Honda Insight is at a 768 day supply

http://thecarconnection.com/index.as...&sid=173&n=156

I bet depreciation on those is going to be huge.

 

going to be huge? It IS huge

Yea, those things have been selling horribley ever since 2001. From when I bought mine, in three months the car lost half its value I ended up being able to sell it for $14K to a dealership which was about $10K less than what I paid for it only a 15 months earlier. Right now there seems to be a wall around $12K thats hard for these cars to get under, but they get there quick.

 

Ooh, when they get to around $2-3000 I might get one to save gas on my commute. Too bad I can't stand the looks...

 

Did anyone notice that although Oldsmobile has been shut down for some time, there's still a 240 day supply of Auroras?

 

Thats to bad, its a great car for the most part, I almost bought a used one...But then I found my dream car..

 

Well what did Honda expect? Did they think the adoring public will rush out to buy an underpowered car that resebmles an insect?

 

They should have limited their marketing/sales to San Francisco and New York where all the environmentalist **** hippies live.

And Meccadeth...I can't believe you paid over 20K for one of those I don't know you but you seem to make a lot of sense in many of your replies that I've read. Even with state and federal rebates, they're not worth it considering the cheaper / better cars you can get for half the price.

I wouldn't mind having a hybrid...if I commuted over 50 miles every day.

 

Don't count on NY buying them, those little things would get crushed by the snow plows in winter. The "environmentalist **** hippies" here also love there Fullsize pickups and SUVs to be caught dead in a car that small. Come to think of it I don't think I've seen a Honda insight on the road since the first year they came out. Until reading this article I didn't think they made them anymore

 

The Honda Insight is what happens when progressive thinking gets out of hand so that practicality and excitement get tossed out the window.

However the new hyrid Accord and the older hybrid Civic are great, practical cars. If only someone would make hybrid that drives the right frigging set of wheels (hint, hint Honda - the ones out back, just as the God of automotive mechanics intended it), has 2 doors and muscle car looks!

Dream daily driver = 200?? Camaro... 3000 lb curb weight, V8 with direct fuel injection, cylinder deactivation, full VVT (camless computer controlled valve train with intake and exhaust events optimized accross entire RPM range for great power and low emissions) rated @ 350 / 350 HP/TQ (+100/100 HP/TQ from lightweight, ultra efficient (as much as motor / generator can be) 4th generation regenerative braking / electric motor assist) whilst knocking down 60+ mpg in mixed driving . Certified as a super ultra low emissions vehicle.

 

I remember seeing quite a few of them when I lived in the Washington D.C. area, and there I have seen a couple in RI...and the "environmentalist **** hippies" as one poster called them DO live elsewhere than SF and NY (I'm an environmentalist, and i have yet to go to SF

but as far as sales of the car go, give it a couple years, and then look again at who will be scrambling to get their alternative fuel cars to the market (GM), while the Japanese already have a stranglehold on the segment because they got in on the ground floor.

 

i was somewhat disappointed in the Civic hybrid and even moreso in the Accord hybrid. As I mentioned earlier, they just dont get much mpg to impress me, compared to smaller cars that cost nearly half as much.

And for the record, I consider myself an environmentalist also, but I think that the government is finding it easier to put restrictions on everyday citizens via car regulations than going after the real polluters, corporations. Oh, and please consider that I live in California, with all its smog laws...its really frustrating for me to hear of engine swaps and other mods online when i couldn't even register a car with a fraction of those modifications.

 

ROFLMAO. Perfect description!

 

Well it should have been a huge duh.

Name a hot selling two seat car that's NOT a sports car...

 

The reason it isn't selling is its utter lack of pracality. Most people need something bigger for a daily driver. People who want a weekend/nice day/special car want a sports car, not a penlty box.

 

Cali's problem isnt smog laws, its the byzantine way they go about doing them. If the car runs clean on the sniffer, who the hell cares whats under the hood.