2010 Honda Insight vs. 2010 Toyota Prius, 1998 Chevy Metro - Car and Driver (blog)
What we have here is an official C/D comparison test in which the photo vehicle, a Honda Pilot , proved far quicker than any of our contestants. These cars make you feel guilty about eating red meat. Both hybrids here are brand-new, if not all-new. The Honda Insight , which made its debut in 1999, has undergone the most radical transformation, gaining one cylinder, 25 horsepower, a back seat, and a shape that no longer resembles a tadpole in a spandex body wrap. In fact, what the Insight looks like is the Prius but with a smiling-fish grille instead of the Toyota’s frowning-fish grille. The route led us from Ann Arbor through Columbus and ultimately to the southern Ohio towns of Knockemstiff and Tranquility via a side trip to Serpent Mound, a six-foot-tall earthen replica of a huge snake that was either produced by Native... There were no driving rules. Indeed, that was the whole point of this test—to drive these things the way we’d drive regular cars. The regular-car control group was represented here by a 1998 Chevrolet Metro, and it was exceedingly regular. Funny that both hybrids’ consumption computers were optimistic—the Prius’s by 4 mpg, the Insight’s by 3 mpg. Source: www.caranddriver.com
