Used 2019 Honda Insight Sedan Consumer Reviews
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Stranded!
Gary, 05/10/2020
2019 Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
Bought new in 2019, gets amazing mpg between 48-51 like clockwork, even with using AC. Has had some very slight fit & finish issues until 5/3. Started the car when it began revving & stalling than I received ‘Power System Failure, Do Not Drive’ Car was towed to the Honda dealer where it took them 2 days to diagnose a failure of Fuel injection relay & fuel pump. After years of European cars, I went with a Honda for the alleged reliability. Now I’m not so sure...even my 1977 VW camper has not stranded me like this year old car with less than 20k miles did! Sigh...
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Bet I'm Not the Only One
Clinton Brown, 02/04/2019
2019 Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
35 of 53 people found this review helpful
I was upset with Toyota for changing the design of the Prius and couldn't see spending another $30K+ for a car that appeared to be made with cheap materials on the interior so I checked out what I thought would be the next best thing--a Honda Insight. I test drove both the 2019 Insight and the 2018 Prius on the same day, and decided that the comfort, ride, interior styling and comparable gas mileage of the Insight was a better value. Boy was I wrong! Before I hit 1200 miles a warning light telling me that I had "Reduced Power" came on making my Insight non-operational. The dealership informed me that this was due to the cold weather in the midwest and that this is the way hybrid cars work and that I would just have to deal with it. I'm sorry, but I live in Michigan. You sold me a car in Michigan and then tell me I can't drive it when it is really cold in Michigan? I just went out and started my Prius and it works just fine. For the first 600 miles or so I was getting approximately 48 mpg. I drive on flat, country roads where the speed limit ranges from 35 - 50 mph. Around the 1000 mile mark I struggled to get 30 mpg. The dealership says "mileage may vary". A 15 mpg difference in a few hundred miles seems pretty extreme, but the dealership doesn't see an issue. I am now stuck with a vehicle that won't work in the cold and gets 30 mpg. I specifically purchased another hybrid because I drive over 100 miles a day. Wish I would have read more reviews because it seems I'm not the only one. Next time I will take the "cheap materials" over reliability and gas mileage.
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57 mpg overall
R, 08/29/2019
2019 Honda Insight EX 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
I’ve got 4000 miles on the ex, and am averaging only 57 mpg because I’m driving through hills in Cal. Great low center o gravity/handling, great std safety features, nice upgraded interior/tablet/upgraded sound system. Very, very happy!
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Insight is a new modified Accord
Dhruv Parikh, 08/28/2018
2019 Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
8 of 11 people found this review helpful
We actually went to get a Accord LX, a basic model for my son. After seeing Honda Insight Touring Model pretty much at the same price (couple of grands more), with a whole lot of new technology . Test drive was almost comparable. Honda Sensing feature with Android Play is icing on the cake.
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Just a few negative things
Rj, 04/06/2019
updated 05/09/2019
2019 Honda Insight LX 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
9 of 13 people found this review helpful
I really like the driveability,handling, technology, comfort, styling, quality and reliability of this car. The only things that I have noticed about the car is 1) It does have a low stance. That's nice but it's hard for me to judge where the back wheels are going to go. I have the LX model and it needs blind spot monitoring system too. 3) The one speed gas engine is good because it has no transmission, but I think the car would drive with less drone(or high revs) if it had at least 2 gears in it or had a turbo. When the battery is low, the gas engine has to power the car more, at higher revs. 4) In Winter driving the car has good traction due to its low center of gravity, but it does need a lower gear to brake the car going down a steep hill. The shift paddles on the steering wheel don't brake the car enough, & the car accelerates down the snow covered hill. 5) Lastly, the mpg for city driving is much lower in the Winter months. It has gotten as low as 32 miles per gallon in city driving. This Spring, the car's city mpg has upped to over 50 again, just like last October.
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inside the insight with a little foresight
Bob B, 01/15/2019
2019 Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
15 of 24 people found this review helpful
Very nice car. Looks great and technologically up to date. A little noisy at highway speeds but that is to be expected. The biggest disappointment IS POOR GAS MILEAGE. The EV mode needs to be adjusted to balance the real needs of the engine and running on the battery. In the last 30 days, I have only got 35 highway and 46 city. Mileage was much better before December 1st. Have no idea what changed but I'm not a happy camper.
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The Prius Killer
Doc Hollywood, 01/11/2019
updated 01/15/2020
2019 Honda Insight LX 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
This car was made for CA bumper to bumper traffic. I’m averaging over 60 mpg when in traffic and around 50 mpg in normal highway speeds. After two weeks of ownership I’m averaging a combined 61.8 mpg. I drive mostly on the 101 in horrible traffic so I’m in EV mode a lot. It is the perfect car for this LA traffic. After 25,000 miles I’m still averaging over 62 MPG. Only maintenance has been two oil changes.
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Nice car that falls short in key areas
VinceH, 02/28/2020
2019 Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
Owned my 2019 Insight touring for 4 months now and i'll have to say I am extremely disappointed in the fuel mileage comparative to what this car was advertised as being able to achieve.In the last 4 months of ownership I have not been able to break the 36MPG threshold which a friend of mine beats all day long with his 2018 civic! My daily commute is a 65 mile round trip 90/10 Highway City route and usually cruise at 72-75MPH with mostly flat terrain along my commute. Winter here in Wisconsin is rough and yes I do use the remote start for a 5 min warm up then set the ClimateC at 69 use the heated seats and switch between Sport mode entering the freeway and normal mode while cruising. Before purchasing this last November the salesman let me take the car out for a few hour test drive. Upon leaving the dealership I reset the OD and waited to observe results with mixed driving. After a few hours of driving I noticed I could not break 38MPG no matter what I was doing? After returning the car the dealer had me convinced that winter blended fuels and the air density/ cold weather all that jazz was probably sucking in excess of 10MPG from the car. Confused I ended up doing a similar test drive with a 2019 Prius XLE averaging 52MPG along a similar route a few days later. Well in the end the Insight is just a better looking car and has a more upscale feel so ended up purchasing it for this reason alone. So between the terrible droning the ICM makes transitioning off power (usually 4 big loud droning Hums after reaching freeway speeds(totally annoying!!) and the sub-par hybrid mileage i am getting my only hope is come April I will see some major improvements or I will be one unhappy Honda customer, heck I was getting 32MPG with my tuned 2013 Accord 2.4L Manual Trans that is just insane 3 more MPG? in a new high tech Hybrid? that's just a shame it could be Honda needs to look a little closer at Toyota's technologies and see what they are doing so right.
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better than advertised mileage
Tomas Dvorak, 05/28/2019
updated 06/08/2020
2019 Honda Insight LX 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
I bought LX trim in July 2018. Mileage when driving slow in the summer and spring is about 60MPG (!) - better than advertised. It drops significantly during winter to about 40MPG. I also love the safety features ACC and LA. Very happy with the car. Update: June 2020: Still loving the car - same great mileage.
More than I asked for from my other car
Hoang N, 01/08/2019
2019 Honda Insight Touring 4dr Sedan (1.5L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid CVT)
16 of 27 people found this review helpful
I wish I can comment on the other reviews. I will try to answer and give my opinion on the other negative reviews. For those who getting pour gas mileage, you are either in constant sport mode, going up a steep uphill, or stepping on the gas pedal too much. That will cause poor gas numbers no matter what car you drive. It's not honda's fault for the negative reviews on the mileage you get if you did the above too often. I stay in normal and eco mode the most. When my battery are having a decent charge, I switch to battery mode whenever I can...even on the freeway. To switch to battery on the freeway, you look at the left dash board (in front of the steering wheel), you will see a blue bar range on top of the green bar range. The green bar indicates charging. When i'm in the blue bar range, that is when I can use the battery. Once you leave the blue bar range, you lose battery to power your engine. Instead, it uses gas to charge the battery which takes the battery to run your engine. I get on average 49 mpg. On my active drive, this can be seen by going to the power flow icon located in the center screen (above center console), this will show you your active average drive. I get between 50 mpg - 63 mpg. I do use sport mode for entering freeways and changing lanes in a hurry, going up step hills (San Franciso hills) when I need to, my terrain is mostly flat. I average out between 10-12 days before refueling with between 40 - 60 miles left. For the seat comfort, it's not bad, it can be better with extra thickness for the seats and lumbar support would be nice. I do wish for the car to have lane assist when a car is nearby in addition to vents and USB ports for the passengers. There's no vents and USB ports in the back. I would like to have a place to hold my glasses near the sunroof area. I do wish for heated steering wheels and passenger seats. I wish for a bigger battery as 1 mile range is not enough. The paddle shifters (located in front of the steering wheel) are not for changing gears, they are use for how hard to charge your battery and will reset each time. The resetting is by design, if you constantly force it to charge the batter quicker each time you brake, then your brake pads are going to wear out sooner. I came from a sport car (270 HP) and paying $200 a month for gas. I now pay $64 a month. The horse power is getting use to at 151, but it has 30 more horse power than the Prius/Prius Prime. The insight drives a lot better than the Prius/Prius Prime. I love Android Auto Play. For the next flavor of Honda's Insight, I wish for more Horse Power, a Digital Odometer, Lane Assist for nearby cars, Wireless Charging, Heated Steering Wheel, Heated Passenger Seats, Passenger Side Mirror Auto Pointing down for reverse, A better Reverse Video, A front Video display so I know how far I can park in front of me, A place to hold my glasses near the Sunroof area, More Battery life or a Plug-in, Lumbar Support for Driver and Passenger (My wife has a bad back), an Outlet for my appliances which doesn't use USB for charging or usage (laptops usage, hair dryer usage, small fridge or warmer appliance), entertainment for the back passengers, driver memory settings, and most importantly a switch for turning off and on for the Nagging Wife/Girlfriends/Kids ( I know it's too much to ask for, but I'm sure people are willing to pay for the Nags Switch). You guys already have the switch to lock the doors and windows, so what is stopping you?
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