No, your stupid Chevy Avalanche you bought instead of a sedan isn't sexy or practical.
The Insight is the most perfect commuter car I've ever seen and extremely practical for commuting. That's what it was made for, and that's what it excels at. Just because you drive an impractical vehicle daily for the 1% case where you decide to tow a boat trailer while carrying 5 people doesn't mean people who buy theirs to fit 99% of trips impractical, it just makes you dumb.
Don't like this author much. Most of the reasoning in the article is pretty weak.
More often than not, during those rare fillups, someone walks over, drives by and shouts out the window, or otherwise engages me in conversation about my Insight. Valet parkers love it. People put "nice car!" notes under my wiper when parked. Even little kids (who shouldn't really know, right?) stare and point, or yell, mouth agape, as I drive by. I have never ever ever had a car (that wasn't on fire) that drew as much attention as this one, so the future or potential collectibility factor, to me, is inevitable, as interest in this little spaceship remains justifiably high. Good call by PM...
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Driving on down the road in my 2001 CVT, going "Boogety Boogety" ...and until avatars are provided, my car looks just like the original silver Insight on the header, above... =)
Hey now, be careful. I have a 2002 Chevy Avalanche and a 2001 Insight. The Insight gets great mileage, was cheap and should last a long time. With the Insight (CVT) I got 4 tanks this summer over 77 MPG, and over 725 miles to the tank, my worst tank last winter was 59.57 MPG. The cost per mile is real cheap. The best tank I ever got with the Avalanche was 19.91 MPG, 535 miles. My average for the Avalanche over 100K miles is 15.2 MPG. The Avalanche costs a lot per mile to drive. I use the Avalanche in the snow, to haul things, and to hold my family (wife and two kids). Currently my 16 year old son drives the Avalanche, significant snow accumulations and he takes the bus to school and the Insight sits in the garage. In minor snow the Insight has a difficult time from a dead stop, spins the wheels easily, but otherwise is ok. I can't imaging driving the Insight in 8 inches of snow.....
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2001 Red CVT
19,351 miles lmpg 19.0 as of Oct 7, 2011
Best tank 78.9 MPG, 738.9 miles
Email dave@groe.us
Hey now, be careful. I have a 2002 Chevy Avalanche and a 2001 Insight. The Insight gets great mileage, was cheap and should last a long time. With the Insight (CVT) I got 4 tanks this summer over 77 MPG, and over 725 miles to the tank, my worst tank last winter was 59.57 MPG. The cost per mile is real cheap. The best tank I ever got with the Avalanche was 19.91 MPG, 535 miles. My average for the Avalanche over 100K miles is 15.2 MPG. The Avalanche costs a lot per mile to drive. I use the Avalanche in the snow, to haul things, and to hold my family (wife and two kids). Currently my 16 year old son drives the Avalanche, significant snow accumulations and he takes the bus to school and the Insight sits in the garage. In minor snow the Insight has a difficult time from a dead stop, spins the wheels easily, but otherwise is ok. I can't imaging driving the Insight in 8 inches of snow.....
Sorry if I came off as harsh, I was thinking of a particular person I know who bought one as their only vehicle, never uses it for any "truck things" (we all know a truck doesn't stay pristine when it's actually used.. my work truck is a Ram 2500), and constantly bellyaches about gas prices and how it's Obama's conspiracy to make us all drive eco-weenie-mobiles.
My dad had one of these: http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2012/10/...ickup-7711162/
1972.5 with a 1.8L engine making 105 hp, a tough little frame, 2wd. He stacked everything we owned on the bed and in a trailer once and moved it... probably 5k lbs total (most on the trailer, but the rear wheels were down on the bump stops). Hauled our boat to the lake and back weekly, our house had nothing but a wood stove for heat so we filled it constantly with firewood. Bed full of 5 gallon pickle buckets full of clay? No problem. Had a nice spread of gears with a tall fifth and a bulldog low 1st. Now you have to buy something that gets at most 23 mpg (just looked it up, base Tacoma 2wd), but he got 32-34 on his truck. How do I know? He kept mileage logs in a book he still has . Rusted out so far it couldn't be used around 400k miles.
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article including the g1 insight
. Rusted out so far it couldn't be used around 400k miles.
