CR-Z Mugen - how many are here in the UK?

[NorthernSky]

Happy New Year everyone.

I've been encouraged to read up and discover more about the CR-Z, one of the other threads running on this sub forum being one such post. Seems like a great little runaround car. I do love the rares, and was interested to see that Honda did make (apparently, anyway) a MUGEN version, with a supercharger to up performance to around 6 seconds to 62.

Here's a PH feature on it, but despite quite a bit of searching around, I can't find a single one for sale or any other information, blogs, etc. about these versions. Does anyone know, then, how many actually came to the UK, if at all?

Link to the review post:

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-driven/driven-...

TIA!

Edited by NorthernSky on Wednesday 2nd January 12:52

[dobly]

The real CR-Z Mugen RZ was only sold in Japan - a limited edition of 300 in one colour (blue) only.
As far as I know all 300 are still in Japan - there are 9 currently for sale on Kuruma-ex.jp which is the main online car sales website there, most for more than 20k GBP.
The orange and black car featured by Pistonheads in June 2011 was a Development Prototype from Mugen Europe, not Mugen Japan, and therefore not the same as the (low) production CR-Z Mugen RZ.
In the USA, for a year or two (2013-2015?), you could add a supercharger to your CR-Z (and some other uprated parts too) via HPD - Honda Performance Development. I'm guessing that the supercharger is the same as the Mugen one, but have no proof that it is. Again, I'm guessing that HPD is related to Mugen Japan somehow.

[JonnyVTEC]

Shame the factory for iCF kit based on the mugen stuff never did materialise to the market. Was something daft like £5k extra

[NorthernSky]

Thanks for the information you two. Shame it never took off here. I did wonder, seeing as there was practically no trace of the car online in the UK.