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This marked a significant change in design direction for Honda. Out went the edgy wedgy look and in came more mature, curved styling. It divided opinion, but whether you thought it more modern and contemporary with its softer lines and smaller greenhouse, or less interesting without its taut, creased look, it still packaged a vast amount of innovation into a small package. In came a more powerful and more miserly range of engines, airbags and anti-lock brakes, and few will forget its daft split tailgate. This pointless rear hatch layout answered a question no one had voiced.
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Sadly, Honda also chose to point the CRX down the same design route. The manic CRX was reincarnated as a frumpy and dull convertible with a complicated detachable roof. Blame the Americans, for which the Del Sol - the CRX's nom de plume - was developed. Honda fans would have to wait almost a decade until the searing Type R for the return of a desirable hot Civic. Despite this, the Civic's best-seller status was unharmed and in Japan and America it sold in droves.
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