The biggest best way that it is better is MPG. Lots of folks are reporting really low mileage on their first couple tanks but so far my HCH is doing great. After about 30 miles of driving the game gauge says 56, which is great! The stereo is quite nice compaired to an Insight's. The Insight's radio is a joke while the HCH stereo has a nice, rich, full sound. One cool/weird thing is that it lacks an ash tray, which I think is great.

The magnisum metallic color is much lighter than I expected but is still quite pretty. It is far closer to silver than charcoal.

There are a couple things that my Vette has spoiled me on so on those items the HCH comes up a bit lacking. The Vette has a great 6 speed with short throws and a very precise shifter. The Honda has a typical small car shifter that feels mushy and cheap. The shifter is fine, I've had no trouble finding gears or making the car go in gear, it just feels a bit wimpy.

The other thing that I don't like about the HCH is the MPG display. The Vette has an entire row of buttons that allow it to display a variety of different information including average MPG per trip down to tenths, instant mileage down to tenths and tire pressure. The HCH is lacking in this department and that is the biggest disapointment because hybrids are suppose to be mileage kings. The HCH's display only has one button and the same button is used to move between displays and to reset, depending on how long the button is pushed. The Civic's display does show trip mileage down to tenths but it does not update often and it does not seem to ever jump in tenths. It seems to always jump several tenths at a time. The instant MPG display is the most disappointing feature. The Vett's realtime display is very helpful in fine tuning for maxium mileage. All the HCH has for a real time display is a small bar graph with 5 MPG increments.

Even with the hard to see instant MPG bar graph I'm getting the mileage I wanted so I'm happy overall (so far).