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Environmentally Friendly With Honda and Nissan!
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Hartford Honda Dealership is now carrying the all new, 2011 Honda Insight. It was ranked number 24 out of 33 Affordable Small Cars. It is powered by an Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) system, which has an electric motor that creates acceleration power and produces like a generator to charge the battery during braking or coasting. The Insights four cylinder engine and Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), helps conserve fuel.
The Insight, from Warwick Honda Dealership, comes with a pretty decent protection package. It consists of three years or 36,000 mile basic warranty and a five year or 60,000 mile powertrain warranty. Honda also covers the Insights Integrated Motor Assist battery pack with a warranty, but you will have to check with your local dealer to find out the length. The Insight also did very well on crash tests. They received five stars in front and side drive crash tests and four stars in front passenger, side rear passenger and rollover two-wheel drive crash tests. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the Insight it’s highest ranking of “Good” in front offset and side impact crash tests. It also comes with a long list of safety features. Some of them include; anti-lock brakes with electronic brake distribution, multiple threshold front airbags, front side airbags, LATCH, vehicle stability assist and side curtain airbags.
Another environmentally friendly vehicle to check out, would be the 2011 Nissan Leaf, which can be purchased at Worcester Nissan Dealer. It was
ranked number 2 out of 9 Upscale Small Cars. It comes with a 107 horsepower electric motor that gets it’s power from a 90-kilowatt lithium-ion battery pack. When the batteries are fully charged, the Leaf is estimated to get 73 miles per charge with climate and driving conditions taken into consideration. However, as long as you don’t use the heater, the air conditioner and it is great weather outside, the Leaf should get 106/92 miles per charge city/highway.
Nissan has equipped the Leaf with a pretty basic protection package. It consists of three years or 36,000 mile basic warranty, a sixty year or 60,000 mile powertrain warranty and the lithium-ion battery is covered for ninety six years or 100,000 miles. There hasn’t been any crash tests done on the Leaf, but it does come with a long list of safety features. Some of them include; Nissan’s Advanced Airbag System with dual-stage supplemental front airbags, driver and front passenger seat mounted side impact supplemental airbags and roof mounted side impact supplemental airbags. The Leaf also comes with Vehicle Dynamic Control, Traction Control System, Electronic Brake-force Distribution, Brake Assist, four-wheel anti-lock brakes, a tire pressure monitoring system and LATCH.
Both of these vehicles are great for the environment and would be wonderful to own. Go to your local Honda and Nissan dealership and test drive one or two. I am sure one of the two places will have exactly what you are looking for.