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

Posted on: Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 08:00 CST

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.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081203/LAW020)

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.

Source: PR Newswire

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