Honda Insight
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4 model years with exact configuration records. Latest available year: 2022, with 2 listed configurations.
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The third-generation Honda Insight is a compact four-door hybrid sedan sold in the United States for the 2019 through 2022 model years. Where the first two Insights were oddly shaped liftbacks that advertised their efficiency, this one deliberately looks like an ordinary car: it is built on the tenth-generation Civic platform, shares that car's interior architecture and its Greensburg, Indiana assembly line, and stretches about an inch longer than a Civic sedan. Honda positioned it just below the mid-size Accord Hybrid as its dedicated high-mileage model and a direct answer to the Toyota Prius.
Every Insight uses Honda's two-motor Sport Hybrid i-MMD system: a 1.5-liter Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder paired with a 129-hp AC permanent-magnet traction motor and a compact 1.2 kWh lithium-ion pack. There is no conventional gearbox — the electric motor drives the front wheels almost all the time and the gasoline engine usually acts as a generator, clutching in directly only at higher cruising speeds. Combined system output is 151 hp, and because the battery sits under the rear seat rather than in the trunk, the Insight keeps essentially the same cargo hold as a Civic sedan.
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