I can't believe it's been almost five and a half years, but I posted about alignment affecting fuel economy. I bring it up because nobody has mentioned it yet.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...car-12358.html
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Almost a 7.5% drop in setting from zero toe to 1/8" toe in just the front.
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At 60mph!
Using the calculator here, rolling resistance with a driver on a first gen Insight is approximately 25% of total drag at sixty miles per hour. If I'm doing this right, that's an increase of rolling resistance of 30%.
What I'm getting at is that an older car with specs for toe in, possibly while being misaligned and maybe having worn parts could really wreck your coasting.
I agree with the other posts regarding high drag and low weight as well.