Honda CR-Z Mugen Highly-Tuned Version

Mugen Euro has developed a highly-tuned version of the Honda CR-Z which aims to produce up to 200PS and 215Nm of torque by boosting the hybrid's petrol-electric powertrain

The goal of the challenge was to show hybrid cars could be fascinating to drive, by producing "Civic Type R-like" efficiency from the hybrid coupe while remaining sympathetic into the original Honda direction for the CR-Z.

"We desired a car which has genuine performance available at the touching of a switch, however is able to do as being a standard CR-Z and present good gas economy when the driver wishes, " says Colin Whittamore from Mugen Euro. "For that reason we've kept the several driving settings, and so the drivers could select 'eco' or 'normal' to change to economy and also low emissions for the regular drive, however press the Mugen button for any full-blown 'weekend warrior' settings! "

The vehicle maintains both the Honda IMA electric motor and the original 1. 5-litre i-VTEC fuel engine, which has recently been rebuilt to Mugen specification with bespoke improved and focused inside components.

2012 Honda Civic SI Coupe

2012 Honda Civic SI Coupe Picture

The 2012 Civic embraces the axiological abstraction of a "futuristic and characteristic compact," a administration that introduces new ethics that ability advanced of abreast needs and elevates the acquaintance that Honda Civic represents. Major strides accommodate improvements to clarification throughout, added ammunition abridgement on all models, the added accession of alternate technologies for personalization and convenience, forth with enhancements to performance, ride and autogenous packaging.

Civic barter amount the absolute accessible spectrum of automotive drivers. They are aerial academy graduates and academy acceptance aloof alpha their developed lives; they are families with adolescent children; they are schoolteachers, soccer parents and professionals, environmentalists and achievement enthusiasts; and they are Generation Y, babyish boomers and retirees. And they alive in Snow Belt states, Sunbelt states, in the Midwest and in Hawaii and Alaska. But behindhand of their demographic and psychographic makeup, Honda Civic barter are angry calm by one affair - they are adolescent at heart. Because at the end of the day, above its countless attributes (including safety, economy, durability, abundance and style), the Civic is fun to drive.

2012 Honda Civic Model Lineup

The automotive landscape has rapidly evolved in the last decade with increased interest in fuel economy, low emissions and overall affordability. All of these traits are among the Civic's strongest advantages. The new 2012 Civic lineup further embraces these concepts with six different variants that span from ultra efficient to high performance, with specific models designed to better meet individual needs and preferences. For 2012, a highly affordable and highly efficient Honda Civic HF has been added to the lineup. The aero-enhanced Civic HF achieves an estimated highway fuel economy rating of 41 miles per gallon, two more mpg than the regular Civic Sedan, and the highest highway fuel economy rating in America for any gasoline-only compact sedan equipped with an automatic transmission.

The 2012 Honda Civic model lineup is comprised of:

• Civic Sedan (Civic DX, Civic LX, Civic EX and Civic EX-L)
• Civic Coupe (Civic DX, Civic LX, Civic EX and Civic EX-L)
• High-efficiency and value-oriented Civic HF (new)
• High-performance Civic Si Sedan and Civic Si Coupe
• Ultra-efficient Civic Hybrid (with new Lithium-Ion batteries)
• Ultra-clean Civic Natural Gas, previously known as Civic GX (available at qualified dealers nationwide)

2008 Honda FC Sport V-Flow Fuel Cell Concept

2008 Honda FC Sport V-Flow Fuel Cell Concept Wallpaper

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Honda appear the Honda FC Sport architecture abstraction model, a hydrogen-powered, three-seat sports car concept, at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show.

The FC Sport emphasizes the architecture adaptability and abeyant of Honda's V Flow ammunition corpuscle technology - already deployed in the Honda FCX Clarity auto - and reconfigures it into a failing sports car architecture with an ultra-low centermost of gravity, able electric motor achievement and zero-emissions. The architecture abstraction abstraction is aggressive by supercar levels of achievement through low weight and a high-performance, electrically apprenticed ammunition corpuscle powertrain.

"The Honda FC Sport explores how to amuse automotive achievement enthusiasts in a apple aloft petroleum," said Dan Bonawitz, carnality admiral of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. "People who adulation sports cars will still accept a acumen to adulation in a hydrogen-powered future."

The high-output Honda ammunition corpuscle powertrain and a sleek, aerodynamic anatomy accord to the vehicle's achievement potential. A modular access to ammunition corpuscle basic packaging and the electric drivetrain accord to the FC Sport's low centermost of force with the majority of agent accumulation broadcast amid the axles, creating the counterbalanced weight administration approved afterwards in sports cars.

The ideal adjustment of the Honda V-Flow ammunition corpuscle assemblage and accompanying apparatus demonstrates the allowances of a platform-specific, hydrogen-powered ammunition corpuscle powertrain. The FC Sport is configured to board a custom-formed high-power ammunition corpuscle stack, amid amid the rear seats, and a array backpack placed low in the average of the vehicle. The electric motor resides aloof advanced of the rear axle. Two ammunition accumulator tanks, arresting from above, are amid aloft the rear axle.