Ride like a BMW?
 

Somewhere here I read the car ain't no BMW, Audi etc in the ride department. LOL.
Yes it is- have owned many of them and the BMW 5 copy the Lincoln LS V8 included. I'd say the little Insight rides exactly like them.
Taunt, stiff, choppy, and so on. You ride over stuff, you don't absorb any of it. Now handling, yeah it won't cut razor sharp slices in the curves, but it has that German over sprung feel going on.

The car is what it is, I'm not a favorite of tauntness as on long trips it gets tiring. But driving by the gas pumps makes up for it.