2010 Prius, new Insight given the onceover by SoCal Honda dealers
Price war, price war, price war. By now, you're probably all pretty familiar with the battle that is brewing between the numbers that will grace the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius. Aside from the price, though, these two vehicles are different in size and handling and features. Honda dealers, at least those in Southern California, are getting a hands-on look at what those differences are. Green Car Advisor's Greg Johnson happened to see a parade of Insights and Priuses cruise down the street to where the dealers were learning about the new Insight, which goes on sale next week, and that tipped him off that the Prius is also part of their education. He asked around and found his hunch was right. Honda didn't say exactly what the dealers are being told, but you can trust that they'll be looking to move as many as possible before the Prius actually goes on sale later this spring.
[Source: Green Car Advisor]
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mike 6:13PM (3/20/2009)
How does honda get a hold of a bunch of pre-release toyota pri-i?
- mike
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Chris M 7:57PM (3/20/2009)
They didn't. From the tone of the article, I'd guess they were the older model Prius, which is what the new Insight will be compared to, until the 2010 Prius arrives later this year.
gorr 7:25PM (3/20/2009)
These cars use gasoline and are not green cars at all.
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Gordio 3:33AM (3/21/2009)
All cars use gasoline, except wind or solar power cars. Biodiesel needs gasoline, electricity needs gasoline, hydrogen DEFINITELY needs gasoline.
usbseawolf2000 9:27PM (3/20/2009)
Sales men being educated?
One can easily research on the internet to find that a fully loaded Insight is comparable to 09 Prius package #2. One has to wonder why "loaded" means so lacking.
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jharlan 9:31PM (3/20/2009)
Gorr, you are an environmental snob. These cars are doing a pretty good job, at a fairly reasonable price. With no infrastructure having been built yet for anything better, what are we supposed to be driving?
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gorr 9:50AM (3/21/2009)
Im supposed to buy a car powered by water. That's what toyota president writed for 1 day im their website 2 and a half years ago. I will not buy anymore difficicient technology car sold actually by the cars cartel that deconstructed tierd world contries with petrol mandate.
Toyota, gm, ford, mercedes, volks, etc, are just paid political entities that worth nothing.
Ask your local dealer for a water powered car. If they don't have some they will ask their compagny to build some to keep their jobs. If nobody ask for real green cars, then politicians, actual cars compagnies, madscientists around the world, journalists, wall streets traders, scool teachers, big-oil, local goverments, bloggers will insist that we destruct the remaining of the world including biology and humans.
Gordio 1:29PM (3/21/2009)
are you kidding me? water powered cars? Have you ever taken high school chemistry?
I am calling you out on toyota ever claiming to be making a water powered car. I am 100% positive that ever happened.
scammer-killer 3:09PM (3/21/2009)
Gorr is the reason this website needs posts to be pre-screened before posting.
I saw a local Chevy dealer purchase a Toyota Tundra to use as a head-to-head demonstrator on his lot. The purpose was to show how much better the Chevy truck was to his customers. The Chevy dealer attached multiple chains from the tow hitches of each truck to each other and them had salesmen "floor it" to see what would happen.
After watching the GM product get drug all around the parking lot the customer left and purchased the Toyota across the street. It didn't work out for this particular dealer to do side-by-side comparisons but it may for others.
p.s. This happened in Atlanta at World Toyota. It was awesome!
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mike 6:58PM (3/21/2009)
I would just like to point out that bottled water is typically more expensive than gasoline and in many places has its own scarcity issues.
So.. we would end up transporting it from somewhere to somewhere else for use, just like gasoline.
And in the end, the only really viable idea for using it is to split it and reclaim the hydrogen it contains and actually use that as a fuel.
In the end, it sounds like a neat idea but probably isn't.
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