2009 Honda Insight Hybrid to Make World Debut at the North American International Auto Show

TORRANCE, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ — The all-new 2009 Honda Insight
hybrid will make its world debut in January at the North American
International Auto Show in Detroit. The five-passenger, five-door Insight is
expected to be the most affordable hybrid car available when it goes on sale
in the spring of 2009.

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The Insight is expected to have annual global sales of 200,000 units per
year — approximately 100,000 in North America — and will utilize a new
interactive, driver-focused fuel economy enhancement technology named the
Ecological Drive Assist System (Eco Assist(TM)).

A leader in the development of cleaner, more fuel-efficient mobility
products, Honda introduced to market the first mass produced low-emission
gasoline vehicles; America’s first commercially produced gas-electric hybrid
car and the world’s first EPA-certified hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle, the FCX.
In 2007, Honda was named “greenest automaker” by the Union of Concerned
Scientists for the fourth straight time.

For more information and downloadable high-resolution images of the
Insight and other Honda vehicles, including the Civic Hybrid, please visit
http://www.hondanews.com. Consumer information is available at
http://www.honda.com.

SOURCE American Honda Motor Co., Inc.