Car Sight

Japanese manufacturer Honda will unveil the Compact Renaissance Zero (CR-Z) concept car at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month.

This compact and lightweight sports car could pave the way for the return of the CR-X, a compact front wheel drive sports car from the mid 1980's.
(not the Pria)
Everything is counter-intuitive about the car; or, more correctly, it is continually revealing. You think you know all about it but when actually in the car there is sudden realization.

Starting. You push a button. Now, I'm old. I remember push button start cars. Push the button and a long rrugh, rrugh, rrugh as the engine tries to start. In the hybrid -- push the button and the dash lights come on. No engine noise. Your first thought is that the engine is dead (years of personal experience with dead batteries -- Cdn winters, you know). But, it is all correct.

Step on the gas. The engine kicks in to assist the electric engine for the acceleration and it finally sounds like a real car.

Braking. The mass of the car is used to generate free electricity (note previous two FREE electricity posts: one, two) which is stored in the car's batteries.

Stopped. The cars stops and there is perfect silence. Now the car has stalled. NOT. The gas engine simply stops because it isn't needed when stopped. No smog! But weird. Every stop had me looking for the starter because years of cheap car ownership has conditioned my mind to thinking, "that's a stall." But, again, perfectly normal.

A hybrid car. They should be compulsory. That's the kind of car to have. The argumentative no-sayers can prove beyond their doubt that they are not all that cost effective (if at all) but a single drive has me convinced. The reduction in air pollution alone, and the savings in gas ... I'm convinced.

Yes, it pushes problems "down the pipe" (or is it "up" in this case?). But it probably makes these problems more manageable.
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