Differences in USDM, EDM, JDM CR-Z

[wingless]

Originally Posted by Big-mowley

My car due June 20th. White GT top spec car; Has virtually everything:
Leather, back seats, moonroof (a non opening sunroof, IE a window!), Hid lights inc wash, parking sensors, bluetooth, heated seats, auto lights/wipers, climate, front fogs, sat nav, folding mirrors, upgrate sound, privacy glass, etc etc. There are UK 2 lower specs. The sport that looses leather, heated seats, moonroof, Hid lights, bluetooth, fogs and auot lights/wipers. and the S (poverty spec) model that looses even more bits!
In UK you cannot specify any useful bits on lower spec cars IE Bluetooth or nav on an S or a sport. Very annoying and forces people into the top spec more expensive varient.

The GT is a nice configuration, w/ the larger engine and the glass roof, but they force the leather seats.

Thank goodness the manufacturers know better than the owners how to configure a vehicle.

Maybe someone will invent a tool that would automate data entry to permit selecting a configuration, to add and delete bits as desired / required.

That way interested parties could special-order a vehicle, wait three months and get exactly what they want.

It would be WAY cool if the exterior and interior colors could be selected from the spectrum, like Porsche permits for special orders, or non-US Mercedes permits w/ their plethora of Designo color options. The prices for those options are appropriate for the service.

There is a rumor that the customer is always right.

Who is paying for the vehicle anyways?

[CR-Z Insight]

Really????? Push button start???? Has carpal tunnel syndrome from turning a key really affected everyone that much? Just thinking about having to turn a key makes my wrist hurt.

[bizzybear]

lol... if it wasn't available anywhere else it wouldn't be that big of a deal... but if it IS an option somewhere else, why not at least make it an add on here??

side note: even with the push-start OR keyless start you still need to turn either the key then push the button OR turn the fob then push the button... so either way you're still turning something...

i prefer the button for cleanliness of the layout... and so i can keep the key in my pocket

[dorifuto.boi]

could someone please explain to me what honda satelite navigation is ?
yeah its a gps. i KNOW. but is there anything special about it BESIDES it being a gps ? cause i don't need a gps built into my car.
seems like the cr-zs in all three market has this honda satellite navigation thing right ?

[bizzybear]

Originally Posted by dorifuto.boi

could someone please explain to me what honda satelite navigation is ?
yeah its a gps. i KNOW. but is there anything special about it BESIDES it being a gps ? cause i don't need a gps built into my car.
seems like the cr-zs in all three market has this honda satellite navigation thing right ?

yes all markets have it but as far as i know, only in Japan do you get to choose from various GPS systems ie: Gathers, Alpine, etc...

i'm just going to give a list of features from my knowledge of having one in my '06 Si... aside from literally being the best/easy to use GPS on the market out of any OEM Navigation systems... it comes with extra features like:

• Made by Alpine or Pioneer (i forget which lol)
• XM built-in (non-navi models come XM-ready but you would still need to purchase additional components to make it work)
• Bluetooth compatible for phone use
• Easy to read/select music vs the single-line digital screen... TRUST me this is a really great feature to have
• Media-card slot reader for SD cards, etc
• Easier to use (IMO) than an aftermarket out of the box GPS
• Looks better than the standard radio (personal opinion)
• Steering wheel buttons for easier use and less distraction
• Breadcrumbs (cool feature that saves everywhere you've been in case you go off-road and need to backtrack)
• Harder for thieves to steal and locks up immediately if they do so your personal information/addresses are safe

Acura Navigation gets extra features like

• Zagat rating for restaurants
• Real-time weather
• Real-time traffic
• HDD for saving music directly to the car

this is a feature i haven't seen in the US but seems to be a new feature for JDM...

• Automatically view, track, record, and sync your mpg numbers with an online account... hopefully that feature would come here to the US...

that is all i can think of off the top of my head... since the official specs aren't out yet we can't assume everything about it yet... but we can hope that since the CR-Z is supposed to be quite a jump forward for Honda, they might just give the US market some of the Acura/JDM goodies...

[YLA]

I believe the sunroof is only on the GT version for EU and Asian and not in an option

[bizzybear]

Originally Posted by YLA

I believe the sunroof is only on the GT version for EU and Asian and not in an option

this thread doesn't break down each spec/trim for each country... just the availability of different features in each country...

[bizzybear]

added "Integrated Turn Indicators" as standard on ALL CR-Z worldwide

[cord77]

The SatNav option in the GT UK model is an older style of the Honda SatNav (ie, it uses DVD for the map, there is no SD option). The dealer couldn't believe they did this since he is driving an 2 year older Civic and that has the newer SD SatNav in it. Also they want to charge £1,700 for just that SatNav option. There was no way I was going to get that.

Instead I've gone for a Parrot 3100LCD HFT which is costing £150 including pro-fitting by specialists (they've already sent the showroom car to them to discover the best positions for installation, I've chosen just at the bottom of the A-Frame pillar on the drivers side). The HFT shows mobile signal strength, caller information and can do hands free dialing, and is of course integrated into the cars stereo for hearing calls better.

I do want SatNav though (I currently have a TomTom GO 930 in the Jazz), but I also just bought an iPhone 4 and am looking at the options of using that as my CR-Z SatNav. After using an internet connected smart phone, I can see the potential flexibility of it. For instance you can get in your car, open google maps, search for any business, and you can press 1 button to transfer the address to the GPS destination. Also you can navigate to someone in your contacts list.

The only down side is having to locate it somewhere on the dash/screen, and having a power cable trailing around the dash.

[YLA]

Found out another thing

I see pictures of CR-Z's with a wipper on the back.. is this only for GT or a certain part? I believe that its not existing in EU