The cold snap has now been here for a week. The temperatures in the morning reaching -40 C my insight has been regularly doing better than 4.8l per 100km (i usually average 3.7)...which is not bad considering that on my 60km drive to work i have no IMA support for the first 15min until the car has warmed up sufficiently.
One small rant before i go...i think the thing that is punishing the insight is the fact that it displays the fuel consumption. Although i personally find this info really cool i heard a reporter during the Montreal auto show mentioning that on his drive with the insight he got 5.1l per 100k and that the 3.6 listed was therefore not achieved by this car, all the while mentioning that the 3.6 number is put forward by honda and that it was unrealistically optimistic(funny i thought they were EPA numbers).
Everybody here knows that the fuel comsumption on a car varies depending on how it is driven and that other vechicles would also not perform as well as their EPA numbers if driven by the bonehead reporter in the story. I rarely see good reports on the insight...it seems to be a blacksheep that car reviewers always have to put down. I shouldn't let these things get to me but in the last week i have had 6 co workers come up the me to and mention the above report at which point i show them the lifetime comsumption of the my insight (4.1l...79 000km) while pointing the fuel read out with my middle finger.
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One small rant before i go...i think the thing that is punishing the insight is the fact that it displays the fuel consumption. Although i personally find this info really cool i heard a reporter during the Montreal auto show mentioning that on his drive with the insight he got 5.1l per 100k and that the 3.6 listed was therefore not achieved by this car, all the while mentioning that the 3.6 number is put forward by honda and that it was unrealistically optimistic(funny i thought they were EPA numbers).
Everybody here knows that the fuel comsumption on a car varies depending on how it is driven and that other vechicles would also not perform as well as their EPA numbers if driven by the bonehead reporter in the story. I rarely see good reports on the insight...it seems to be a blacksheep that car reviewers always have to put down. I shouldn't let these things get to me but in the last week i have had 6 co workers come up the me to and mention the above report at which point i show them the lifetime comsumption of the my insight (4.1l...79 000km) while pointing the fuel read out with my middle finger.
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