GTP Cool Wall: 1999-2006 Honda Insight

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1999-2006 Honda Insight

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Hey, if I could find a diesel car with a manual choke, timing advance and a crank starter, I'd be set for the apocalypse. Just me, my family, a hundred thousand rounds of .22, an armored diesel truck and a hundred drums of vegetable oil.
 
niky
Hey, if I could find a diesel car with a manual choke, timing advance and a crank starter, I'd be set for the apocalypse. Just me, my family, a hundred thousand rounds of .22, an armored diesel truck and a hundred drums of vegetable oil.
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Maybe I should teach you how to make ethanol and help you convert your vehicle over!!!:dopey:
 
Wolfe
If you like going fast and changing gears, buy a motorcycle. It's warm enough for part of the year, isn't it? A bike is by far the most affordable route to what you're after, and I think they'll be around for years after new cars are all "boring" to you.
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XR650R

Manual choke.
Kickstart.
Cable throttle.
Direct steering.
Giant engine with that all important TARQUE.
No ABS or traction control.

Although it does have a 4 valve head, which (as we all know) is evil.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Maybe I should teach you how to make ethanol and help you convert your vehicle over!!!:dopey:
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Methane is actually the easiest. Get a compost pile started, put it in a sealed drum and cap the lid with a bladder (old inner tube, preferably)... once the bladder is inflated, you can run a tractor engine off of it. No need for chemistry.

Vegetable oil is almost as easy... you could render animal fat, but the issue with that is if it's beef, there's stuff in there that will eat into the valves.

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Also: diesel... no need to scrounge for spark plugs. Have one with timing gear instead of a belt and all you'll need to worry about is lubricating it.


Possibly with more vegetable oil. :D
 
niky
Methane is actually the easiest. Get a compost pile started, put it in a sealed drum and cap the lid with a bladder (old inner tube, preferably)... once the bladder is inflated, you can run a tractor engine off of it. No need for chemistry.

Vegetable oil is almost as easy... you could render animal fat, but the issue with that is if it's beef, there's stuff in there that will eat into the valves.

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Also: diesel... no need to scrounge for spark plugs. Have one with timing gear instead of a belt and all you'll need to worry about is lubricating it.

Possibly with more vegetable oil. :D
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Yes but you're forgetting I can weld many metals and fabricate stuff...thus I can make you *looks around for the FBI agents W&N is always talking about in the shadows*... A still but keep it quite friend.

Also I know vege-table is easy to convert into diesel I learned how to do that as well from a couple of my chem engineering buddies that researched it a bit. But hey if you don't want to pretend to be mad max with me fine:grumpy:


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LMSCorvetteGT2
But hey if you don't want to pretend to be mad max with me fine:grumpy:
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I'd do it, but I think I'll just stick with @niky, he has an armored truck and 100,000 rounds of .22. I'll just supply the rifles. ;)
 
@White & Nerdy : I'll not bother commenting on your latest rants - it's always the same, really - but I really would like to see you not ignore this:

homeforsummer
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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niky
You have 99.9% less problems than the rest of the world.
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But he *is* in Jay's old shoes; a female ain't one.

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First-gen Insight? Always cool. Second gen? Always Uncool, bordering SU. The first-gen was an engineering-driven approach to hybrids that managed what the marketing-led Prius still hasn't accomplished. I'd expect nothing less from Soichiro's company; they gave us the NSX and S2000, after all.
 
SlipZtrEm
I'd expect nothing less from Soichiro's company; they gave us the NSX and S2000, after all.
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"Damn straight!"​
 
SlipZtrEm
@White & Nerdy : I'll not bother commenting on your latest rants - it's always the same, really - but I really would like to see you not ignore this:





But he *is* in Jay's old shoes; a female ain't one.

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First-gen Insight? Always cool. Second gen? Always Uncool, bordering SU. The first-gen was an engineering-driven approach to hybrids that managed what the marketing-led Prius still hasn't accomplished. I'd expect nothing less from Soichiro's company; they gave us the NSX and S2000, after all.
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Stop right there Slipz cause all W&N is going to say is this...
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Stop right there Slipz cause all W&N is going to say is this...
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Or people who drive slow cars. Or advocates of evil new technologies. Or communist environmentalists. Or communist environmentalists that advocate evil new technologies and drive slow cars.

Sigh...I have to stop picking on the lil' angry fellow. I'll sort of pray for his soul, or whatever is the agnostic version of that expression 👍. If only he didn't make it so easy and so fun...but I disgress, gotta stop :).
 
Wolfe
I grew up with Captain Planet on TV
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Now that was a good show.

The storylines were a bit predictable, though. I think nearly every episode one of them lost their ring, or it got stolen, or it fell into a vat of nuclear waste or something, thereby rendering the Planeteers unable to summon Captain Planet and fend off whatever villain was trying to pollute the river or whatever. Seriously, those guys were pretty bad at looking after those rings considering how important they were.
 
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Definitely cool. Much rarer than the prius and I'm guessing even more fuel efficient.

I honestly don't get the anti enviroment attitudes of a lot of car people. There's nothing wrong with caring about the enviroment, in fact quite the opposite. Now I like powerful fast cars just as much as the next guy but you have to be able to admit that there's negative stuff associated with it as well.
 
Encyclopedia
Definitely cool. Much rarer than the prius and I'm guessing even more fuel efficient.

I honestly don't get the anti enviroment attitudes of a lot of car people.
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Because fuel efficiency is boring as 🤬!
 
As I said in the Veyron thread, good engineering is doing more with less, not more with more (IMHO). I still don't find the insight 'cool', but getting good economy, and thus having money to spend on 'things' is.
 
Azure Flare
I think you both took that seriously, you should know better than to take me seriously in that context.
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Sorry, I just know or know of way too many people who would say exactly that. It's not an uncommon opinion.
 
True, but I'm not the type to say something like that and mean it.
 
Yeah, I know, I'm just preoccupied. What with exams, sorting out accommodation, and trying to get my mate to realise that he's an idiot, I'm kind of absent minded.
 
I love these funky, futuristic little things. Definitely one of those cars that are a fantastic conversation starter piece and neat because how different it was and still is to everything else on the road, both design wise and technologically.

I would rock one of these.

Sub zero.
 
Dennisch
I have 2 whitty replies:

1. I'm telling Danny that you called him an idiot.
2. You do realize that that is a mirror, right?

Pick as desired.
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I'll pick number 2. Danny's not an idiot. Me, on the other hand...

EDIT: Scratch that, I thought this was the Infield for a second.
 
I voted cool.

Typical crazy honda car design.
First hybrid
Good for long distance travellers or people that need to sit in traffic a fair bit.
Cheap to run

The people who say uncool cause it is a hybird are just upset the world is changing and few companies make cars that have 750 cubic inch engines that need 2 gallons of petrol to start.

And if you are smart you could replace the battery pack with a new ones, and get even more MPG since the batteries have more capacity.
 
niky
Also: diesel... no need to scrounge for spark plugs. Have one with timing gear instead of a belt and all you'll need to worry about is lubricating it.
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You forgot to mention when they go bang after they go into a run-a-way condition.
 

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