Honda CR-Z (2010 - ) - officially announced

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Wed 13 Jan 2010 12:27
officially announced - Sulphur Man
www.parkers.co.uk/News/New-Cars/First-look-Honda-C.../

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The new CR-Z has been finally unveiled at the Detroit motor show, due 'Summer 2010'.

Interesting that its an IMA car, not a 'full' hybrid, so unable to run on leccy alone. In many ways, not dissimilar to the original mk1 Insight, with a manual gearbox.

Power seems puny and no official performance figures from Honda yet. That said, if it can hold the road like an old Ford Puma did (lovely handling car) then it will win some friends.

Before someone else says it, yes, a turbo-diesel Scirocco would probably go further and faster than this. So the main debate must be, whats the point of it? Quite a pretty design though, imo.

SM

Edited by Dynamic Dave on 13/01/2010 at 15:18

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Wed 13 Jan 2010 12:36
officially announced - daveyjp
"So the main debate must be, whats the point of it?"

In the UK possibly little point as we buy diesels, in the US lots of points.
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