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The Insight cost £27,000 per car to build, but Honda sold them for £17,000. So £6,995 for one with 6k on the clock ain't bad! The beauty is that you don't have to modify your house to plug the thing in every night, as it's a hybrid, rather than full electric. Cleverly, it has an electric motor to give some extra grunt when required. When it's not, the car uses natural friction built up in the car (braking etc) to charge the motor back up. Genius. Apparently you can expect to see the Honda/Acura NSX with the same technology next year. They reckon 300hp from the petrol motor and two electric motors developing 50hp each, so 400hp in total. And 42mpg.
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