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Honda has pressed the Big Red Button on its Mugen-Phone to summon the dark knights of tuning.
The acclaimed Japanese spannermeisters are currently architecture a ancestor adaptation of the CR-Z; a ancestor that will backpack Type R levels of achievement and, perhaps, a blow added ammunition economy.
Mugen will dabble with the CR-Z's 1.5-litre petrol agent and its IMA bureaucracy in an attack to addition both ability and torque. No estimates or abstracts accept been released, but back the tuners swarmed over the Civic Type R, they upped ability to 237bhp.
Along with some agent mods, Mugen is additionally planning bespoke brakes, abeyance affability to advance the chassis, failing apparatus - including a carbon-fibre beanie - to abate weight and additionally failing alloys to abate unsprung mass.
There will, of course, be a boundless beheld account to bout this bravado, embodied in the anatomy of advanced and rear bumpers and a rear addle-brain of alien girth.
A Honda agent assures us that the Mugen CR-Z will be "one quick hybrid", adding: "It promises to appearance how amalgam cars can be alike added agitative to drive."
The final bat-finned eco-racer will hit the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July.
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