Actually, Honda people will get very upset if you refer to this, the Small Hybrid Sports Concept as the new Insight, becuase, according to them, the SHSC is far greater an idea than the Insight ever was.
It uses the Integrated Motor Assist hybrid system that we've sampled in the Civic Hybrid saloon, and which is also coming to the Civic hatchback later this year.
Around that environmentally-friendly drivetrain is wrapped a low-slung, tear-drop shaped sportscar body with seats for two. It uses a 1.4-litre VTEC petrol engine mated to an electric motor and batteries, and returns, Honda reckons, 3.5-litres per 100km on the combined cycle, with CO2 emissions of just 120g/km.
A more productionised version will be shown at the Tokyo Motor Show later this year, and the SHSC will go on sale in 2008.
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