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2011 Honda Insight gets suspension changes in EU, U.S. to follow?

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by cwerdna, Jul 20, 2010.

  1. cwerdna

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    2011 Honda Insight gets suspension changes in EU, U.S. to follow? — Autoblog Green

    From the Honda UK press release:
    Interesting... I wonder if this means the end of the HCH? Before, you couldn't get leather on the Insight at all and you had to go to the HCH. With the Insight cannibalizing the HCH's sales, it seems there's even less of a reason for the latter to exist.

    From http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2010/07/01/485384.html, only 595 HCHs were sold in the US last month vs. 1491 Insights vs. 10998 Priuses (http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/document/June_Sales_Chart.pdf).
     
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    The HCH needs to have the batteries some place so at least some of the rear seat could fold down. Then they would have a small, sedan style vehicle that could take oversized loads.
    It looks like the transition happened in May 2009 when the Insight overtook the Civic:
    May 2009 Dashboard: Hybrids Bouncing Back | Hybrid Cars

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