Yes, this. I almost bought an S, 2014 year, three years ago for around that money. I got a 981 instead, and I’m happy with that choice, but at this price, it wouldn’t even have been in the running.

So much CRZ hate. Yes, there are good parts out there. No, it’ll never be fast. But HPD suspension, a manual transmission (not the CVT, duh) and the sport exhaust make for a very fun and good-handling hatch.

It’s very, very similar. I think pulley sizes are slightly off, but otherwise, yeah, $1000 for dealer warranty. Now, if I were going to actually get the S/C, I’d get stickier rubber than stock (stock was some kind of Dunlop LRR crap for economy, though I have since replaced with extremely satisfactory Michelin PS to…

Interesting, I didn’t realize they’d done any kind of significant update in the interim, other than the IMA upgrade at some point. There was a comment earlier in the thread regarding “it should have come with a supercharger” and I agree with that too. The $5000 one they sell sounds great, but I would rather have paid…

Ok, yeah, I get the point, and you’re right: it doesn’t quite kick enough ass off the lot. I maintain that it doesn’t deserve the hate it gets, though, as a perfectly fun economy car that can be upgraded to the tune of $1200 into an extremely fun economy car, provided you don’t care that it’ll never be fast in a…

This. Everybody misses the point. I’m a happy CR-Z owner. Bought the thing fully loaded for $20k in 2011 because it wasn’t selling at all and the dealer wanted out. Manual transmission.