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Honda’s new Insight hybrid vehicle has been on sale in the U.S. for just over a week but demand for the car is already pushing production at the company’s Suzuka plant in Japan to the limits. Sales of the Insight in Japan are already triple what Honda had hoped for and with predictions of up to 100,000 sales in the U.S. alone, Honda will have no choice but to increase production.

Unfortunately, Honda can only build about 600 Insights per day and half of these are already destined for the U.S.

2009 Honda Insight Hybrid

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