My husband has to go a steep mountain every day for work. We need something to get better gas milage, and keep wondering about this. We drove one at a dealer, but they won't let us take it home to try the mountain. You can't really tell just driving around the city. He is wondering if it has the pep to make it up and if he might get stuck in the winter. We are leery about the new Insight and are afraid of the cost of the parts for that. Right now we have an old CRV and get 23 mpg with that, but with the price of gas starting to go up again we need to think longer term. We need more storage room so a Civic is out of the question. Thanks for any input!