FS Citrus Yellow 5 Speed Insight w/cruise

This is kinda the key here. If you look at the 3 major "book" sources this car comes in between 5500-6K. Right now, most cars aren't even bringing book values, so getting 40% over book is pretty difficult. If you find the right guy, you may get it though, you never know.
GL

 

seems to me like he is trying to "flip" it

 

As Insight owners you should know that these cars don't follow the NADA pricing guidelines.As for me trying to "flip it" my e-bay ad explained the fact that after I bought the car I was informed that I would soon be out of a job.As a result that is the only reason that I am selling it.I also have another Insight that I bought last year for more than I am selling this one for.If you aren't interested that is fine, but negative comments without knowing me are unkind and wrong.I am not gonna debate this and if the car doesn't sell than I will have to keep it and hope I can get a new job.Thanks for your support.

 

just stating my opinion

 

I can vouch for the pricing stuff... When I bought mine the bank wouldn't give me the full amount (it was X - $1500) asked for the car because they didn't think it was worth that much based on original price, age, and number of miles. For a normal vehicle this would have been fine. For a production run of less than 14000 vehicles over the entire 6yrs of sales... not so much.

Looks like a nice car and has low miles for its age (I'm approaching it in my 2002 right now). If it can't be sold now I'm sure it will sell once the economy recovers and fuel prices start ratcheting up again. I hope you can find another job soon, ArmadaMan!

 

Thank you Right Lane Cruiser....by the way, two posts below mine a woman named Judy is selling her 2002 with 9,000 miles for $17-$19 OBO....Judy if I had the money right now I'd snap up your car in a second.To own an Insight is to love an Insight.I drove from Everett,WA to Yellowstone Park....300 miles around the park and Grand Tetons and then through Big Horn monument with 9,000 foot tall Granite Pass and all the way back to Michigan at 80mph speeds.Spent $108 on gas and love my car more than ever.I'm more than happy to take the jokes and criticism that comes from those that don't get it.When gas hits $7.00 maybe they will. 2,800miles for $108 not tooo shabby

 

Wayne, thanks for your post. I wasn't being critical at all by making my post, i was just trying to help. I have bought, sold and owned over 85 cars in my life, so i do have a little bit of 'non professional' experience. The market is very soft right now, but if the right buyer comes along and your insight"rings his bell", then you may do OK. I sincerely wish you luck with the sale.

 

With only 14,000 being sold the Insight-I is somewhat of a "special market" collector's item. If not now, it may be in 5-10 years. So I agree with Wayne that they should be treated as something special.

But the other thought is that the number of units sold doesn't mean too much. For any model, the mfr sells ALL of what is produced. Even something horrible like the Aztek. Maybe at discount, but ALL of them sell. So the number sold is mainly an indication of how many the mfr wants to produce (though this may be affected by demand obviously). So if a mfr decides to limit production for various reasons (and limit advertising as well), then the number sold will be low. I suspect that in this case Honda produced a limited number of Insight-I's in order to limit Honda's liability for battery-IMA problems in what was uncharted territory for them.