The Detroit auto show has come and gone, and has left the automotive industry with a little more to chew over. As a final wrap-up to quite possibly the most important auto show in America, we chose 10 cars that summed up the best of the show.
There’s more bad news for Honda: The company is recalling 646,000 Honda Fits worldwide for a potentially dangerous problem with the vehicles’ power-window switches. It turns out that if these switches get wet—via an open window in the rain, for example—they can start burning and eventually catch on fire.
First off, let us all recognize the 2800 pound, leaf-eating pachyderm in the room. Though the 2009 Insight is Honda's latest hybrid, it looks suspiciously like the Toyota Prius
Fit: A hybrid version of the 2007 Fit may be offered in 2008 or 2009.\r\nNew hybrid: A 2009 model year entry-level, four-door Fit hybrid to be introduced.\r\nInsight
Hybrid cars continue to be the dominant force in automotive green technology. Even has automakers continue to explore plug-in electric power and hydrogen, hybrids are becoming more viable
You may have noticed that we haven’t been able to fully embrace the petrol-electric hybrid in these pages. Whilst we applaud the thinking behind the design and the fact that they save fuel and reduce emissions all of which is admirable we have questioned the complexity and expense involved.
American Honda Motor Co. Inc. plans to kill the Insight hybrid this year. The small, two-seat Insight, introduced in the United States in 1999, sold only 320 units in the first four months of this year. That compares with sales of 30,357 for the competing Toyota Prius, a family sedan embraced by environmentalists.
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