What I’m about to say is grounded in a profound love of the Honda Motor Company, but I’m struggling to remember a car from the last 10 years that was more disappointing than the Honda CR-Z. Early concepts promised a hybrid hot-hatch that was supposed to pick up where the CR-X of the 1980s left off. What we got was a spindly looking coupe with thoroughly underwhelming performance numbers. If that wasn’t bad enough, it also got worse fuel mileage than the non-hybrid CR-X HF from 1986. About the only thing it had going for it was its six-speed manual. Where was the progress?
Now, here I am getting my hopes up again. Australia’s Motoring has caught wind of a new, more performance-focused CR-Z that could land in dealerships in two years. A source within Honda’s R&D center in Tochigi, Japan told Motoring that the next CR-Z will borrow styling cues from the upcoming NSX supercar and will be powered by the 306 horsepower, turbocharged 2.0-liter VTEC from the Civic Type R. This sounds like something I could get behind.
Continue reading to learn more about the next Honda CR-Z.
Next Honda CR-Z Will Be Inspired By The NSX; Get Type R's Engine originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 12 March 2015 07:00 EST.
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