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On Monday we presented this week’s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence it came. The presence of the 1990s Honda shift knob helped several of you recognize the car as a 2000 Honda Insight. The first commenter to correctly identify it was DEM, who specified both the year and the model and will receive a Save the Manuals button and sticker as a reward.
The Insight pictured here is from our January 2000 issue. At the Insight’s press launch, Honda set up a fuel-economy contest among automotive magazines that would vie for top mpg honors during a run from Columbus, Ohio, to Detroit. We handily won this competition with the, erm, creative use of a Ford Excursion modified to serve as a rolling wind break. The photo of the front of the Insight below was taken from the cargo area of the Excursion. Our trip mileage? We squeezed 121.7 mpg out of the tiny hybrid at an average speed of 58 mph.
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