Honda might actually build a CRZ that doesnt suck

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Honda Might Build The 280 HP Turbo CR-Z We Wanted In The First Place

Just bring the god damn CRX name back.

Honda billed the CR-Z as a small, efficient and fun hybrid sport coupe worthy of being the successor to the giant-slaying CRX of the 1980s. In reality, it was none of those things, and lately Honda is lucky if they sell 300 of them a month. But now Road & Track reports that Honda's next CR-Z might be a proper do-over.

Citing an unnamed source, the magazine reports that American Honda has been clamoring for a legitimate performance compact car for some time, and they finally might get it in 2017 with a totally reborn CR-Z based on the next generation Civic platform. The current 130 horsepower hybrid CR-Z, available with a manual or CVT, has been a disappointment on all fronts.3

But the next one might get the turbocharged 2.0-liter VTEC four-cylinder engine out of the new European Civic Type R, albeit detuned to a still-respectable 280 horsepower.

In fact, it looks as if the CR-Z will be positioned and marketed as a high-performance coupe version of the next-generation U.S. Civic, which means it may be called the Civic CR-Z.
 
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