Synthetic oil I'm almost 6k since my last change and still doing fine.

 

I'd still want it in for a filter change every few K though.

 

Service manual calls for a filter ever 7500 IIRC. I usually change my oil when I get a chance between 6 and 7k.

 

Some of you guys are Wash and Wax Wackos, I am a Maintenance Maniac

Now, I just need a badge

I plan to have my car in 20+ years, and many/most people here don't

 

[QUOTE=elmmx5,May 21 2008, 08:39 AM]I'd rather have a car that *is* fast, rather than *feels* fast.

 

Looks like that model will be perfect for what you need then Doug.

It will be a shame if they don't at least offer a performance model for those who want something that hearkens to the CRX like myself. If I want an econobox, I would buy something else. To me, taking a car that is designed and named to be so similar to a great car like the CRX and making it a hybrid grocery getter is like taking a car that looks like the S and putting a hybrid motor in it.

 

YOU ARE NOT GETTING IT!!!




Expand your limitations! Just because it does not have a 2.0 4-cyl performance gas engine does not mean it can't be one hell of a sporty car. The CRX was a sporty car, it was not a super fast car, it was a great handling quick car. The whole CR-Z concept is on the mark for good cornering and peppy performance. Do not look down upon it just because it challenges you to think of hybrid in a new light. Forget the f'ing Prius, that is the proverbial hybrid grocery getter, but just because something has hybrid technology does not religate it to rocery getting.

CR-Z converts to
4,080 millimeter = 160.6" Length
1,780 millimeter = 70.1" Width
1,280 millimeter = 50.4" Height
2,500 millimeter = 98.4" Wheelbase

CRX Gen 2 specs

 

Doug, not everyone wants the same things in life as you. I want a CRX type of car with a strong gas motor. I have no interest whatsoever in hybrid technology or saving the planet. I can't be bothered.

IMO, Honda will offer a decent gas powerplant in the CRZ in a year or two because not enough people who are interested in a sports car give a crap about green stuff.

Hybrids appeal more to the person who needs a sedan or something they can do more stuff with. Do you think hippies really care if the car can rip up the twisties?

 

It's a RACECAR and it is HYBRID and it WON Tokachi 24-Hour Race.



[B][I]Toyota Hybrid Race Car Wins Tokachi 24-Hour Race; In-Wheel Motors and Supercapacitors
17 July 2007
The HV-R hybrid racer.

Toyota

 

I'm well aware of that, but you put down the CR-Z concept and say it is not right to copy a CRX becaause the CR-Z will not be sporty like the CRX, and that, according to everything the rumor mill has shared about the CR-Z, is wrong.