Fresh from being named the Japanese Car of the Year, Honda’s CR-Z has picked up another award, this one being a Best 15 title in Japan’s Good Design Award 2010.
Each year, only 15 projects from five different fields (tagged Society, Living, Work, Network and Human Body) are singled out for the select awards, and the CR-Z, along with Nissan’s Leaf EV, were the two automotive-based recipients this year in the Living category.
The judges described the uncompromising pursuit of aerodynamics of the roof and the flow from the front to the side and quarter panels of the CR-Z as a beautifully finished design, which could redefine the benchmark to determine, as the panel put it, “the attraction of cars.” It’s on this basis that the car has been honoured with a 2010 Best 15 Good Design Award.
This marks the fifth consecutive year that a Honda product has received the Good Design Award Best 15 – previous winning products include the Monpal ML200 four-wheel scooter, the HondaJet, the FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle and the Insight hybrid.
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the days of pocket rocket has return… just like the first CR-X in 1984.
Bring it in to Malaysia! I’ll make sure I’ll be the first one in the line!
Pls reserve a space for me lining up behind U……………..
This car remind me to Mazda Lantis & Ford Lynx, but at the end, its got nice interior,inside out nice design n award winning car of the year.. Please HONDA if u wanna bring this car to Malaysia make sure u bring CR-Z Hybrid R so it will be money can buy ya…=p
what u waiting for,honda malaysia???
CR-Z can be Scirocco contender!
2 person sit?
Looks like it was designed with just a straight ruler.
i hope honda brings this onto our shores…
BRINGGGGGG…………in the CR-Z to Malaysia………… HONDA marketing team!!!!!!!!! can u HHeeeaaarrrRRR us????
This is one truly record breaking model car of the year if it is on Malaysia soil!
Cantiknya interior dia…
If Hondo bring the CR-Z Hybrid to Malaysia…this will be selling like hot cakes!
It’s a CR-X but not as we know it. I agree with Tim Pollard in general that power isn’t everything and that it’s not that essential if you want to have fun. Nowadays, small turboed engines have brought relatively cheap power to the masses, with all the affordable Ibizas, Polos, Golfs, Scirrocos etc. Result? Many people who would make do with 80 or 90 bhp in their hatches a few years back, now opt to buy the more powerful versions, but they don’t seem to be able to drive them fast. They may accelerate fast in the traffic lights mini-grand prix, or hit 200 kph at the highway, but in winding B-roads with hairpins etc. they reduce their speeds like grannies. I often get overtaken by pocket rockets in a straight line, but further down the road when it gets curvy the same blokes usually slow me down as I keep my pace constant and reach them from behind. How stupid… This CR-Z seems to snob all this 1.4 lit 170 hbpness, and that’s so refreshing. I’ll certainly have a look at it as a possible next car. And I wouldn’t care at the slightest if some rocketman in a 200bhp Corsa overtook me in a straight line.
the nose more or less like mazda rx-8
Dear Honda Malaysia,
we are waiting for Honda CR-Z that price around RM65k to rm75k outside of Malaysia. thus, the price in here would be +- da same.
Please launch it in Malaysia ASAP
TQR