Honda’s Revamped Hybrid Coming; Just Under $20K

The Honda Insight is coming back from the dead, and at just under $20,000, or a smidge less than a Prius.

The Insight, Honda’s take on a sedan hybrid, will make a return on March 24. The new version will get 43 miles per gallon on the highway and 40 in the city for a blended 41 miles per gallon. The new Insight is based around the design of the FCX Clarity, a hydrogen car that will likely never go into mass production. (But now you know at least those millions of dollars in research weren’t wasted.).

The LX version starts at $19,800. The EX versions sell for $21,000 to $23,000. The Prius starts at $22,000.

Honda first released the Insight in 2000. However, the car—which sort of had the Art Deco lines of a space ship from the golden age of Hollywood—was quickly outpaced by the ever-improving Toyota Prius. In 2006, Honda took it to a farm where it could play with the Studebaker Avanti and other cars.