2018 Honda CR-Z: It Might Finally Be What We Wanted All Along

The two-seater trades weak hybrid power for a potent turbo.

The American arm of Honda continues to be pleading to get a gutsy, appealing, and fairly priced coupe to strengthen its brand image, as well as another CR-Z is said by a source with close ties to the Japanese mothership is going to function as the response. "Recall the CRZ? It is expected to produce a huge recovery in 2017," we are told.

"The two reasons that induced Honda to phase it out [in Europe and Australia], specifically its poor street cred and insufficient operation thanks to its hohum hybrid vehicle power unit, happen to be addressed. The newest coupe is a power to reckon with," insists our source.

The first model was based on a modified variant of the Fit platform, but unlike the Fit, using its fuel tank that was centrally located, the CRZ's tank was repositioned in the back. To keep down prices, the fresh CR-Z the stage of is going to be borrowed from the next-generation Civic, but with four inches chopped in the wheelbase.

Anticipated to be larger than the existing CRZ, the newest version will borrow layout cues from the Civic Type R. as well as the new NSX Actually, it seems like the CRZ is going to be placed and promoted as a high performance coupe edition of the next-generation U.S. Civic, which means it may be called the Civic CR-Z.

While it is still some way out, we comprehend a CRZ model or concept car may surface in advance of a onsale date in the 2017 Detroit show.