Honda Civic CR-X Hatchback Sedan Sport Car

For years the Honda name is synonymous with sports, exercise and F1, but unfortunately after the death of its founder, Soichiro Honda, and the inevitable wave by talented engineers, who were forced to retire, Honda soon the ‘sports’ lost value but a real sports-oriented vehicle left the lineup, the Civic Type-R.

For years we, gentlemen drivers, hoping that Honda would suggest the vehicle is designed to show the world again, and finally it seems that we have heard, or so we thought. Marketed as the first sport Hybrid, Honda CR-Z is just disappointing, when you hope the thrill of driving “sports” car. Yes, of course, the appearance of the CR-Z is mean enough to call a real sports car, but unfortunately, here too, look can be deceiving.

Unfortunately it is not as beautiful as the concept was introduced in 2007, however, the CR-Z is a kind of “presence”, which just makes our cars out of the crowd. We personally like our NihonCar CR-Z’s new nose gives the whole design of a futuristic land speeder. Yes, design is by far our car is the most successful and may even be only one.

Interior.
We may sound like an old broken record on this, but almost all Honda cars we have ever run our car interior does not give the same excitement as its exterior. Better than the JDM Odyssey, CR-Z interior, but simply lack of identity, adding that it is doubtful plastic and un-ergonomic center console with limited space for your personal belongings and the odd “Cable” just popping it to the needs of our car GPS and its Internavi module.

With the unfortunately designed interior, the CR-Z on the other hand, very comfortable, at least for front passengers! Sold as a 2 +2, the CR-Z does not seem to us as a family-oriented car, and unfortunately, if you lost two legs in a tragic accident, and frankly, we would never make such horrible things you encounter, you may be able to use any of the these two places behind him. I’m not a tall man, just 1.72 meters tall, but once you sit behind the wheel, even my three year old daughter is no leg room, he sat behind me.

On the Road.
Let’s put it simply, “sports”, focusing on the CR-Z gives, at best, tedious journey. Now if you compare the CR-Z compact underpowered car, yes, yes, the CR-Z will thrill you look at the management fast car, but if you’ve ever driven a real sports car, and by that I do not think it necessarily Fancy Gallardo or even the Honda S2000, but say that simple in his Subaru Impreza S-GT 2L version, you, like us, trying to figure out why the “Sport” mode on the CR-Z is not effective at all, and if you do not run last 10 minutes with the parking brake. I’m sure you’ll see faster rev to its limits when you switch from “Normal” mode on “Sport” mode, the 1.5-liter engine iVTEC (124Hp) groal also much more, but still it will be much “sport” that you get.

As you may have figured it out, the CR-Z sports car is not as-is, but marketing-like Jedi Mind Tricks, focusing on “Sport” see the line in the car instead of his net “engine” power. Of course you can argue that the CR-Z will go fast, yeah, like any other car when you give them enough time and the road ahead of him, but still expect something really amazing here. Really! The only good place in the management of CR-Z is enjoying a well balanced car to offer an acceptable standard swing … Be a hybrid, of course, adds some weight to the car, but also helps distribute weight evenly and provides more stable and safe car.

Let us now focus on other aspects of the CR-Z is the selling point is a “hybrid”, part … Like her older sister in the Insight, CR-Z performance differently than other “hybrid” and working on only one type: gasoline with electric assist. Also using Start-Stop function, the CR-Z, and the Insight offers a different approach to the hybrid world. On a technical stand point, it’s Honda’s hybrid approach to global media and is no worse or better than what is offered to other manufacturers. It’s just different. The importance of this at some point where the car is in motion, even small, your engine, and personally, it just destroys your own hybrid entertainment. As I really missed the EV or electric vehicle options are available for Toyota, while the drive CR-Z, and despite the fact that I drove a hybrid car do not want to save the Earth, every time my CR-Z was in motion.

Dimension are hybrid CR-Z, the difference? Well, we’re not sure, because we could not test the car enough to get a clear idea about this topic … We managed to reach 550 km mark with the CR-Z during our testing and to be fair, we are quite wild in the CR-Z to test its “raw” power. We believe that the 500 and 600 km is what you should expect from any CR-Z under normal driving conditions. Of course you can always push the limits even further, if you go slow / slow on the road without AC and running alone, but what would make sense to do it?