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I own a 2001 Blue Insight and it is a work in progress. My main goal is to make it unique without harming the mileage (I am currently averaging 68 mpg). Some of the things I have done to it are a custom full leather interior, stereo system, HID's, shaved emblems and rear wiper, and some other small details. Here is an outside shot:
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12-13-2002, 04:36 PM
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Originally posted by blueinsight
Some of the things I have done to it are a custom full leather interior, stereo system, HID's, shaved emblems and rear wiper, and some other small details. Here is an outside shot:
Some of the things I have done to it are a custom full leather interior, stereo system, HID's, shaved emblems and rear wiper, and some other small details. Here is an outside shot:
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3 cylinder, one liter v-tech sohc plus 10k watts of IMA electric motor. Total hp is about 67 with a full charge on the IMA, really they get up and go for such an econobox. Quarter mile times are in the high 17's stock. I don't think you would really wanna get in to too much modification. I bought mine for the mileage. Any modification to the drive train at all murders the mileage. However I must say from personal trials it is slightly faster than your every day stock civic and it will do 113mph before it hits the rev limiter in 3rd. Unofficially I think they added a speed limiter in the 2002's, but I've heard of some getting theirs up to 125 using 4th (which is an over drive gear).
This really is not the car to buy to modify. Really it would make a great project car though if you could find one with a blown engine, you could get a few thousand for the IMA parts I think. But the car is all alluminum and weighs under 1900 pounds. I heard that there was a shop in California with one for a project race car.. could be interesting.
I got mine for the technology and mileage as my 4 day a week commute is 52 miles. On the open freeway moving along I can get over 80 miles per gallon under the right circumstances. 70mpg's is not hard to get at all, though the EPA claims only 68 highway. I recommend the manual transmission as they did not incorporate lean burn in to the CVT models just to get the super ultra low emissions rating, that and naturally the preformance is better.
If you really want one look on ebay, there are some 200's with some miles on em going for as little as 10,000 which is really cheap considering they are 21,000 new and adding on top of that the fact that they cost honda about 35,000 to build each. Yes they are selling them to the US market at a loss just to shove it in Toyota's face with their Prius hybrid.
About the only bad things about the car are the road noise and the rought ride. Everything is aimed at efficiency. The suspension is pretty stiff to keep decent handling despite the skinny low rolling resistence tires. The tires are about the loudest thing on the car, road noise is pretty bad because of the low rolling resistence. And the factory stereo is probably the worst ever, but it is easily upgraded with 30 amps to play with on the stock electrical system (absolutely do not go over 30 amps in for you stereo, you will blow a $700 DC/DC converter). Plus the hole for the head unit is a ISO DIN style, really easy to swap out.
Hope that answers your questions.
This really is not the car to buy to modify. Really it would make a great project car though if you could find one with a blown engine, you could get a few thousand for the IMA parts I think. But the car is all alluminum and weighs under 1900 pounds. I heard that there was a shop in California with one for a project race car.. could be interesting.
I got mine for the technology and mileage as my 4 day a week commute is 52 miles. On the open freeway moving along I can get over 80 miles per gallon under the right circumstances. 70mpg's is not hard to get at all, though the EPA claims only 68 highway. I recommend the manual transmission as they did not incorporate lean burn in to the CVT models just to get the super ultra low emissions rating, that and naturally the preformance is better.
If you really want one look on ebay, there are some 200's with some miles on em going for as little as 10,000 which is really cheap considering they are 21,000 new and adding on top of that the fact that they cost honda about 35,000 to build each. Yes they are selling them to the US market at a loss just to shove it in Toyota's face with their Prius hybrid.
About the only bad things about the car are the road noise and the rought ride. Everything is aimed at efficiency. The suspension is pretty stiff to keep decent handling despite the skinny low rolling resistence tires. The tires are about the loudest thing on the car, road noise is pretty bad because of the low rolling resistence. And the factory stereo is probably the worst ever, but it is easily upgraded with 30 amps to play with on the stock electrical system (absolutely do not go over 30 amps in for you stereo, you will blow a $700 DC/DC converter). Plus the hole for the head unit is a ISO DIN style, really easy to swap out.
Hope that answers your questions.
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