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Commerical time: Honda See are EX

June 10, 2010 / / 1 Comment


It is almost two weeks since I last posted a commercial, so how about these CR-X commercials? They surely are typical early 80s commercials with their music by Salon Music and their comic like photo animation!

The name CRX was even more cleverly chosen than the, already famous, SX designation. The song pronounces it clearly as See are EX. Now guess what you could get if you bought this car??

Another one:

And another one with different music:

Now compare that to the Japanese CR-Z commercial:

It looks like they still like the copy-paste functionality and the retro-electro music could almost be 80s if it weren’t for the voice pitch tuning…

Video: CRX 4×4 somewhere in Holland

March 27, 2010 / / 0 Comments

Now this is the weirdest 4×4 I’ve seen for a while: a Honda CRX 4×4!

I found a video on a (Honda related) Minkara and when looking at some other videos posted by its uploader it revealed the 4×4 CRX was actually from the Netherlands! Now that’s social media: finding stuff on the other side of the planet that actually happens around the corner! :D


I found it is actually for sale as well:
CRX 4×4 for sale

According to the information I found in the ad (and another one) the CRX shell is placed on top of a Nissan Patrol with a 3.3 liter turbo diesel engine. Now that’s a fun machine! :)

DOTS: Honda CRX Mk1

September 6, 2009 / / 2 Comments

I was taking an rural country road to prevent traffic in Hungary on a very busy main road. In one of the small villages I spotted this Honda CRX Mark 1:
Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary
Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary

I think it was at least 2 years ago I saw the previous CRX Mk1, so it is quite a rarity in the Netherlands nowadays. I was quite happy to see such an “old” car and even drove back to take a few snapshots of it:
Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary
Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary

It was parked next to the common Hungarian small village gutter (see also the DOTS Subaru Justy) next to a mildly tuned Beemer E34 5 series.

Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary
Honda CRX Mk1 in Hungary

The CRX itself looked a bit more tuned than the Beemer and features a set of deep dish steelies, a Mk2 (?) spoiler, aftermarket bumpers and sideskirts and a bigger exhaust. And even though it was all ziptied together, I must say it looked alright to me! (???)

Model cars by Jon2

June 10, 2009 / / 0 Comments

I still remember my first model car kit: it was a modified König Ferarri Testarossa. It took me more than a month to complete it and it looked…uhm…interesting… After that model kit I tried my luck with another, but the result remained the same: it looked like crap!

So I decided model kits were not the thing for me. Then I forgot about it and made the same mistake by buying a Oh My Goddess! Belldandy model and tried to do it right this time. It is still looking great in half completed state. ;)

That’s why I have a lot of respect for the people who are capable of doing model kits and doing them the right way. For example I came across joh2 on Youtube who posted amazing videos of his model kits in all different states/steps of completion. My personal favorite is this red 4 door Toyota Corolla TE71:

I really like his personal touches, like the black vinyl roof (my dads TA60 Carina used to have one!), the sunroof, the hood scoop and the trunk spoiler!

Another great one is this second generation CRX:

And his last creation, a Corolla Levin AE86:

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