automotive industries has a ton of info on the honda insight. i want to like the car… maybe the next gen will be good enough (when i dump my languishing buick). ai has a dec99 feature on the insight and prius, also there’s a guy with a dedicated insight log / site.
What’s the future hold? Soon after you read this, GM will unveil its hybrid-powered Precept, the automaker’s bid for the 80-mpg “supercar” jointly developed under the government’s Partnership for a New Generation Vehicle program. Precept breaks so much new design and engineering ground that the team’s motto was, “This is rocket science.” Expect a feature on Precept in AI next month — and an equally advanced PNGV study from Ford. Both concepts will be drivable by 2003, though GM has yet to prove Precept can achieve the 80-mpg bogey. By that time, the critics may see Insight and Prius in a different light.
here’s the january 2000 precept article. pretty frickin cool. “We eventually adopted two mottos: Yes, we must reinvent the wheel, and yes, this is rocket science!”