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A key Honda official has rejected claims the firm has tried to mimic the design of the Toyota Prius with its Insight.

New versions of both hybrid cars have recently gone on sale and, in Japan, the Insight has been criticised for its design similarities to the Prius.

“We don't think it looks like the Prius at all,” said Nobuki Ebisawa, managing director at Honda R&D. “There may be some similarities in the roof line, but it is clearly different.”

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Well, neither of them are exactly lookers are they. The real difference is price and technology, and the Honda is much simpler, and cheaper, although in the UK no where near as much cheaper as we were let to believe. At least if you bought either, no one would miss the point that you had bought a hybrid!