These pics, purportedly of a Honda CR-Z facelift, has been circulating online, originating from China. If legit, it shows another refresh for Honda’s “sport hybrid coupe” that debut in 2010. A facelift appeared at the end of 2012 with a new lithium-ion battery, S+ boost button and slightly revised aesthetics.
These pics show the familiar shape with a new face. The top edges of the honeycomb grille have been sawed off, and the lower lip is no longer flat – there’s a protruding chin that cuts in to the fog lamp housings, which are bigger and bolder than the current car’s. Arrows also point to new wheels and chunkier side sills. New headlamps as well?
The rear shot shows unchanged tail lamp clusters, but the lower bumper is new. Like the front, the black bits are curvier but there are still no visible tail pipes for this hybrid car.
There’s a cabin shot as well, and it shows a right-hand drive dashboard with a couple of arrows hinting at changes. The biggest one seen is what looks like an electronic parking brake behind the gear lever, coupled with the addition of a centre armrest with storage box.
Arrows also point to the door handle and centre console “pillars” so there might be a new trim material for these areas. There’s also a 2-DIN touch screen head unit with a six-box main menu that appears similar to that seen on today’s City and Jazz, so it could be the same system. Spot anything else?
If these pics are legit, a facelifted Honda CR-Z could be waiting for us at the bi-annual Tokyo Motor Show happening later this year. Not quite dead yet it seems, despite being discontinued in certain regions.
Current Honda CR-Z Facelift
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look more like aftermarket mods
As I said, you won’t go wrong with sushi cars. This CRZ no doubt look sexy, but not really close to sport car.
Takata airbags included?
The collective ah bengs of the Internets just jizzed their pants. That bumper right there is the stuff of every gundam-loving 12-year-old’s hand-drawn sports car..
still ugly
At RM160,000+, whatever lift also useless… the removal of the Hybrid tax advantage killed it… (it was pretty crap before even at RM115k :P)
Megane-styled F1-inspired front blade
the battery is gonna cost half of the car price after warranty due.
didn’t know the car only cost 10k?
go to AAM website. they have extended warranty for cars like opal, smart and also extended warranty for hybrid cars.
worst car we have ever owned, it would keep losing power and the only way to get it back was to stop, turn of the car and restart – Honda didn’t consider this a fault but a FEATURE of hybrids would you believe! We sold it after 9 months
owned jazz hb auto and crz manual.. never got those issue? Yes when battery is out, it is more sluggish. If you want more power, just switch to RED mode or retune the icu and sacrifice the fuel consumption?
Would happen all the time in heavy traffic, you could floor the throttle and the engine would not go about 1500 rpm, 20kmh or so. Stop, turn off engine, restart and then it would be back to normal.
Went into Honda many times, they said they were aware but there wasn’t a fix
Looks nice :)
Keep losing power? Something wrong with your car.
I’ve been driving this car for almost 2 years. Good power in city drive and fun to drive. No regret at all :) Too bad the price now is 183k. Too expensive with zero sales
Hybrid sucks
Clearly there was something wrong, thats why we kept taking it back. Lucky the tax advantage got taken away so we sold it for almost what we paid for it. Would never buy a hybrid again
No difference haha
Proton Iriz Is better than Honda CR-Z.
it got 4 door.