When honda came out with the 2010 insight its body is the same as the toyota prius. why?

you would think that honda would want to separate itself from toyotas hybrid car and have a different body style.When honda came out with the 2010 insight its body is the same as the toyota prius. why?Because it's the most aerodynamic body style so far, as for gas mileage goes. Look at the Chevrolet Volt it also resembles the same body style but with a small trunk: http://www.gotbroken.com/wp-content/uplo鈥?/a> It's a plug-in hybrid from Chevrolet that's supposed to get over 230 mpg and will be on sale later this year.When honda came out with the 2010 insight its body is the same as the toyota prius. why?You can't really change the appearance and still have good aerodynamics. As the other posters have indicated all aerodynamic cars look pretty much the same because you can't cheat physics if you're going for the least amount of drag. This goes right back to the 1955 Citroen ID and later DS models. The main difference is that the engineers of the fifties didn't know about the Kamm effect so the back was teardrop shaped rather than cut off.When honda came out with the 2010 insight its body is the same as the toyota prius. why?As it happens, cars of this size with superior aerodynamics tend to look alike: wedge and/or teardrop starting at the front, cutting off sharply in the back. Even non-hybrids tend to have shapes along these lines nowadays.