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Re-activateThat the Insight hasn't made a positive impression on us here at Consumer Reports isn't newsworthy anymore. I personally wasn't impressed with it during my time driving it, finding it very rough when the engine automatically shut off at stoplights. I also think the Insight is noisy, cramped, too slow, and overall unpleasant. But the coup de grâce for me is the relationship between seating, the dash, and the steering wheel.
I'm 6-feet tall and prefer to sit relatively upright with the seat cushion as low to the floor as possible. With the Insight, no matter how I adjusted the seat and steering wheel positions, I ran into a conflict between comfort and seeing the high-mounted digital speedometer.
In order to see the speedometer I had to lower the steering wheel…which resulted in my hands or the wheel rim impacting my thighs. If I raised the wheel enough to clear my legs, I no longer can see the speedometer, as shown in the photo.
Perhaps I'm outside of the percentile range of people to which Honda sized the car. But I don't think I've ever come across a vehicle that forced me to make such a compromised choice between being able to comfortably and safely control the car and actually see all of the gauges.
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