Honda recently unveiled the Honda Insight Prototype,
which is the production 2019 Honda Insight in all but name. Launching in the US
later this year, the Insight is now a sleek “premium compact” sedan positioned
above the Civic. There’s no hybrid in the current Civic generation, so the new
Insight will play that role.
The Insight uses Honda’s new family face with a
prominent “flying wing” chrome bar and a U-shaped grille attached to it. If the
front end is typically modern Honda, the rear end of the Insight is more of a
new look for the brand, with wraparound tail lamps that cut deep into the boot
lid. The organically-shaped lamps have an LED outline, not unlike what Korean carmakers
have been doing previously.
With both the new Accord and Insight sedans sporting
this face, we better get used to it as the new Honda look. How would Honda’s
smallest sedan look like if it would adopt this design template? No need to
imagine, because we got Theophilus Chin to render a Honda City with
Insight-inspired front and rear ends.
Grafted on is the Insight’s face, but with the
defining full-length “wing” chrome bar more integrated and less prominent, more like that on the Civic FC and new Accord. There’s also less
of a “big forehead” here compared to the Insight.
Cr : Paultan
