'Much has been written about the Insight, Honda’s new low-priced hybrid. We’ve been told how much carbon dioxide it produces, how its dashboard encourages frugal driving by glowing green when you’re easy on the throttle and how it is the dawn of all things. The beginning of days.
So far, though, you have not been told what it’s like as a car; as a tool for moving you, your friends and your things from place to place.
So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.......'
Whilst Mr Clarkson might be an amusing chap, his quote "I have yet to be convinced that man’s 3% contribution to the planet’s greenhouse gases affects the climate" says it all really. It reminds me of Prof Wessely's views on the biological causes of ME.
ReplyDeleteThe Insight engine system is perhaps a little immature, but is in principle an important step in fuel efficiency, and the diesel equivalents promise over 100mpg on an urban cycle.