WanganRunner

Seeing as how the car JUST came out there, new owners (and test-drivers like this guy) are flooding Minkara and other sites with pictures of their cars. I thought I'd post a few up. If anyone else finds any, please add.

I will also be posting up more CR-Z stuff at sixsylinder.blogspot.com as I find it.

***I WILL PAY GOOD MONEY FOR JAPANESE CR-Z PROMOTIONAL DEALER MATERIALS. Especially one of those green flags!






Headlights have lots of cool little details:








Stock JDM tire appears to be either Advan A10 or Potenza RE50. This car has the Advans.
















Crazy passenger-side wiper:




Same plastic intake mani as on the 1.5L in the JDM Fit.






Battery container, I believe?




Not sure what I'm looking at here with the hose. Anyone?




Rear plate mounting area with backup camera:




What is ETC? Looks like a card reader of some kind?




Ah, the much-beloved JDM road flare:




Video input is interesting.






Not much for rear visibility:













Crazy gauge cluster. Apparently green is when it's either at a stop or engaged in regenerative braking...maybe?



"Normal mode"



"Eco Mode"



"Sport mode"




Other interior shots:

billyinse

i thought the gauges were green when your driving "good" not using a lot of fuel and red when you are zippin around wasting gas and the hose in the trunk is a medical cath. lol j/k

The-Kid

I wish the US version comes with those seats. Even though they might be useless, they are still seats.

Buttes

That is one interesting gauge cluster. Fancy!

f.e

nice, gauges

DrZFiNeSt

iTrader: (1)

Im still on the fence about these,Those gauges are nice though.

90Rexx

green guage means your in eco mode, blue is normal mode, and red is sport mode.

Blue-Civic-Hybrid

iTrader: (1)

Looks very nice, I still want to get one for my wife.

DVDr

iTrader: (2)

Overall looks great, Wouldnt mind owning a super base model when they arrive here. MPGs is were its at.

The-Kid

I never realized the old school Civic door handles. How cool.

Anon51

that hose you were looking at in the rear is for a fluid that goes into the tire if you have a puncture in your tire. it fills in the hole and allows you to pump the tire back up with air. its a temporary solution. it should come with a small air pump aswell. mazda rx8's have it in their trunks aswell.

WanganRunner

^^
Neat, thanks for the explanation.


A few new photos posted today. Lots of covers on the undercarriage, presumably for aero?

KoRn_vIRuZ

Thank you very much for the pictures!

ETC is the Japanese automatic toll collection system: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etc

WanganRunner

Cool! Thanks for the link.


Think that orange cable on the underside of the car is power from the rear-mounted battery box to the electric motor in the front?

tamadrummer1120

^^

any cables put in an orange shielding like this is automatic indication of high voltage wires for the purpose of the rear battery and hybrid electric motor, like you stated. the prius has this as well.

macknjack

i like it. it wouldn't give the "greener" feel to doing something good for the environment. and it also appears that it could be kinda fun to drive.

NAOK9688

looks good so far love the gauge, would be fun if it went up to 10k lol

jones52725

Wow, awesome looking gauges. Anyone know what the ETC thing is? OP was right, it looks like a card reader of some kind

WanganRunner

^^
Someone up above answered it. It's the Japanese toll-booth payment system.

Google does a halfway-decent job of translating the wiki article.

MSchu

very cool stuff... thanks for posting the picts

bonamin

The Front, and Interior is cool, but I don't really like the back of the car.
They should have made it a bit better.

barman_

what a car!!!

great!!love it!!

hope when it comes to Greece i can buy it..and tune it :D

Takahashi

Very nice daily!

j3wman

i love that car and id be interested in buying it if they had a manual transmission for it

2point2

Is that the price? (YEN)