Honda CRZ verses the city
This is a new version of an older Top Gear idea - the man verses machine kind of challenge where the Top Gear lads have a bit of fun and showcase a car at the same time whilst usually in some kind of humorous predicament.
This time it is the all new Honda CR-Z and it is a film from the USA Top Gear studio. Rutledge and Adam race the new Honda CRZ against extreme mountain bikers through the streets of San Francisco. It is all very Top Gear-ish but we get to see the all new CR-Z in a different, more sporty light.
This car is all about the young urban professional after all - the kind of car driver that wants to have fun!
If Honda still made the Prelude, its one-time staple performance coupe, it would probably cost $55,000-plus in 2011 money. When you figure that by conventional wisdom, adding hybrid power to something also adds to its sticker, rather than reducing it, the $44,900 asking price for the CR-Z looks decent.
The 1970's were a much simpler time. For all those children of the 60's & 70's there will be a lot of fond memories of time spent in Mum's, or a friend's mum's Honda civic. New Zealand embraced this revolutionary car in an age of oil crisis, enforced carless days and thoughts of fuel saving. Can you imagine a compulsory carless day happening today? At the time the 1st Generation Honda Civic was one of those pivotal motoring moments - a car that ran on the smell of an oily rag.
