Hi again. The Goldseal Garage have been trying to offload their imported Insights for months. If you go to them, you can & should properly haggle with them. You are right, generally speaking the Japanese vehicles are relatively low mileage, looked after and well specced (is that a word?). UK Dealers don't like them because you would have cut them out of the car buying process and are putting downward pressure on their used prices, nevertheless they are still happy (in a sulky way) to charge you top dollar for servicing. There are no manufacturer warranties on imported Insights (or any other imported car) and the expensive replacement item in the Insight is the IMA (Integrated Motor Assist) - the electrical hybrid parts. If the IMA battery fails then you are looking at an approximate £3,000 to £5,000 cost to replace it.
As I hinted at before, UK supplied Insights (rather than Japanese) should be better covered for this and previously it was thought that there was an 8yr/80,000mile IMA warranty (the same as the old USA warranty) but one of our members found this not to be true and the IMA is only covered by the standard 3yr/60,000 mile warranty. However apparently 2003 or younger UK Insights have the extended warranty (reflecting the 2002 amendments to the battery management software) and I suspect that if pushed hard enough Honda UK would contribute something to IMA replacement in UK supplied Insights. Perhaps.