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http://www.carshare.org/images/car_106.jpg

The next door neighbor pulled up in this today while I was working in the garage. I asked her if I could give it a spin around the block.

Having driven a Prius and a HCH I was a little underwhelmed by the FE feedback, did I miss switching to a mpg screen?

Took me most of the trip to find the window buttons on the dash.:o

Powerwise it seems to have plenty of go with the 5-speed. It can at least accelerate faster than I usually do with my truck.

It's part of a small fleet of cars in a carshare program here where you can pay to join a club of members that use the vehicles as needed.

http://www.carshare.org/ht/cars.html

What a coincidence, I drove one of those yesterday myself!! Oh, but wait... ;)

Instantaneous mpg is a horizontal bar at the bottom of the screen. Avg mpg is displayed as a number towards the right side and can show lifetime, trip 1, trip 2, or segment. No flow schematics or bar charts. Personally I'd like a sultry female voice whispering my mpg at intervals.

hey, so did I!!!

There is a way that you can disable the iFCD bar on some trip screens. The car share service might have done that to keep unfamiliar drivers from being too distracted while driving.

Hi WW:

___As Justin mentioned, I doubt you saw the full effect because the Insight has some of the best FCD instrumentation available including an FCD, Trip A, B and lmpg screens with the iFCD bar showing up under all screens unless it was disabled?

___Good Luck

___Wayne

That looks very familiar. :)

I like the instant fuel economy in the dash - very easy to monitor FE...I disagree with the distraction concerns. While it does not have the information a Prius has, it has the critical info well placed in your face.

I have done some drving in my silver Insight in Colorado - it does well in the Denver area, Boulder, US 34/36 in Rocky Mtn Natonal Park. The acid test in long climbs on I25 in southern Colorado, and I70. An inexperienced Insight driver can easily run their battery pack down if the "just drive it" at 75mph. Having said that, conventional cars geared for economy will have problems on those climbs - my 88 CRX HF did less well....

There is a way that you can disable the iFCD bar on some trip screens. The car share service might have done that to keep unfamiliar drivers from being too distracted while driving.

Seems that was the case, I found this image but the Insight I drove did not have the center display as seen below the speedometer.:mad:

http://www.canadiandriver.com/articles/jc/images/01insight_dash2.jpg

I drove an Insight yesterday too, my first time driving it after 2 weeks in London, and 1 week of just not needing to drive anywhere. It was a little wierd. I was afraid I was going to forget how to drive 5 speed. Hehehe.

That's a bummer the FDC wasn't showing for you. I wouldn't want to press any buttons in a car I was unfamiliar with either, I'd be afraid I'd mess something up.

Insights = awesome, car share = even more awsome, Insight as part of a car share = the most awesome! ...unless there is some EV car share out there. ;)