I’ve heard the Insight described as looking like a probe or a computer mouse, but never a tadpole. I think that’s the winner, and now that you’ve said it, I can’t unsee it. Good call.

These are great suggestions (especially Valkyria Chronicles), and I would add the Disgaea series (I prefer 5) and Into the Breach, which are diametric opposites and highly complementary from a time sink/depth perspective.

I will own one of these before I die, FULL STOP. I would only add that I believe the NSX had a targa top, not T-tops, on the NSX-T variants, but I personally like targa tops better anyway.

I owned a (stock) 2001 in Sebring blue with blue leather and loved it. The sound it makes as it approaches the redline sounds like a banshee having an orgasm and can only be truly appreciated with the top down. It has some neat quirks as well, like a Start/Stop button that only works once you’ve turned a physical key…

These didn’t impress me much when I was younger, but as I get older my appreciation for luxury touring cars has grown markedly. I think the SC430 has aged very well and, being a Lexus, would likely be a viable collector without too much on the maintenance/restoration front. Until I can afford an LC (which is on the…

I owned one, and they are great. Not too fast off the line, but they dart around like a go-kart and have, what is in my opinion, the best convertible top mechanism ever (it’s manual, can be done with one hand, and doubles as a tonneau cover when retracted). There are a few caveats: the stereo is anemic and can barely…

Good question, and one I actually don’t know the answer to. I did a quick search and it looks like there are quite a few posts on the Honda Insight Forum around rebuilding/refurbishing the battery. Should I ever come to own one someday, that is definitely something I would need to seriously consider doing.

I like weird, quirky cars, and none fits the bill more than the first-gen Honda Insight. It looks like a car you would see in a movie that takes place “in the future”, all while returning an EPA-estimated 60+ MPG. Plus, it’s one of the few hybrids that could be had in a manual (the only other I can think of is the…

I already know how this is going to go over, but hear me out. I like the Cybertruck. Not because I think it’s good, or useful for its intended purpose, or because it will live up to even a fraction of the claims Tesla makes about it (of which they are as myriad as they are absurd). No, I like it because it’s…

It will make an appearance in the show as a pop-culture easter egg. Kyle MacLachlan’s Overseer Hank will have a picture on his desk of a young man standing next to a nice, shiny Corvega, which he’ll explain was his great-great grandfather and his car back when he was the mayor of pre-war Portland, Oregon.

The Rolls Royce Phantom VII looks like it’s concentrating really hard on what it will present at the next board meeting while taking some much needed “me time” on the toilet.

Anyone remember the toy cars from Burnout: Paradise, how they were the squished compact version of the regular cars? From the side profile, this looks like the toy car version of a CTS.

With the ICE Camaro on the way out, it probably makes sense to give it the vintage EV treatment. Sure beats the Camaro EV SUV that GM probably has planned for us.

A drastic decrease in noise pollution is one of the things I most look forward to with the transition to EVs. Good thing Stellantis and their “Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust” system will be around to bring me back to reality.

Maybe I’ve become disconnected to what “affordable” means, but $47k+ is not a ballpark number that comes to my mind.

Aptera, currently on life support, sure doesn’t seem like they will live out the year. They’ve been kicking around that two-seat, three-wheel EV since 2006, and even liquidated once back in 2011. I have the sneaking suspicion that, even if they were to somehow, by some miracle, launch this year, it won’t be enough to…

Maybe this is commonplace and not unique to my car or model, but I have a 7th gen Toyota Camry and the digital speedometer doesn’t match the analog one (unless I’m stopped, of course) and it drives me absolutely nuts. Which one is correct? Do I just go the conservative route and pick the analog since it seems to be ~2…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: in white, this thing is a dead ringer for a Dove Beauty Bar (not a compliment).

The 3rd gen Mitsubishi Eclipse did not age particularly well, especially coming from the far more desiable 2nd gen. With homely looks and more body side rib molding than an early 2000's Pontiac, I can’t see this being highly sought after now or ever. For a car model that helped launch the whole aftermarket parts…

Who needs Viagra when your car can give you this much wood?