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Honda CR-Z wins Best Sports Car Award
Barretts Honda News Honda CR-Z wins Best Sports Car Award
GONG FOR HONDA CR-Z AT WHAT CAR? GREEN AWARDS
The Honda CR-Z has won Best Sports Car at the What Car? Green Awards, held at Twickenham Stadium, where it was commended for its best-in-class economy and value for money.
The CR-Z, priced from £16,999, won praise for its sharp handling, efficient engine and sporty looks, as well as its unique design.
What Car? editor-in-chief Steve Fowler said: "The CR-Z is small and light and looks just right, and it’s powered by hybrid technology which means it's clean and efficient to run too. The CR-Z is the greenest and most cost effective sports car available in the market place today."
As the first hybrid with a sporty 6-speed manual gearbox, the CR-Z stands out from other green cars on the market and offers true driving thrills thanks to an agile chassis, direct steering, a low driving position and boosts of torque from the petrol-electric drivetrain.
Demand for the car has been strong since its release in June, with over 500 cars sold in the UK in the first month. Most customers have chosen the top spec GT model, priced at £19,999.
The What Car? Green awards, now in their third year, look for the best eco-friendly cars to buy. Rather than centre exclusively on emissions or miles per gallon, the awards take in a range of factors including value for money, safety and the driving experience, but maintain a core focus on environmental impact.
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CR-Z at Royal College of Arts
Barretts Honda News New Honda CR-Z at Royal College of Arts Finance Deals on New Honda CR-Z at Barretts Honda, Canterbury
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Honda's new sporty hybrid - the CR-Z - which led a convoy of low emission vehicles on this year’s Eco Rally held yesterday, was also the star of a street art exhibition outside the Royal College of Arts (RCA).
Since Monday, the street art collective Agents of Change had been creating a bespoke piece of graffiti as a backdrop to a display outside the RCA. The live art installation was unveiled yesterday with the Honda CR-Z forming an integral part. The car was adorned in vinyl graphics to reflect the direction of the street art.
The street art incorporated a red, green and blue colour scheme - a reference to the three driving modes of the CR-Z - ECON (green), NORMAL (blue) and SPORT (red).
Agents of Change are among the 20 ‘Cultural Engineers’ celebrated by Honda as part of its Dream Factory activity in the UK. Each of the pioneering individuals – musicians, artists, filmmakers and social entrepreneurs – share common traits with the CR-Z and their work reflect the values of the hybrid coupe: delivering fun, great design, with a modern conscience.
Honda is celebrating the inspiring stories and ground-breaking achievements of these innovators through a website, a limited edition book, an eclectic exhibition in London and a series of nationwide workshops. For more information on the work of the Cultural Engineers, visit: http://www.dreamfactoryuk.com
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TV Advert For CR-Z Hybrid
MODE TRIP: HONDA'S NEW TV ADVERT FOR CR-Z HYBRID Honda's TV advert to promote its new sporty hybrid coupe
The 60-second spot for the CR-Z showcases the car’s unique three driving modes of Econ, Sport and Normal – and reflects the changing moods of the driver in each of the settings.
Called ‘RGB’, the ad is inspired by the look and feel of the CR-Z and is shot from the viewpoint of someone travelling through a city in the car. The focus of the film is the influence that the CR-Z’s three driving modes can have on a particular journey. The colour of the car’s dashboard display changes with each mode, and these shifts from red to green to blue are reflected in each part of the film, together with the changing environments the car is travelling through.
The advert highlights how a driver’s engagement with a city changes according to the mode they are driving in, making the experience more vivid and colourful.
The ad is the latest Honda spot made for the European market by W+K London, and was created by Sam Heath and Chris Groom and directed by Frank Budgen.
Sam Heath, Creative Director at Wieden + Kennedy, said, “The thing about this hybrid is that it’s fantastic to drive. You can choose to engage with the road and the world around you in three distinct ways. That’s essentially what the film’s all about.”
The spot is supported by a print campaign and digital activity, including an innovative Facebook campaign that takes information from the user’s profile pages to create a personalised piece of artwork.
The ‘Mode Art’ application allows users to create unique designs that incorporate images, names, dates and other details from their own Facebook pages. Mode Art can be experienced at: http://www.facebook.com/hondacarsuk
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Gold & Silver Neal & Shedden
Barretts Honda BTCC News Gold and Silver for Neal and Shedden Honda Racing Team: BTCC Race Review, Rounds 10-12, Oulton Park, Cheshire
In the company of World Champion cyclist Ed Clancy and World Champion gymnast Beth Tweddle, Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden brought home Gold and Silver medals at Oulton Park in Cheshire on Sunday.
Honda Racing Team star Matt Neal extended his lead in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship by winning the 12th round of the series. The Honda Civic driver’s win in the final reversed-grid race of the weekend added to a second place and an eighth place earlier in the day to move him eight points clear at the head of the points standings as the championship nears its halfway point. His results and those of Honda team-mate Gordon Shedden also helped consolidate the Honda Racing Team’s position at the head of the Manufacturers’ and Constructors’ standings.
Neal’s race three win capped a stunning fight through the pack from the fourth row of the starting grid and gave him his 43rd career victory in the BTCC. Neal, 43, said: “I am over the moon with the way things have gone this weekend. We came to the circuit with a full load of 45kgs of success ballast because we were leading the championship and that made qualifying really tough. Despite that, we worked hard on the set-up of the car and when we were running without ballast in race two, the car was stunning. It was really strong in the fast corners and I could really push with it.”
Scotsman Gordon Shedden’s weekend started off strongly with a front row qualifying position and second place finish in the opening race of the weekend in his Honda Racing Team Civic. However, a driveshaft failure halted his charge early on in race two when he was running competitively and he then slipped out of the top ten in the final event when his brakes wore through.
“It’s been encouraging and heartbreaking at the same time,” said Flash. “We have shown that we have got superb pace from the car because I qualified at the front and set the fastest lap – including the lap record – in two of the three races. We have let some big chances go and we aren’t scoring the kind of points we deserve at the moment. The luck has got to change at some point.”
Honda Racing Team boss Steve Neal said that the speed of both of the cars over the weekend had shown that the championship was a realistic target for Neal and Shedden. “This is the most competitive tin-top championship in the world at the moment and we are sitting at the top of it,” said Steve Neal. “That’s a testament to a great car and the great work that the team is doing but we can’t sit still. Oulton Park has shown that it is still very close and we need to keep pushing to win.”
British Touring Car Championship standings (after Oulton Park): 1. Matt Neal, Honda Racing Team, Honda Civic (98)
2. Jason Plato, Racing Silverline, Chevrolet Lacetti (90)
3. Steven Kane, Airwaves BMW, BMW 320si (82)
4. Tom Onslow-Cole, Team Aon, Ford Focus (76)
5. Mat Jackson, Airwaves BMW, BMW 320si (73)
6. Gordon Shedden, Honda Racing Team, Honda Civic (64) Next round: Croft (North Yorkshire) June 19/20
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