Honda Insight - NMNA

http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/cto/5882080577.html

How bad/good are these as dd cars. And I'm talking fun/performance.

I've heard they are good commuters, never driven one, but it seems fairly boring.

Great gas mileage appeal to me since I drive ~30k miles a year, but since I drive ~30k miles a year, I want to do it in something I like driving, thus: The answer.

markwemple wrote: How bad/good are these as dd cars. And I'm talking fun/performance.

Csaba Csere wrote a little editorial when these came out that described driving the Insight as a different kind of performance driving, focused not on lap times, but economy. A kind of driving that concerns itself with how, for example, to best maintain speed and economy when behind a garbage truck.

I drove a friends quite a bit. Got good economy and all, but was mind-numbingly boring and felt thin and cheap.

Fun, fun, fun until you need to buy new batteries.

I commuted in one for a year and a half. It was nice getting close to 50 mpg but I have 30+ miles of hilly interstate. Really rough in that car. If I was on flatter ground at sub 70 speeds, I would have kept it. It was actually fun to drive since it is so light. This is my choice for a land speed car. Plus a Superbike engine.

These were built at the same place as the nsx and s2000. It appears that widening the rear track and upgrading the suspension makes these, with 5 speeds, a reasonably fun drive.

I owned one of these and a CRX HF at the same time and the only thing it didn't do better was haul cargo.

Hard to find one that's a manual and not beat up