{"id":211943,"date":"2010-01-21T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/21\/hondas-hybrid-cr-z-inspired-by-lotus-volkswagen-and-the-mini-cooper\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:14:03","slug":"honda%e2%80%99s-hybrid-cr-z-inspired-by-lotus-volkswagen-and-the-mini-cooper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/211943","title":{"rendered":"Honda\u2019s Hybrid CR-Z Inspired by Lotus, Volkswagen and the MINI Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/files\/2010\/01\/2009-honda-cr-z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4447\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/01\/2009-honda-cr-z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to chief chassis engineer for Honda&#8217;s CR-Z, the much-hyped hybrid was heavily influenced by the Lotus Elise.<\/p>\n<p>Terukazu Torikai said&#8211;via YouTube subtitles&#8211;that the basic concept for the CR-Z was to be fun to drive. In fact, the car was not only inspired by Lotus. The MINI Cooper and Volkswagen&#8217;s Scirocco also played a part in its design. I&#8217;m just happy we&#8217;ve moved past the original Insight (fugly).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/01\/21\/hondas-hybrid-cr-z-inspired-by-lotus-volkswagen-and-the-mini-cooper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Gfs_45zfV4k:KimMI28RCzQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Gfs_45zfV4k:KimMI28RCzQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Gfs_45zfV4k:KimMI28RCzQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Gfs_45zfV4k:KimMI28RCzQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Gfs_45zfV4k:KimMI28RCzQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Gfs_45zfV4k:KimMI28RCzQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Gfs_45zfV4k:KimMI28RCzQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Gfs_45zfV4k:KimMI28RCzQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/Gfs_45zfV4k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to chief chassis engineer for Honda&#8217;s CR-Z, the much-hyped hybrid was heavily influenced by the Lotus Elise. Terukazu Torikai said&#8211;via YouTube subtitles&#8211;that the basic concept for the CR-Z was to be fun to drive. In fact, the car was not only inspired by Lotus. The MINI Cooper and Volkswagen&#8217;s Scirocco also played a part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}