GTP Cool Wall: 1999-2006 Honda Insight

[homeforsummer]

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.

If I keep mine long enough, that's the plan with it if the battery ever decides it's had enough. Few companies around doing Li-ion upgrades with a higher output and larger capacity.

 

[niky]

I haven't seen any cars with a 12 litre engine in a long time. Can you point me towards one?

I keep pestering Foton to let me test drive their eleven liter turbo-diesel tractor head, but so far... no such luck.

You forgot to mention when they go bang after they go into a run-a-way condition.

Add a throttle plate. Problem solved.

 

[Moglet]

Cool. It's nippy, easy to drive, efficient and interesting. I imagine they turn a lot more heads than your average sports car!

 

[Cano]

:0 omfg

175 mph.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

It definitely deserves at least a cool rating.
Not only it stands out a bit, it's way better looking than the Prius, and also unlike the Toyota Prius: you'll less likely run into one of these kinda drivers in an insight:

Warning: Strong language is in the video.

 

[homeforsummer]

:0 omfg
175 mph.

Was wondering where I recognised that one from. It's from this rather messy video...



"Escaped with relatively minor injuries", thankfully. Crash believed to have happened between 180-190mph

 

[Roger the Horse]

Wow. Glad to hear he was okay, although I'm not surprised, it was a fast crash, but not one I'd expect to do much damage to anyone with a HANS device on in modern machinery.

 

[Famine]

Was wondering where I recognised that one from. It's from this rather messy video...

"Escaped with relatively minor injuries", thankfully. Crash believed to have happened between 180-190mph

One advantage of the small size and slippy shape is the sheer lack of power required to make it go really quite alarmingly fast. And another advantage of being based on a Civic is that Civic engines fit.

When you're replacing the battery pack with more potent stuff, give it a K20 too. That would be most amusing.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

I can['t] see it now: The Homeforsummer Outtasight.

 

[CarBastard]

One advantage of the small size and slippy shape is the sheer lack of power required to make it go really quite alarmingly fast. And another advantage of being based on a Civic is that Civic engines fit.

When you're replacing the battery pack with more potent stuff, give it a K20 too. That would be most amusing.

I changed my mind, the Insight is no longer cool.

It's Sub-Zero. Period.

 

[Azure Flare]

When you're replacing the battery pack with more potent stuff, give it a K20 too. That would be most amusing.

Yes.

 

[White & Nerdy]

0.344.

I still find it disheartening that a car this lacking in speed, style, "machoness" or anything else cool can get as many cool votes as this one did. "Looks like something from the future" - yeah, it looks like something the proletariat would be forced to drive in a dystopian future.

 

[Azure Flare]

Because reasons.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

0.344.

I still find it disheartening that a car this lacking in speed, style, "machoness" or anything else cool can get as many cool votes as this one did. "Looks like something from the future" - yeah, it looks like something the proletariat would be forced to drive in a dystopian future.

My god shut up already geez, I'm sorry but his use of political terms on improper levels is just too much. Also I think I speak for most if not everyone around these threads that wouldn't come to you nor use you as the a point of reference for what is so called "manly" and what isn't.

 

[homeforsummer]

I still find it disheartening

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Also, how're you doing with that response to all the car guys (including myself) who own this supposedly non-enthusiast car? Or have the cogs not stopped grinding on that one yet?

Or are four car journalists, a land speed record engineer and a guy who buys Lotuses, Ferraris, Porsches and 70s Cadillacs just less of a car enthusiast than you?

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

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Also, how're you doing with that response to all the car guys (including myself) who own this supposedly non-enthusiast car? Or have the cogs not stopped grinding on that one yet?

Or are four car journalists, a land speed record engineer and a guy who buys Lotuses, Ferraris, Porsches and 70s Cadillacs just less of a car enthusiast than you?

How dare you speak to the paragon like that, you better watch yourself there former enthusiast card holder

 

[Clark]

I still find it disheartening that a car this lacking in speed, style, "machoness" or anything else cool can get as many cool votes as this one did.

This doesn't lack in speed, it has a style (although not a style I like particularly) and is definitely macho. Is it cool?


Is it fu...

 

[niky]

"machoness"

The last time this word was within a hundred nautical miles of being cool was...

Once upon a time, gold chains and open shirts were cool.







Not.

 

[homeforsummer]

This is my first thought when anyone says the word "macho":

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Don't try and tell me the Village People aren't cool... their songs are at least... half as cool as the Footloose soundtrack. Maybe more.

 

[White & Nerdy]

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This doesn't lack in speed, it has a style (although not a style I like particularly) and is definitely macho. Is it cool?


Is it fu...

I'd say it's definitely cool and wouldn't particularly call it ugly either. Wouldn't be embarassed to show my face in it at all, unlike this thing, which is right down there with the VW New Beetle in "just wear a mask or something" levels of embarrassing.

@niky @homeforsummer You try to find a better word.

 

[Famine]

@niky @homeforsummer You try to find a better word.

Two professional writers. I'm sure they'll struggle.

 

[Jet Badger]

I can tell you what "manly" is. It is when things like the car you drive don't make you feel insecure or less or more of a man. Oh the irony, if you need a "penis extender" car to make you feel cool or manly, the you're not exactly sure of your own masculinity.

 

[Roger the Horse]

Things I find manly about a man:

Manly.

Manly.

Manly tears. (Resulting from the manliness above)

Manly.

 

[Azure Flare]

Kirby and Rainbow Dash have 1 thing in common, they are both badass.

 

[homeforsummer]

@niky @homeforsummer You try to find a better word.

The word isn't the problem. The context is - i.e, it's being spoken by a grumpy teenager who spends whatever time he isn't stacking shelves complaining about ponies and hybrids on a videogame forum on the internet. There's nothing explicitly wrong with the word "macho" - you just have an incredibly skewed view of the world that holds "macho" up as something to aspire to.

Being a "real man" or whatever it is you assume everyone is ceasing to become isn't about being burly, loud and obnoxious, it's about being confident, intelligent, respectful, and successful in your endeavors. It just so happens that cars that represent the latter four characteristics are also a great deal cooler than those that represent the former.

Oh, and I'm still waiting on that response about whether you think the listed Insight owners are car enthusiasts or not.

I can give you the answer of course - they are. And they are as much because of their Insight ownership as they are in spite of it.

 

[Rage Racer]

Honda hybrids are cool when they look like this (the right car):

 

[niky]

@niky @homeforsummer You try to find a better word.

homeforsummer said it, already, but simply: "insecure."

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You seem to believe cars represent things they do not simply because they have the wrong engine, the wrong drivetrain or whatever you imagine they represent on a socio-political scale that's only obvious to yourself.

A Prius https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/gtp-cool-wall-2003-2009-toyota-prius.291316/ isn't uncool because it's a hybrid. It's uncool because it's a big, heavy, five-door family car that's deathly dull to drive. Note: Homeforsummer, that awful, green-car-loving hippie... ...voted it seriously uncool. I gave it a "meh" simply because the computers are fun to play with, though it's still horribly dull, otherwise... unless it's wet out and you fancy drifting an arse-heavy hybrid on skinny tires in the rain (done... and done. )

An Insight is not a big, heavy, five-door family car. It's a three-door toy for enthusiasts, built with incredibly clever engineering, an ultra-lightweight body and some of the best aerodynamics ever. Most Insight owners I know are either writers/enthusiasts, or eternal tinkers and modifiers, who can't leave well enough alone, and are always looking for ways to improve the drivetrain or suspension.

Want to see how far off you are on Insight? Go check out an Insight forum and find out what they think about K20-swapped Insights. They love them. The only naysayers are the ones who say "it's too cliched", but by and large, most Insight enthusiasts are actual petrolheads.

 

[Mikeybc]

homeforsummer said it, already, but simply: "insecure.".

Nailed it !

 

[Roger the Horse]

0.344.

I still find it disheartening that a car this lacking in speed, style, "machoness" or anything else uncool can get as many uncool votes as this one did. "Looks like something from the future" - yeah, it looks like something the former proletariat would use as transportation in a utopian future.

Fixed.

homeforsummer said it, already, but simply: "insecure."

Ah, personal insecurities. Is there a worse blight on humanity? Insecurity breeds fear and hatred, not only of others, but of one's self. Insecurity makes people desire to fit into certain groups, categories, or cliques, even when they don't really feel themselves in that group. Insecurity leads people to "other" those who have superficial differences to them, and to ignore the far larger similarities between they have. Insecurity leads to people being able to admit who they really are, and what they really want, for fear of disappointing others. Insecurity breeds bigotry and keeps people from behaving in a productive manner around very serious issues.

It also leads people to buy big shouty angry noisy loud automobiles because they think that size matters.

 

[White & Nerdy]

I can tell you what "manly" is. It is when things like the car you drive don't make you feel insecure or less or more of a man. Oh the irony, if you need a "penis extender" car to make you feel cool or manly, the you're not exactly sure of your own masculinity.

That's not my point. The point is, you should want one of those cars, or in this case, should prefer them over KdF-Wagen 2020 Edition.

Things I find manly about a man:

Manly.

If it weren't for Smash Bros. I'd be inclined to take exception to that.

Manly.

Well, that looks a lot like a bazooka, so based on no information whatsoever about the whatever show that is, OK.

Manly tears. (Resulting from the manliness above)

Don't know.

Manly.

Ah yes, the best of the ponies (this thread becomes brony thunderdome in 3, 2, 1...). However, that's a bit like saying "ah yes, I prefer the Turbo S, the best of the Volkswagen New Beetles." Rather avoid all of them, TYVM.

What is that?

A Prius https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/gtp-cool-wall-2003-2009-toyota-prius.291316/ isn't uncool because it's a hybrid. It's uncool because it's a big, heavy, five-door family car that's deathly dull to drive.

It's not just uncool because it's a hybrid. It's uncool because it's the hybrid - the gen 1 Insight probably gets better mileage, but the Prius got all the publicity, and ended up becoming the car of choice for obnoxious leftists who want to make a big show of saving the planet. And I can't really think of many associations less cool than that.

Remember the video where the Prius lady accosts a pickup driver and berates them for polluting? That's the kind of person that drives a Prius. And if I'd been the pickup driver in the video, when she accused me of spewing pollution, I might well have said "I know, and it feels soooooo goood", then left with a nice loud burnout.

Fixed.

I meant what I said. If everyone is driving around in ugly 3-cylinder hybrids like this, I'd have a hard time calling it a utopia.