Hybrid Honda CR-Z coming February next year!

Honda CR-Z

Honda has announced that the Honda CR-Z hybrid sports car will go on sale in February 2010 and the Honda Fit Hybrid will go on sale before the end of 2010. Both cars will use Honda’s current Integrated Motor Assist system which currently combines a 1.3 litre engine with an electric motor.

They’ve also revealed that a new hybrid system for mid to large vehicles is also under development. This is definitely important especially for the Acura brand, as its competitors have line-ups full of hybrids now, and Lexus even has a dedicated hybrid model called the HS250h.

The last hybrid system with a large engine that Honda had was found in the previous generation Honda Accord in the US. It combined a 14kW brushless electric motor and a 3.0 litre V6 with Variable Cylinder Management that allowed it to run on 3 cylinders out of 6. Like the smaller IMA system, it was a parallel hybrid system which means it could not run on electric motor only.

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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Comments

  • silv3r on Jul 13, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    Kewl!!!

    look nice from front…

    but look like audi a bit…

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  • look like a car from the future….. way cool man… definitely better than outdated design of T Prius…. go Honda!…..

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  • good but honda not so tuff

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  • The front looks a bit like the face lifted RX-8…

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  • Ariff on Jul 13, 2009 at 10:32 pm

    damn!!that fast!!oh,boy!!come on,honda msia!!get this for us!!it'll be a really HEAD turner on the road.not only the heads,the bodies too!!the parallel importers,maybe??I bet it cost rm200k ++..or maybe civic type-r price..

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  • xavier lert on Jul 13, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    its gonna be realy super expensive of future car be sold in malaysia

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  • leonardo on Jul 13, 2009 at 11:01 pm

    Environmental friendly NOT NECESSARILY pocket friendly! A head turner for sure. Make mine Electric Blue or Green to reflect the engine.

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  • http://www.petitiononline.com/malaysia/
    Please spread and sign it.

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  • barca on Jul 13, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    six + one words: the design does not make sense. urgh.

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  • CRUDE on Jul 13, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    where is the jaguar XJ man??

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  • CRUDE on Jul 13, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    mr mohd, dream on for lower car prices for non national cars!! it will never happen! =)

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  • longjaafar on Jul 14, 2009 at 12:15 am

    Paul, you should stop getting us excited with the headlines, only to know later that 'coming' does not mean coming to Malaysia.

    For a moment, I thought we are really right there with the rest. Hehehehe!

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  • mkrafz on Jul 14, 2009 at 12:27 am

    i wonder where they gort all the name..

    CR-V.., CR-Z..

    rather M.I.C.K.E.Y-M.O.U.S.E…!

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  • Yamato Honda on Jul 14, 2009 at 12:31 am

    Waiiiiiittt!!!!

    Where is CR-Y ?

    aiyohh… CR-Z superseded all CR version meh?

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  • Victor Lee on Jul 14, 2009 at 12:47 am

    i dont like the grill, overall so futuristic but the grill so outdated like toyota cars

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  • mystvearn (Member) on Jul 14, 2009 at 1:59 am

    If you want to buy Hybrids wait. Wait another 5 years. Some student-researcher just published a paper on rechargable batteries which will make charging it mere seconds compared to hours now. The paper has been publish in Nature or was it Science. Next year, telephone companies are expected to use the technology on the batteries, then cars soon to follow.

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  • kei9 (Member) on Jul 14, 2009 at 2:37 am

    Yeah. It's a start.

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  • initial R on Jul 14, 2009 at 2:43 am

    mystvearn said,

    July 13, 2009 @ 5:59 pm

    ——————————————————————

    yeaa…. good news for consumer…..

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  • perosembilan on Jul 14, 2009 at 6:21 am

    Another dugong…

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  • EricG on Jul 14, 2009 at 6:23 am

    Lowering the non national car prices is just an unreachable Utopia.

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  • It like a Cartoon CARS Animated

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  • linear_system on Jul 14, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    looks like audi..can we call it copy?

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  • saw it the last month from HONDA NEWSLETTER, damn drolling….hopefully it comes like what it shown in the booklet…….pheeewwww damn hot

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  • rolls on Jul 15, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    'Honda Fit Hybrid will go on sale before the end of 2010.'

    how much do you think?

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  • TheKHAI on Aug 12, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    WHY WOULDN'T YO DESIGN CAR LIKE THIS, PROTON!!!??? ARE YOUR DESIGNERS BRAIN FRIED OR SOMETHING???!!!

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  • roden on Feb 10, 2010 at 2:22 am

    thekhai , u must know that malays got no people who are good enought in design and even beable to preview their car desgin, every artist hv to depend on the deadly comercial advertising to survive, poor. However some of the people design and modify their car by self, but sometime they spoil the line or the original design concept and make the car looks loosy~. and what i dont like the most is car maker always spoil the condept car design when come to production, maybe just some different to make it more practicle, but what is the practicle they hv made? where? and how ? they always spoil the most important part , which is the reason why the car looks awsome~, and make is become feeling less, T.T

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