New Look.

Same Great Taste.

You used to be able to characterize the Honda Insight by two features:

#one: it's hybrid efficiency...

#two: it's kind of nerdy looks...

The 2019 Honda Insight Prototype reduces that count by one.

The original 1999 Insight was as advanced and purpose-built as the Acura NSX (it was even constructed on the same assembly line), and its covered rear wheels gave it a purposeful-looking weirdness. Limiting its appeal were its two-seat arrangement and its availability with only a manual transmission, with optional air conditioning, the first year it was on sale. The second generation, released in 2009, sought broader appeal — to a fault. It was to be the most affordable hybrid on the market, cutting refinement in the process, and while its hatchback wedge shape wasn't too weird, it was a bit homely.

Now for it's third generation

The 2019 Insight Prototype appears to land somewhere in the middle of the previous models' extremes. Sure, it's still a hybrid, but this time it looks good, too.

The 2019 Insight Prototype adopts a few design cues from other recent Honda models, such as the sloping rear roofline first seen on the new Civic and a front-end design that's similar to the latest Accord's. The overall result doesn't look like a spaceship, like the first Insight. And it doesn't it look like an appliance, like the second Insight. It's merely a handsome sedan: a welcome refresher, first discovered by Tesla, that vehicles with alternate means of propulsion don't have to look weird.

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Honda wants to make two-thirds of its global vehicles use some form of electric propulsion by 2030. To that end, the Insight will be one of five alternative power vehicles from Honda, joining the Accord Hybrid and Clarity family of cars that includes a fuel cell, a full electric, and a plug-in hybrid. The Clarity range starts at $34,290, and the forthcoming Accord Hybrid should slot right underneath that price, so we bet that the Insight will fall in the low $20,000s when it goes on sale later this year.**

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