The similar dimensions for Toyota Prius includes the overall height of Different aspects are rated for both prius and Honda insight for a period of time. The ratings are based upon the consumer review and crash tests conducted by reputable organizations. The ratings for Honda insight are 7 on the scale of 10 for interior and exterior equipment, 7 for comfort, 7 for features, 6 for performance excellence, 8 for safety and 9 for fuel economy and MPG.
The ratings for Toyota prius are 6 for interior and exterior equipment, 8 for comfort and quality, 9 for features, 10 for fuel economy and mpg, 8 for safety and 5 for performance excellence. Toyota prius is better as compared to Honda insight and easily defeats it on varying dimensions. Let it be the engine parameters, power generation capacity, fuel economy, off road and on road performance, spaciousness, delicacy or cargo volume; prius stands out and blow off the competition completely.
Desktop Icon PC Site. Menu Icon Menu. Why Choose SBT? When it comes to hybrid cars, the Toyota Prius has reigned supreme for the past couple of decades. In fact, when most consumers think of a hybrid car, the Toyota Prius is most likely the first, and probably only, car that comes to mind. Until , when the Honda Insight came back into the market with a different body style and a revised powertrain.
It might not be the household name like the Prius, but here are five ways in which we think the Insight is actually better than the Toyota legend.
This one might seem like a cheap shot, but hybrids are all about getting the best fuel economy, and in that case, every mile counts. So if it makes you feel better, the Prius gets 50 mpg on the highway, while the Insight is rated at Looks are subjective and we will admit that the Prius has gotten better in the design department over time, but it still looks like an aerodynamic door stop.
Although both cars ignite their powertrains with the push of a button, the acoustical theatrics and obtuse logic of the Prius Limited's As a silly soundtrack starts playing, 24 interminable seconds pass from the starter button press to the screen's accessibility for instance, being able to change the fan speed. And the soap-opera Muzak doesn't end when you switch the car off—it carries on again and doesn't pause when you open the door.
Frankly, whenever anybody was standing close by in a parking lot, I'd just sit there and wait for it to finish, to remove the possibility of proximity embarrassment as I got out. At first tap, the Prius' big screen seems like a lower-resolution, mini version of the Tesla 's. It's not. Let's say it has some peculiar rules.
Sometimes you have to rotary swipe through icons to get where you want; other functions are masked beneath obtuse layers. To test whether my befuddlement was just me, I deployed the Device-Savvy Kid Test DSKT : I timed my year-old son, who's never seen either car's interface before, as he tried to change the Prius' temperature and fan speed. For By contrast, the Insight's screen fires up in The Insight's interface is a promising blend of physical and virtual controls.
Personally, I'd go for a lower-trim Prius and the simpler screen just to avoid the upmarket version's hassle. As for the user interface of everything that's not a screen in the middle of the dash, your thoughts on the cars' interiors will probably depend on which of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types you are.
Do you perceive the Insight's interior as dully conventional or tastefully familiar? Is the Prius modern-edgy or wacko-ugly? As a purely functional matter, I grew to prefer the Prius' high-positioned, dash-center speed display always visible whereas the Insight's was often blocked by the steering wheel. And the Prius' easy-to-master toggle shifter is quickly stirred without ever needing a single glance down. Conversely, despite the Insight shifter's distinctively shaped buttons, I was always distracted by a glance down at it anyway.
Let's get ready to drive, then. Reaching around the steering wheels to press both cars' start buttons brings some electrical hums and illuminates their instrument displays in the dark night. Explaining the differences between Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive and Honda's two-motor system can easily sprawl into a dissertation along the lines of Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism against Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophical pessimism.
Here's my "Dilbert" cartoon version. Prius: Its front wheels are always powered by its primary hp electric motor, with its hp 1. And sometimes the contraption also weaves in a second electric motor that's either a starter motor or, at other times, a generator. If a bathroom scale could measure horsepower instead of weight, all these different power-making parts would peak at hp. Its front wheels are powered by a hp electric motor that initially moves the car as an EV.
But press the accelerator further, and its hp 1. At even higher speeds, the engine more efficiently mechanically clutches to the wheels through a single gear ratio. Put all this stuff on that same scale, and it tops out at hp. As I creep out of the parking lot, the Insight's engine alights so subtly that it's almost undetectable—whereas the Prius' raises a sudden, thrummy noise.
If you check the specs, those and numbers sensibly align with the cars' respective 9. But they certainly don't jibe with my subjective impressions on my test loop, where the Prius feels much, much friskier when you dab the pedal off the line. That aforementioned planetary whirligig allows its engine to more quickly inject the power it does have.
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