Honda Insight Hybrid

If you really want to do your part to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution, then ride a bike and take public transportation. The next best thing is to drive the Honda Insight. (After all, you might need a car. It’s America.)

But if you want a new Insight, you'll need to move quickly. Honda stopped making the two-seater Insight in Sept. 2006.

The latest wave of muscular and flashy hybrids have arrived. They each offer their own exciting new bells and whistles: luxury features, enhanced performance, three-prong outlets, and so on—but wasn’t the point of hybrids supposed to be great gas mileage? If saving the atmosphere and reducing our foreign oil dependency is the reason that you’re thinking about a hybrid—and you can live with a two-door car—the Insight may be just the ticket.

Released in 2000 as the first hybrid car to hit the mass market, the Honda Insight is the undisputed king of fuel efficiency and low emissions. How would you like to boast 70+ mpg to your friends?

Honda sold less than 2,000 Insights in 2005, and fewer than 1,000 units through September of 2006. With the introduction of a new small hybrid-specific car planned for 2009—a hybrid version of a Honda Fit or something like it — the company decided to discountinue production of the Insight.

So, if you want to have an absolute blast on the road by driving the hippest (tear-drop futuristic design) and smartest (ultra-light body with super efficient engine) hybrid on the road, then think about giving the Insight a try—while supplies last.