Honda Insight Earns Us Insurance Institute for Highway Safety "Top Safety Pick" Award for 2009

TULLAMARINE, AUSTRALIA – August 19, 2009: The 2010 Honda Insight EX earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) 2009 TOP SAFETY PICK Award, the organisation's highest honor. The annual award recognises vehicles that do the best job of protecting vehicle occupants involved in front, side, and rear impacts based on ratings in IIHS tests.

"Fuel economy and safety have always been part of Honda's DNA," said Erik Berkman, Vice President of Corporate Planning and Logistics. "The Insight EX is a great example of an affordable vehicle that receives a high rating for safety."

Honda operates two of the world's most sophisticated crash test laboratories with the objective of developing the highest level of safety design and technology. The Tochigi, Japan, facility was the world's first indoor omni-directional car-to-car crash testing facility and the Honda R&D America's Raymond, Ohio, development centre performs testing on all U.S.-developed models.