Honda brings back the CRX!!! (new look)

Yes it's true it's ture honda is bringin back the great crx with a new look. heres a pic for ya
http://easyfinder.atnext.com/images/next-photos/EasyFinder/533/640pixfolder/X533-018/X533-018-09A.jpg

wtf!!!
that looks crap and nothing like the old CRX!!!
Looks like a civic gone wrong!!

yeah I know it looks like a ford focus sort of

looks like a shortened RSX

This type of thing comes up every year.... ever since they stopped production on the CRX. The design always changes, of course.

If they built a new CRX, and kept it true the idea of the old CRX (small, agile, quick, lightweight, affordable two-seat fastback), I'd be there in a minute. I'd sell and borrow whatever I could to own one.

If they do come out with a new CRX, it's looks are going to be based off the current Civic line, just like the old CRXs were. Honeslty I don't think that picture is all that bad looking. Hood needs to be a little longer. And it looks like it has 15" rims in the front and 12" in the rear (artist needs to work on perspective a bit more), but overall it's not that bad.

Actually the pic is pretty good, keeping in mind it's an artist rendition. A current gen CRX would probably have a front similar to the Civic Si, a hatch shaped similar to the Volkswagen Corrado (a little more modern looking that the 2nd gen CRX hatch, but still in the same basic fastback shape). For taillights... who knows... maybe RSX style.

I don't think they'll ever bring back the CRX. If they do, however, it wont look like the old CRXs. It'll have the same basic shape, but a new car has to look like a new car.

Here's a version of the CRX that I photoshopped from the new Si hatch:
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/455300NewCRX02.jpg

First pic looks like a cross between a neon and a focus. :bloated: Looks horrible IMO

A neon? Where?

That said, I'd hit it :)

Actually, yeah. If Dodge ever made a Neon hatchback, it would probably look like that.

I don't think it looks one bit like a Focus. I think people just got way too used to using that term.

Actaully, if Honda was to build the CRX right now, i'd honestly willing to bet they WOULD NOT build it off the civic platform, however I believe it would use civic parts. Here i'll explain.

A few years ago maybe 2-3, honda while developing the new global compact platform the 7th gen civic's, new CRV's, and the RSX's are based off of. They also made a even smaller global platform for mini cars (like those goofy 3 cyc and 4 cyc cars they have in japan and the same cars that look like rolling boxes in gran turismo). This mini platform has some usual features like a midship mounted gas tank on some of the models honda has used it on (aka you sit on it basicly). However this mini platform has proven more versitle that honda orgianally though. Right now its rumored that a design study is goin on to move the gas tank to the rear along with a few other things, like rather than using the platform to build refridgorator looking people haulers....why can't they make a niffty two door coupe outta one? If honda gets it right, they can just maybe use the new Si's K20 motor and brake system, maybe some other items and basicly combine those with this mini chassis and make a CRX from almost nothing really.

I think this is the reason why CRX rumors have been more on the fly in recent years...cuz honda IS THINKING ABOUT IT, but they won't tell us now will they? hehe. I think a twisted version of this mini platform is already running around on US shores...little old thing called the insight. However even if you swaped a motor into it the insight would never become a performace coupe, the suspenion has a solid rear beam axel and the rear wheels are closer together than the front wheels which blows for handling. But like i said i think honda can do it...god at this rate I think we better hope they can do it.

one more thing...anyone notice that car in the first pic DOES sorta resemble a insight???:confused:

I just don't see any of my car in there. There's no raised moldings, there's no round headlights with seperate turn signals, no marker in the front bumper, etc. The shape looks all turn of the milennium honda to me. Like i can see some RSX looking lines in there, and some insight too.

I'd STILL hit it! :flash:

eh, your probably right. But neon was the 1st thing that came to mind when I seen that first one (white).

The 2nd one however, looks hot. Somebody slam it.

damn this wasn't the orginal article i read but it backs my theory, go here and read,

http://beta.vtec.net/news/news-item?news_item_id=13236

then click the link within that one it explains it more,

http://www.mag-x.com/scoop/sportshb0205/index.html

here is another sketch......

Originally posted by EF9JDM
here is another sketch......


this one looks like an RSX concept picture tho, as the real thing isnt far off.

The crx concept looks horrible. Honda done fucked up the civic when they changed it in 2001. You cant soup it up, and if you do there is virtually no HP gain. That is why everybody is buying focus's and neons. What would be cool is if toyota back the corolla hatch, or the trecel to fill the gap.

Also Nissan needs to bring out a Coupe or Hatch version of the SE-R because that would be tight

Originally posted by Melt
The crx concept looks horrible. Honda done fucked up the civic when they changed it in 2001. You cant soup it up, and if you do there is virtually no HP gain. That is why everybody is buying focus's and neons. What would be cool is if toyota back the corolla hatch, or the trecel to fill the gap.

alright...couple things wrong here. First off honda is not gonna make a car that resembles a smoothed out 2nd gen CRX, its gonna have a few twist in the design they are not gonna keep it looking like if the car would have not progressed into the del sol but it will stay a hatch none the less. If they made it looks sorta like our cars sure people would buy them but I don't think the car is old enough to be pulled off with that retro styling crap, I like EF9JDM's pic alot I don't see what so bad about it, that white pic leaves some to be desired but I think with work it could be something i've very much want a peice of.

second, honda did what they had to do with the civic. The civic will always be a passenger car no some detuned race car. Double wish bone is gone...most people don't even know the adavantages/disadvatages of the double wishbone system anyways yet they claim the wishbone superior. Sure I love mine but i've drivin mc pherson strut cars that could easily outhandle mine. An no power to be gained??? Man i hope that was a joke. Maybe in the new 1.7 SOHC vtec in the EX's I could MAYBE see but i heard they seem to enjoy mods as much as our little 1.6's do. Keep in mind how heavy the civic has become even a good motor can be put down by sheer weight. As for the K20 motor...mod for mod it will smack down most B-series motors with the same bolt-ons they are just starting to prove this. The K motors are AWESOME little motors and it will replace the B motors just fine I think in time.

As for people goin out and buyin other makes, shit have a little faith. Hell lately most of their cars have been along the same lines as the civic as far basic performance (sportier models set aside). Besides if riceboys wanna buy something other than civics...good...i'm not gonna stop them. Not rippin on you just tellin it like it is.

I actually havent researched the mods. But here in california, the smog shit is so strigent that a lot of people who have modded their 2001+ civics have failed. Because the new civic falls into the SULEV class, and it is barely there stock. So the minute you do anything to it, it fails. I understand that the crx wont look like a smoothed out 2nd gen, but I hated that pic. I did however like the photoshopped one that ci5ic did of the SI hatch. If I were to get another civic I would try to get a 2000, but there is no way I would buy a focus or neon, because they are wannabe domestic import cars. The 2001+ civics are starting to be fast though, but it has taken them a while to get there. Once I see them with more than altezzas and intake, I might consider one.

Then again, I may just keep my car for commuting and buy a tacoma so I can go wheelin, and have an easier time loading my mountain bike into / onto it.

well ppl the white pic that i first posted was scanned off a honda tuner magazine and is an official concept.

Official according to who?

Magazines publish concept pics all the time. Most of them never make it to production.

Originally posted by Melt
there is no way I would buy a focus or neon, because they are wannabe domestic import cars.

You're correct about the focus, they were designed by ford europe and as such they're a wannabe domestic, right?

As for the neon it is a domestic car, nothing import about them. Chrysler has been doing small 4cyl performance cars since the mid 80s like my '86 shelby charger. To me neon just *feels* more like a minimopar, rather than a copy of some soulless import car. I'll bet even the upcoming SRT-4 feels more like a Shadow ES than a Mitsubishi Eclipse.