Honda Insight to be launched in China

According to Honda’s management team at the Shanghai Auto Show, Honda are still keen to launch hybrid models into the Chinese market, despite the bombing of the Honda Civic Hybrid and also its rival, the Toyota Prius in China.

The Insight is set to launch in China in 2012 according to early media reports, although no pricing has yet been given, it could be around the 200,000rmb marker.

Honda are still keen to show their hybrid wares in China as a means to showing that they are up with the latest technology and are at the forefront of the automotive industry.

Picture from CarAdvice.com.au

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Ash came to China at 18 on a whim and never left. Some 10 years later he collected a degree and a family along the way and now focuses his time on watching the Chinese car industry develop. He has witnessed the market change from being minor backyard market in to the world's biggest and most important market for all car manufacturers. You can contact or connect with him via Linkedin by clicking the 'Website' link.