2011 Honda CR-Z

Honda CR-Z

Honda CR-Z The navigation system is very old, with poor-quality resolution. The bottom line: Although it's a fun, low-power car with sharp looks, the 2011 Honda CR-Z gains little from its hybrid system, and its cabin tech is barely average.

With the 2011 Honda CR-Z, Honda attempts to reintroduce the Japanese sports car, giving it a green edge to make it more welcome in a newly energy-conscious market. Looking at fuel economy and power output numbers, Honda's hybrid system offers little advantage over a high-revving, low-displacement pure gas engine.

Honda gives the Honda CR-Z a futuristic dashboard that should appeal to the marquee’s fans. This navigation system is, essentially, the same equipment Honda has been offering for many years.
The CR-Z's voice command system is also a relic of Honda's past, but as that system was cutting-edge when it came out, it still holds its own against competitors. The phone system shows more recent technology than the navigation system, as it can import a paired phone's contact list.

As it’s closely related to the 2010 Honda Insight five-door hatchback, Honda is careful to pitch the Honda CR-Z as a hybrid sports coupe, and to put a little distance between its illustrious hot-hatch history. The CRX was a halo car for the whole Honda brand; the Honda CR-Z feels just like a two-door Insight with less cohesive looks and worse gas mileage.

Honda's latest hybrid, the 2011 Honda CR-Z, attempts to be both sporty and a hybrid, and it has middling success at each. My first and most lasting impression was how comfortable the CR-Z's ride is. A high point is the CR-Z's precise, well-weighted steering from what Honda notes is the company's smallest steering wheel. The handling is definitely sporty, but the Honda CR-Z didn't beg to be driven hard. What many car reviewers call underpowered, I call modestly powered. The Honda CR-Z is meant to be a sporty, fun car. Sporty cars typically are less efficient than normal ones, and a sporty hybrid can be expected to be less efficient than a normal hybrid. The Honda CR-Z is, as shown

The Honda CR-Z, a two-passenger, gasoline-electric hybrid car with a sporty bent, goes on sale this fall (third quarter 2010). Honda CR-Z (Compact Renaissance Zero, among the more believable interpretations) is based loosely on an existing Honda small-car platform. Relative to the subcompact Honda Fit, the Honda CR-Z is shorter and five inches lower but wider, lending a hint of low and wide that characterizes sports cars.