If you're driving a hybrid, and actively "racing" your fuel economy numbers against other hybrid drivers (as Insight drivers are apparently wont to do), you probably see cars as evil greenhouse-gas-spewing planet murderers.
You keep making these assumptions like people who like both hybrid cars and gas-guzzling fun stuff don't exist.
I'll say this again:
I own an Insight. I'm also a car journalist (I try not to mention this too often, but I
have worked hard to get here and this
is a car forum), and I spent yesterday driving (and very much enjoying) cars with six, eight and twelve cylinders. Rather liked the 2005 NSX - built in the same factory as my Insight, actually.
A bloke called Jonny Smith owns an Insight. He's a TV presenter on 5th Gear. He also owns a pretty damn cool 1968 Dodge Charger, and has driven more cars than I could possibly count (certainly more than I have, and I've driven
approximately 300 different cars since starting this job about four years ago). He's also quite a nice bloke - I helped him buy the Insight and he called me last year asking about Miatas - knowing I'd written a book on them - as he was looking to buy one for his dad.
Another guy I'm aware of called Mark Elvin owns one. He worked for Williams F1 for six years in the early 2000s. He's now senior design engineer on the world's fastest car - Bloodhound SSC.
Another guy I know is called Simon. He's the guy I bought mine off. He replaced it with another. But he also owns a Lotus Elite and an Esprit at the moment. And a 1970 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Those are just his current cars though - the Esprit replaced a Ferrari 348, and that replaced a 1980s Porsche 911. There's been a few other Lotus in there too.
Then there's Mark. Mark writes for Octane magazine - like Evo, but more concentrated on classic cars. He owns a red Insight with 170K on the clock. It shares his garage with a Bentley Turbo R (one of the nice square-looking ones with the round headlights and the turbocharged V8) and a couple of other classics.
Or there's Harry Metcalfe. His car history is fairly well publicized, since he used to run Evo magazine. Doesn't have his Insight any more, but it did share garage space with his Zonda at one stage. I've got an issue where he's singing its praises, if you're interested in reading it.
So please, do tell me more how people who drive Insights are all car-hating hippies.
Could be worse - we could be grumpy, car-ignorant, supermarket-working wasters living in Alaska.
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And much of what Carbastard just said. I guess I'll be ignorant and say all Pontiac owners are myopic mind speakers considering what a couple of them here have said
