Comments on: Honda Back to Hybrid Drawing Board

By: thomatt12

thomatt12 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:17:15 +0000

This car looks pretty cool! It looks way cooler than those other hybrid concepts!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:21:45 +0000

Me, too! This car looks pretty awesome and it in no way should have taken this long to come up with a two-door hybrid that says “Love me, buy me, drive me!’”. All the manufacturers should take note, that if you want to sell cars: they all should have two-door hybrids for us to buy: mitsubishi eclipse should be a hybrid, Hyundai Tburon should be a hybrid, Toyota Prius should have come in a 2-door version long ago as well as the Chevy Cobalt which comes in 5 different versions thus far. I drive Valet every day and the excuses are thin and none why the manufacturers shouldn’t buckle down and mass produce what the public wants. Four-door sedans, SUV’s and trucks are what some of the public wants but there are a lot of people who want and drive the 2-door sports coupe as a good-lucking, economical vehicle so guess what manufacturers, you have been served! Step up to the plate and watch us all come buy a good-looking hybrid!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:45:16 +0000

I have been thinking about buying a hybrid for a while but the lack of options has kept me away. I really like the look of the new Honda Concept and hope they will provide a full aray of cool options that are found in standard cars. Do that, I will be the first in line!!

By: paul

paul — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:14:19 +0000

Aight Chun, you are DREAMING, first of all, I highly doubt you NEED a minivn, since most families buy them out of utility rathar than practicality. How bout you just go buy a prius or something, I doubt your kid requires the DVD/TV mounted on the ceiling, unless that’s how you want to raise your children….. Minivans won’t (especially something in the 200hp range) get anything decent for gas mileage, one who drives a minivan does not even deserve to get good gas mileage.

By: Chun

Chun — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:06:23 +0000

Honda blew it by tying a V6 to the Accord Hybrid while failing to offer a 4-cyl. engine as an option. Now they want to do the roadster thing. Nobody who buys and drives a roadster cares that much about fuel economy. 27 to 30 mpg is easily achieved today, even with all-gas engines. My SLK230 Kompressor gets 27mpg on the highway and delivers 190HP of performance. More than enough for a California highway. The problem is that I can't drive my kids around in the SLK.

Honda, you want some direction? How about a hybrid minivan instead of the roadster? My 2000 Odyssey only gets 18mpg and I drive it ALL the time because I have to play soccer-parent. My gasoline bill is a little over $1000 a month (teenager gets the Accord). Give my wallet a break come out SOON with a minivan with a similar power feel(200-240hp range, good bottom-end torque) and delivers 40 or better mpg on the highway. I have 150,000+ miles on the Odyssey and am ready to trade it in for whoever has better mileage (either Honda or Toyota at this point; preference: Honda if available).

By: paul

paul — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:59:55 +0000

First of all, Cars are constantly being green-ified, which means that there are more emission controls on the cars... which (life a muffler) give the cars backflow. So if all the emissions controls were taken off of a prius, the engine would run less stresses and give you a better fuel economy.

Secondly, the EPA has hardening up on the way MPG's are calcualted by the auto maker. Even Honda and Toyota were guilty of lying a bit on their fuel ratings. For instance, they may have run this Civic HB VX on a perfectly flat scenario with low-dra tires, no air-intake filter, with all the interior ripped out, and a tailwaind.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:18:00 +0000

Why doesn’t Honda sell this non hybrid car anymore?
According to http://www.fueleconomy.gov
two Civic’s HB VX listed for 1994 and 1995 with mpg(city)39/37 and mpg(hwy)50/45.Since these aren’t Hybrids,What the Hell is going on?

By: paul

paul — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:43:09 +0000

I don’t know about you all, but I like having more passanger capacity than a 2 seater. If the insight has a back seat it would have sold much better. A 2seater is really a toy, a second vehicle. Name one practical car that only sat 2 people. I can name a trillion toy cars…. s200, miata, sc430, 350z, corvette, mr2…… normal everyday people dont own cars like that. The kind of people who own the listed cars usually have a sedan in the garage. The concept will sell if the coupe has a backseat…….

By: omn1potent

omn1potent — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:41:13 +0000

The Honda Insight Sold new in Australia for AUS $50k, hence why it only sold 50 units, in its 5 years of sale here. If it was sold at a resonable price, it would have been a success. Lets hope Honda don’t do that again!

By: Old Man Crowder

Old Man Crowder — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:32:27 +0000

And apparently I’m dyslexic, too. I mixed up the name and subject lines.