In the EU fuel economy tests, the Insight achieved a combined efficiency figure with an Extra-Urban figure of and Urban figure of .) This remains unbeaten in the UK market for a petrol car. The Insight has an official emissions figure of 80 g/km which is still the lowest of any UK market car. It was also the only car to fall into the VED band A (up to 100g/km ), introduced in 2005, until 2008 when other manufacturers started developing cars to benefit from the tax free status.