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Originally Posted by pete c
As for the ultimate insight, I think honda's original 5 speed is awesome. It provides a nice balance, but, as with most things, balance means it doesn't do a particular thing extremely well.
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But most of us - ok, some of us - don't live lives that involve doing only one particular thing. On a hot day, I can get close to 100 mpg on the flat road into town, but I can also drive up the mountain on a snowy winter day to go skiing, or ford streams on dirt roads out in the desert.
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Does anyone know how many watts it takes to push an insight down the road at 65 mph. I think 3KW might do it.
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I worked it out as about 17 HP, from the fact that it'll hold about 65 mph on a 6% downgrade.