From Ugly Betty to Jessica Alba – the 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid

Old Insight vs New InsightHonda's first attempt had great success in the hypermiling circles; but the mainstream was none to eager to drive such a repulsive looking vehicle.  But wonderful fuel savings lessons were learned and Honda might have hit a home run with the 2nd generation Insight.

The next chapter in the evolution of hybrid technology has been written with the new 2010 Honda Insight.  In developing cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicle technology and developing advanced alternatives in gasoline, no one is a more accomplished than Honda. Among these accomplishments, Honda is also a leader in the development of zero-emission, hydrogen-powered cars like the FCX Clarity fuel cell car. The new Honda Insight is also a huge triumph that should be added to that list. This new Honda Insight was first debuted on Jan. 1st 2009 and amazed everyone with all its extra features and consumer appeal; its Integrated Motor Assist hybrid technology and more cost-efficient production method.

The new Honda Insight provides environmentally-conscious hybrid customers with new affordability, better performance, and a highway fuel economy rating of 40/43 miles per gallon. [Read more...]

Hybrid Car Sale Causes People to Lose Minds!

carpool-lane-stickerWatch a used hybrid sale is like watching those crazy “Brides to Be” fight over Wedding Dresses at the year-end sale.  Why all the drama for a used Civic Hybrid? Well it’s that Little Yellow CARB Sticker that causes people to go completely insane!

Life is good when you’re flying by those peons stuck in Southern California traffic!  Want to become the envy of working-class drones everywhere? Well it is pretty impossible these days unless you have connections.   I mean, only 60k of these stickers were passed out by the lovely California gov.  Now they are all kaput!

There are only 2 ways to get a car pool lane sticker.

  1. Contact your local shady guy.  He will go on the black market and buy one. Then sell it to you at double the agreed upon price.
  2. Buy a car with a little yellow car pool sticker on it already.

So really, do you want a Civic or a Prius; because that’s your only choices.  Actually you can get an Old Skool Insight.  Good Luck!  Or you could buy a car that runs on Compressed Natural Gas or GNG.  But those exploded every 10k miles.

So bite the bullet, knock a few “Brides to Be” out, then buy a Honda Certified Hybrid.

A town like Los Angeles has the traffic as emotionally painful as waterboarding.  So do yourself a favor and grab a hybrid.