Carz review: Honda CR-Z Hybrid 2010

Posted on March 14, 2010
Filed Under Honda, Hybrid Cars, New Car Review, News

The Honda CR-Z is an unlikely hero for Honda, the car, again, at least a little of its sporty image after his retirement from F1 and could AXING both the NSX supercar project and the S2000.

The Honda CR-Z is a hybrid sports coupe, the first car to get with this kind of power to a six-speed manual transmission with. His style is of strategic information from the CR-X from the early 1980s, but it looks too modern. In fact, what is appealing about this coupe that looks like nothing else on the road, it is immediately recognizable as the Honda CR-Z. Honda CR-Z Hybrid 2010.

Sits on a slightly shorter but wider Insight platform that uses the CR-Z, which fell from a wheelbase 115mm, while it has also lost is 30mm in height and 44kg lighter.

The CR-Z is not only employ a revised version of the platform of the Insight, its Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) system and Insight, a modified rear suspension set-up. Want to improve performance, replace the Insight Engineers 1.3-liter gasoline engine with the 1.5-liter i-VTEC engine from the Jazz, so that a revised six-speed transmission of the European-spec 1, 8-liter Civic lifted estimated.

The combined performance of the CR-Z hybrid system is min 122bhp at 6,000 rpm, while a combined torque 128lb ft at 1,500 rpm. Our Japan-spec car offered a combined 58mpg. Oh, and incidentally, the CR-Z still employs nickel-metal hydride batteries. Honda CR-Z Hybrid 2010.
What is it?

Slip into the driver’s seat and you will be how much deeper you sit in the CR-Z as a Insight sense. There’s plenty of headroom for the driver to 194cm, but remember, the rear seats, which would fight in the possession of a 12-year-old. Interior trim and quality are higher than those of Insight, and the instrumentation provides more design flair. Flatten the rear seats and make 401 liters of cargo, enough for a couple of suitcases or two golf bags. Honda CR-Z Hybrid 2010.

The IMA system offers three driving modes: Sport, which uses the electric motor to accelerate aid and normal and econ reduce the throttle response retard on fuel consumption and less emissions.

The first thing you notice is the CR-Z’s beefy bottom-end torque. Min with a maximum torque on tap from just 1500 rpm, the coupe springs from rest and reaches 60mph in 9sec how the 6300rpm redline clear in seconds. It is much faster than the Insight. Honda CR-Z Hybrid 2010.

Hold min the engine spinning between 4000rpm and 6000 rpm, and the CR-Z is a right-foot extension to reward, the specially tuned throaty exhaust increases the new sports hybrid experience.

After all three modes, we found ourselves leaving the CR-Z sports, but also provides faster response at low and high speeds, and adjusts the characteristics of this car perfect.

With world-beating manual transmission, as in the S2000, NSX Type R and Civic, the CR-Z had a lot to live up to. And thanks to some inspired revision of the gearbox, the European Civic Forum, which provides six-speed CR-Z’s wonderfully short throws and a firm, precise link action.

Honda particular attention to the disc. It is rated excellent, has an excellent feel and are in for a penny. With increased stiffness of the entire chassis and body, a significant revision of the torsion bar set-up is on the rear suspension combined a further reason why the car handled and rode a good thing. The CR-Z is stiff, but compliant. Honda CR-Z Hybrid 2010.

The CR-Z, the main hydraulic braking system, and it uses regenerative braking assist only as a “mechanism. The result is refreshing, in contrast to the current crop of hybrids, offering to provide a slightly synthetic feel, the CR-Z sure-footed braking any time. Honda CR-Z Hybrid 2010.
Should I buy?

Honda believes that it has launched the coupe at the right time in life, and it can be a point. With its low-lying, sporty design, high interior quality, good performance and fuel economy, high gearing and low price, should the CR-Z spice up interest in hybrid, power and a wider cross-section of heeding the motoring public to this type of vehicle. Look up to the high performance Mugen version in 2011.

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