Ehibb034 wrote:I actually owned a honda cr-z. I returned it to the dealer within their 15 day no questions asked contract. The car was actually very cool to drive. It had the best manual trans of any vehicle I have ever driven. It also got amazing gas mileage. I got well over 40 mpg in that car. The Sony sound system was very nice too. For the price I thought it was a "neat" car. It had one major design flaw. When ever the car was in neutral the engine would turn off; pretty standard start stop system. The problem is that when you drive a manual, you're in nuetral a lot! Picture sitting in traffic in 100 degree weather with no a.c. bc your engine is off as you sit in nuetral. The worst one though was on a hill. There was a delay in the time it took for the engine to turn back om so when you let your foot off the clutch on the hill, the car would lag and roll back further than you wanted it to before you got power again. Sometimes this would lead to stalling. Too many compromises in my opinion.
There wasn't a way to disable the start/stop feature?
I know that start/stops are getting more popular, especially in Japan. Suzuki is offering it in their keis and the Swift, but are using capacitors or something like that to keep the A/C running effectively during the stops.
The model year for mine was a 2011 so it is possible that they came up with a way to disable it. I bought it used and the dealer I bought it from sent it to honda to make sure that what I was reporting wasn't a problem with the car. The honda techs said it was performing as designed and intended. There was a way to "trick" the engine start stop which was achieved by leaving the car in sport mode every time you drove it. This would indeed prevent the start/stop from kicking in, but it would defeat the point of having the car for its eco mode and normal mode settings. The sport mode also would drain the battery very quickly and then the car would have to revert to eco mode to give more regenrative braking juice to replenish the battery. In my opinion the start stop system would have been fine with the automatic. The a/c issue does not exist in the automatic. The biggest problem that I think they never thought about was starting on hills and traffic..the two times that a manual driver is in nuetral for the longest sustained period of time. Maybe they didn't think they would sell that many manuals?
2011 6spd. Kizashi Sport SLS. Azure Gray Metallic.
