hand diesel or small, light petrol driven car.