Hybrid Honda CR-Z coming February next year!
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 liter 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 liter 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.
July 13, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
Kewl!!!
look nice from front…
but look like audi a bit…
July 13, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
look like a car from the future….. way cool man… definitely better than outdated design of T Prius…. go Honda!…..
July 13, 2009 @ 1:37 pm
good but honda not so tuff
July 13, 2009 @ 2:16 pm
The front looks a bit like the face lifted RX-8…
July 13, 2009 @ 2:32 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..
July 13, 2009 @ 2:39 pm
its gonna be realy super expensive of future car be sold in malaysia
July 13, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
Environmental friendly NOT NECESSARILY pocket friendly! A head turner for sure. Make mine Electric Blue or Green to reflect the engine.
July 13, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
http://www.petitiononline.com/malaysia/
Please spread and sign it.
July 13, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
six + one words: the design does not make sense. urgh.
July 13, 2009 @ 3:52 pm
where is the jaguar XJ man??
July 13, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
mr mohd, dream on for lower car prices for non national cars!! it will never happen! =)
July 13, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
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!
July 13, 2009 @ 4:27 pm
i wonder where they gort all the name..
CR-V.., CR-Z..
rather M.I.C.K.E.Y-M.O.U.S.E…!
July 13, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
Waiiiiiittt!!!!
Where is CR-Y ?
aiyohh… CR-Z superseded all CR version meh?
July 13, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
i dont like the grill, overall so futuristic but the grill so outdated like toyota cars
July 13, 2009 @ 5:52 pm
Agreed. I feel the grill and the nose makes it look like a Basset Hound. It is cute…..I guess. =/
July 13, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
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.
July 13, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
Yeah. It’s a start.
July 13, 2009 @ 6:43 pm
mystvearn said,
July 13, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
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yeaa…. good news for consumer…..
July 13, 2009 @ 10:21 pm
Another dugong…
July 13, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
Lowering the non national car prices is just an unreachable Utopia.
July 14, 2009 @ 9:16 am
It like a Cartoon CARS Animated
July 14, 2009 @ 9:18 am
looks like audi..can we call it copy?
July 14, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
saw it the last month from HONDA NEWSLETTER, damn drolling….hopefully it comes like what it shown in the booklet…….pheeewwww damn hot
July 15, 2009 @ 2:31 pm
‘Honda Fit Hybrid will go on sale before the end of 2010.’
how much do you think?
August 12, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
WHY WOULDN’T YO DESIGN CAR LIKE THIS, PROTON!!!??? ARE YOUR DESIGNERS BRAIN FRIED OR SOMETHING???!!!