2011 Honda CR-Z EX - Road Test - Car and Driver
Since Honda began selling the Insight—the first hybrid vehicle in North America—way back in the concluding month of the 20th century, it has struggled to find a winning formula for the carbon-conscious hybrid crowd. The 2003 Civic hybrid didn’t capture hybrid buyers’ apparent desire for something that looked different, that made a statement. The same can be said of the 2005 Honda Accord hybrid—and that V-6–powered sedan didn’t produce as big a bump in fuel economy as did the Civic. Apparently a lot of people missed that test—or perhaps they value the Toyota’s superior mileage and vastly larger back seat and cargo hold—because the Prius outsold the Insight more than 6 to 1 (80,141 to 12,115) during the first seven months of... Honda would like you to think of the 2011 CR-Z as the spiritual successor to its sporty and now iconic CRX of ’80s glory. But the Z is more of a two-seat Insight and thus the spiritual successor to the original, and now, ironically, much-sought-after Insight. Compared with the Insight, the CR-Z’s wheelbase is 4. 5 inches shorter, at 95. 9. its 160. 6-inch length is clipped by about a foot, though the Z is. Source: www.caranddriver.com
