One option I did miss is the integrated middle arm-rest, which is available on the $1,195 essentials package, although it seems pricey for an armrest, rubber mats and an auto-dimming rearview mirror.No. Wait.
You have to read it the way Honda Marketing intended it to be read:
http://www.honda.ca/crz#/crz/parts-accessories 1) The armrest comes WITH STORAGE inside. Like, you can use the space that exists INSIDE it. Get it? The basic idea was for a $20 plastic armrest, a $5 lid and $350 for the right to use the space that Honda allowed to exist inside: Genius engineering and an opportunity to advance into corporate level accessory marketing campaign level III.
2) The auto-dimming rear view mirror comes with, get this, a
compass. This is a fairly new, modern, development (247 B.C) that can be used as a backup for your GPS and smart-phone mapping system in case you get seriously lost on your way back home. I remember my grandfather's '74 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham had one of these standard. Anyway, that's not the point. Honda must have a dozen or so containers full of these things laying around in the patio and had to come with a plan to unload it all before the next century. Hey why not? Compass costs $12, '
the attachment' goes for $200 and the dimming feature comes for free because nobody in the Marketing Department knows how the physics on it works anyway.
3) Finally, the rubber mats: Well, get this, they are ALL SEASON RUBBER MATS. See, you can use them all-year round. No longer just during Spring. Or Winter: ALL SEASONS. No more worries about mats evaporating, melting or disintegrating due to change of seasons. This is worth at least $160 or so per mat (you'll need four).
BTW while you are configuring your CRZ, you may want to double-check that the ADD guys making the website are not the same ones putting the car together while the Quality Control guys are out on the weekly team-building event. Honda is listing 17" alloy wheels as an interior accessory and the engine block heater as exterior accessory. Maybe they envision the customer leaving the lot with a set of $2,200 wheels inside the car and a $200 block heater extension dangling outside.