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similar head and taillights, same body lines and windows. its basically a 2 door prius with rims
Great... So you've got an Automatic transmission with a bunch of cool new features... Great, until you need to fix it. Oops, pay somebody to fix it. All so you can have a lazy left foot and a CVT sticker next to your VTEC one?Sleeper6 wrote:That 122hp means nothing when you have the instantaneous power of electric assist and CVT transmissions
Linky no workyfillpereira wrote:There's a Mugen Cr-z Supercharged with almost 200hp
Jeremy Clarkson test drove it in one of his dvds specials
http://www.videozer.com/video/E44Sft
Its about 5 minutes in, enjoy
Actually as much as I hate hybrids the CRZ isnt one to knock. And out of curiousity do you even understand how a Continuously Variable Transmission works? Its able to constantly keep the engine in the power much better than you could ever hope to shift, its not just some "sticker to make it faster" and you can even have preset ratios in the auto w/paddleshift, which would be the way to go over the stick option hate to say it. Oh as for fixing it, you ld be amazed how long honda is willing to step in and help its customers under warranty even when they are outside the limits. Heck one of our techs at work has one and it even put a modded cobalt SS to shame just by running stock in sport mode. Either way this is one car you have to drive to appreciate.MrMazda92 wrote:Great... So you've got an Automatic transmission with a bunch of cool new features... Great, until you need to fix it. Oops, pay somebody to fix it. All so you can have a lazy left foot and a CVT sticker next to your VTEC one?Sleeper6 wrote:That 122hp means nothing when you have the instantaneous power of electric assist and CVT transmissions![]()
I don't like Hondas personally, but I can respect a quality product when I see it. I've even seen a Civic around town that caught my eye in a good way. Hatchback, legitimately gutted and lightened, quality paint job and no rice to be seen or heard.
No matter what people say in this thread, it'll always look like a 2 door auto trans prius to me. There's my .10 cents, the pictures in my previous post count for the 2.
Not really. If you look at the general shape of the car, it's just a revamped Insight (which, in time, is a bad Prius copy). Sure, the "subtleties" are different, but the general shape is there.im2bad4ya wrote: Mr. Mazda92, those pics just don't do justice. It's kinda misleading.
So let's take out the "hybrid" element out of the car for now, and let's say this car came stock with a Civic Si engine, would you still compare it to a Prius? Like I said, to me, the cars are not one in the same, styling wise. It apples and orange to me. The only thing it has in common with the Prius as far as I can tell is its drivetrain. For me, a better analogy of the MX3 VS CR-Z as far as styling is like comparing a Chrysler 300 to a Bentley Phantom, where you can see how maybe one got its styling cue from the other. And even tho the CR-Z is supposed to be engineered in the spirit of a CRX, I think styling wise it has more in common with the MX3.Inodoro Pereyra wrote:Personally, while I don't like the Prius (and I despise the hybrid concept per se), I don't dislike its lines.
Completely agree. I could NEVER confuse one for the other. Same as with the CR-Z to a Prius. And even if that was the case, I don't think anybody buys a car because IT DOESN'T look like another car. Granted, that's why I love my MX3, BECAUSE it's different. But I also think the CR-Z is differentethand wrote:Its like saying a Civic and a Mazda3 look the same - just because both were designed with similar intent in mind, the subtleties are enough to make one look very different to the other
Let me put it this way: if the car came equipped with a BMW, 5.7L V10 engine, it'd still look like a Prius' bad copy.im2bad4ya wrote: So let's take out the "hybrid" element out of the car for now, and let's say this car came stock with a Civic Si engine, would you still compare it to a Prius?
Now that worries me. What do you see the CR-Z has in common with the mx-3? 4 wheels and a windshield?im2bad4ya wrote: For me, a better analogy of the MX3 VS CR-Z as far as styling is like comparing a Chrysler 300 to a Bentley Phantom, where you can see how maybe one got its styling cue from the other. And even tho the CR-Z is supposed to be engineered in the spirit of a CRX, I think styling wise it has more in common with the MX3.
I see what you did there!Inodoro Pereyra wrote:What do you see the CR-Z has in common with the mx-3? 4 wheels and a windshield?