More images have sur­faced from a leaked video fo the new 2011 Honda CR-​​Z (Compact Renais­sance Zero) in action.

Mmm…yummy

The hot hatch is expected to debut some­time late in 2010 for the JDM, early 2011 for Aus­tralia, and the sec­ond half of 2010 for the USA with no word on the Euro­pean maket.

The CR-​​Z will carry a 84kW (@6000 rpm) 1.5 litre four-​​cylinder petrol engine  cou­pled with a 10kW elec­tric motor in Japan, with the pos­si­bil­ity of a 1.8 litre petrol only model for the US mar­ket. The petrol engine is expected to pro­duce 145nM of torque, sup­ple­mented by a fur­ther 77nM from the elec­tric motor (1000rpm) and mated to a CVT auto or 6-​​speed manual.

The 2011 Honda CR-​​Z

Accord­ing to Auto­blog, all 300 lim­ited edi­tion Type R based Mugen RR Civics have been either bought or reserved.

On Sep­tem­ber 14th at 9:00 AM local time in Japan, reser­va­tions opened for the RR. By 9:10 AM all reser­va­tion slots were filled, well in advance of the release date expected around Jan­u­ary. Capa­ble of doing Tsukuba in 1:06:38, the RR sets each new owner back a hefty �4.7million, but comes with a mighty 177kW nat­u­rally aspi­rated 4 cylin­der and weighs just 1240kg in full trim.

N/​A Monster

Imag­ine it. A light 4 door 1240kg car, 4 cylin­ders, 177KW of power and one angry look­ing face. Nat­u­rally aspi­rated. Ohh and also did we men­tion nat­u­rally aspirated?

Enter the new UK built, JDM Spec MUGEN RR Civic Type R, com­ing to Aus­tralia with a N/​A engine so pow­er­ful it has the ADM spec WRX backed into a cor­ner with it’s 2.5L Boxer Turbo engine (169KW) and out­pow­ers the newly released stan­dard Type R with it’s 168KW.

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The MUGEN option adds tonnes of alu­minium and car­bon to keep the weight down, sav­ing around 15kg over the stan­dard Type R (as if the Type R can even be called ‘stan­dard’) as well as sig­na­ture MUGEN styling cues, a 10mm lower ride height, light­weight black rims, dual exhaust and free flow induc­tion, Potenza RE070RR tyres, adjustable sports dampers, and a close ratio, 6 speed gear box. Phew! That’s before any word on the inte­rior, which we expect will be a level above the newly debuted Civic Type R hatch that just came to Australia.

Accord­ing to Honda, the Mugen RR will be hand built to order, and only a lim­ited run of 300 being slated for the Aus­tralian mar­ket, so this is a unique car in many ways.