@matt_201
IT’S easy to think of hybrid cars as a relatively recent thing. But while their widespread adoption might have only happened in the past few years, the oldest mainstream production hybrids are now a quarter of a century old.
At the forefront of this push were the original versions of the Toyota Prius and the star of this feature, the Honda Insight. The much more radical of the two, it wears its eco credentials on its sleeves. Every part of it seems designed to eke out the best economy possible; the Insight is a far more ‘pure’ take on hybrid driving than the average heavy PHEV SUV rolling on huge wheels.
Here, there are 14-inch wheels shod in super-skinny 165-section low rolling-resistance tyres, and the rears are partly hidden under wheel spats and sit 110mm further inboard than the fronts, to lower drag.
