Tokyo 2009: Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coming to North America Next Year
by Dennis Chung
October 21st, 2009 12:35 PM
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Honda announced a production version of its CR-Z hybrid concept will be introduced to North America in the second half of 2010.
As the second version of the CR-Z concept was unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Show, Honda announced the production version will be a sporty 2-seat hybrid, the first hybrid car set up with a manual transmission.
Power for the CR-Z comes from a 1.5-liter gasoline engine mated to an electric motor. This 200cc of added displacement over the 1.3-liter engine found in both the Civic Hybrid and Insight should help put more of a focus on performance.
The production version of the CR-Z will debut in January at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show.
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This is just bad reporting. I have a 2000 Honda Insight (First year of the first hybrid produced for the US market) With a manual transmission, the auto transmission wasn't even offered in my year (CVT was offered instead in 2001). Edit please.
I purchased the Honda Insight this year's car is fine. Only some plastics cool. combustion is really little to 5.3 L per 100 km. I am the last 6500 miles that I ran. audio equipment I had to rebuild the whole factory was very ill done. I think that in the CR-everything has been improved with