He is involved in import drag racing, and currently pilots a 2006 Honda Insight in the pro stock ranks of IDRA (battle of the imports), IDRC and CMI series.
2005-06 Honda Insight CVT, $1,450 (purchased on/before 12/31/07) / $725 (purchased 1/1/08-6/30/08) / $362.50 (purchased 7/1/08-12/31/08) / $0 (purchased on or after 1/1/09)
Takanezawa was once home of the Honda R&D Plant that hand-crafted the 1990-2004 model year NSX, 1999-2003 model year S2000, and 2000-2004 model year Insight.
Honda | Honda Accord | Honda Insight | Honda Civic | Honda S2000 | Honda Civic Tour | Honda CB750 | La Honda, California | Honda NSX | Honda Center | La Honda | Insight Venture Partners | Honda, Tolima | Honda Point Disaster | Honda Masanobu | Honda CBR250R | Insight Meditation Society | Insight Enterprises | Honda's | Honda Heat | Honda CR-V | 2005 Insight Bowl | Tohru Honda | Soichiro Honda | KV Racing's #5 car at the 2008 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg | Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit | Insight Journal | Honda Wave series | Honda VT250 | Honda Vamos |
Partially because of the renewed interest in the Metro, the July 2009 issue of Car and Driver included a base model 1998 Chevrolet Metro 3-door hatchback among vehicles tested for fuel efficiency alongside two hybrid models: the redesigned Honda Insight and Toyota Prius models.
The AP1 was manufactured up to 2003 at Honda's Takanezawa plant, alongside the Honda NSX and Honda Insight hybrid.