Carz review: Honda CR-Z Hybrid 2010

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.

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Today’s Supercar: Porsche Boxster Spyder 2010 first look

This is the new Porsche Boxster Spyder and how the arrival of a new Porsche tends to a polarizing event, you are either a sigh of disgust and barking with joy. The bare facts? This Boxster Porsche Spyder is the easiest and fastest current gen sports roadster thanks to the soft top is thrown away.

The Spyder is to be unveiled at the LA Auto Show in December 2009, and it is not a run-out in limited edition as with previous Spyder’s Boxster, but the third (and most expensive) permanent addition to the roadster range.

This is the new Porsche Boxster Spyder does not have a hood?
Well it does. Sort of. To create the Porsche Spyder, the folding roof has binned, and all associated mechanical and in its place comes a piece of cloth that lays on the windshield and hooks on the new rear deck. Even with the side windows and the glass wind deflector take place, there are still some gaps left by the wind in. It’s only for low-speed driving meant – Porsche quotes the 166mph top speed without a roof. Screaming to be heard at, we suppose.

And that the new rear deck?
It is the most striking difference between the Spyder and a standard Boxster – there is now a great pair of power domes behind the rear seats and a larger rear spoiler. Further improvements are revised site host, a new front fascia and the retro label.

The interior gets some fancy moves from the door, the GT3 RS and weight-saving carbon bucket. Sports suspension, a lower center of gravity and – at a relatively trim 1275kg – 80kg weight is an advantage compared to a Boxster S should Spyder Boxster at the sharpest.

And with an extra 10bhp from the engine – where the sum of the 3.4-liter six-cylinder 316bhp – and the Spyder is two tenths faster than a normal 62mph S, knocking the benchmark sprint in 4.8 seconds .

Porsche PDK options like Normal, SAT-NAV, and ceramic brakes are available, the sticker is an option to “Delete”, and customers should also change the situation, the hardcore sites for more convenience-oriented products. UK sales begin in February 2010 with prices at £ 44,643, more than a few large Boxster S to be a want?

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VW Polo Review 2009 – STAR CARS 2009 Series 1 (City Cars and Superminis)

Price starting from: £8000 (est)

On Sale: Winter

Why so Great ? Classy image, interior quality, residual value

The new Volkswagen Polo’s launch is so secret even company insiders are reduced to talking in whispers when releasing snippets of informations. While that doesn’s give us much to go on, it does hint at the level of expectation surrounding the car.

What we do know is that VW is tackling the Polo’s shortcomings head-on. VW Polo 2009. The current car may benefit from a wide engine range and cushy ride, but it is held back by an uninspiring drive, bland cabin and high price tags.

Although nobody is expecting prices to drop, you should get a lot more for your money. The new VW Polo will be based on the same underpinnings as Seat’s Ibiza, which handles and rides pretty well.

Styling is expected to follow along the same lines as the Golf Mk VI, which means an evolution of the familiar rather than something too radical.

VW Polo 2009 The engine range will get an overhaul, with VW’s cleaner, more powerful units being introduced, including the 1.4-litre TFSI petrol motor and the new 1.6 turbo-diesel.

A Bluemotion version of the car is rumored to be powered by 1.2 TDI, with emissions of just 89g/km of CO2. However, this is likely to follow a few months after the initial launch pushing it into 2010.

A 1.0 petrol could go on sale as part of VW’s eco-drive, although such a unit was originally thought to be reserved for the Up city car project, in the pipeline for 2011 or beyond. VW’s double-clutch DSG gearbox is also expected to be offered on some models, reducing emissions and fuel consumption further, and giving the car a sportier feel.

Here are our VW Polo 2009 Review – STAR CARS 2009 Series 1 (City Cars and Superminis) , again want to say anything? Just shout it out here. Next STAR Cars will be funky Nissan Cube 2009, welcome back to check it out in a short period.

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VW UP Hot or Not Review

I thought your guys have already heard of the rumors about the VW UP. Today we will go through a bit more details about this Volkswagen’s new baby VW UP, I hope soon we will have the answers in our mind.
From the design to the production, it has been switch from rear- to front-engined due to the cost issue. As we all known that in the New Small Family (NSF), the template setting by the revolution new Toyota iQ is the most cost-effective one.

Why the front-engined VW UP more efficient?
In the R&D and procurement department costs alone, VW insiders said they have already slash €400m (£320m) from the bill. In addiction to that greater economies of scale, and a further €350m (£280) will roll off the cash register for reducing the investments in tooling and greater production flexibility.

This strategic handbrake turn indeed is an accountant’s dream. However, it delays the titch tiny VW Up show up by a full year.

How is the new production look like?
You might have thought that the redesign will change the outlook of the new baby VW UP. However, the U-turn has negligible the effect on the well received design. People impressions reveal how the three door production NSF should look and it has been compiled with the help of inside source at the VW’s design centre.
By shifting the engine to the front means a slightly longer nose. Well placed design sources suggest the snout stretches to 50mm longer, but insist the overall effect is the same.
Thanks to the original NSF concept already had a front-mounted radiator for even weight distribution, so there is no need for larger or repositioned air intake or suchlike.

The NSF will be offered to three key markets: Europe, South America and India. As ever in a numbers obsessed market, the VW Up project will be shared around the VW Group, but the VW mother ship will be the only brand to get all three body styles.
Expect this three-door, plus five-door and Space Up! MPV versions if you wander into a VW dealer; Skoda will offer only the five-door; and Seat will sell three- and five-door hatches only.
Bundle those together and you see the financial argument behind the NSF. A combined total of 500,000 cars will be built in a full year. This small car will lead to a big business.

What’s the price of the NSF VW UP?
VW is targeting prices between €5500 (£4500) and €9000 (£7000), depending on, body style, market and specification. Further more, we find it hard to believe that VW won’t go the luxury route in Europe, as Toyota and Smart do with their city cars.

However sadly, the engineering redesign has pushed back first assembly into 2011.

More features on Engine and etc:
VW is planning to offer a choice of three different three cylinder engines for its VW up models. It is still not quite sure whether there will be a bespoke 1.0-litre unit or whether the Up will adopt the existing 1.2 litre 16 valve version from current small VW versions. For sure is that the VW Up will have a 400kg pay load, a 35-litre fuel tank and 155/65R14 rubber.

In each case, the maximum power output of this small baby is 60 bhp and top torque is 80 lb ft. Next speed up the pecking order is a turbo charged edition rated at 86 bhp and 120 lb ft. The only diesel earmarked for the new small VW is a 1.2 litre common rail engine which develop 75 bhp and 135 lb ft.

A five-speed manual is standard on the production of VW Up, but the stronger petrol unit could alternatively be combined with a dual-clutch gearbox. The target fuel consume figures are 65.8 mpg for the petrol engined model (95 g/km of CO2) and 94.7 mpg for the TDI model (75 g/km of CO2).
Although the project’s delay would allow VW to make the city car part of the new group-wide MQB family, the Up is all about being bargain basement. So a more radical engineering solution is required: less weight, fewer components and reduced flexibility.

For instance, instead of having to develop a brand-new rear suspension, VW can fit the front-wheel drive Up with a simplified version of the same compound axle that is fitted to the current Polo.

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