2016 Honda CR-V

The Honda CR-V stakes its compact-SUV affirmation on ancestors matters. It's not the quickest, a lot of active crossover account car on the road, but it's one of the a lot of space-efficient and one of the a lot of comfortable. But while it gets acclaim for packaging, the CR-V is just an boilerplate performer, and its contempo crash-test array accept been mixed.

The CR-V's rivals cover cars like the Chevy Equinox used Japaneses car dealer, the Ford Escape, the Hyundai Tucson, the Toyota RAV4, and the Kia Sportage.

For the 2015 archetypal year, the CR-V was adapted with a beginning autonomous and new front- and rear-end administration that bankrupt up its abstruse attending considerably. From the outside, the attending is added carefully angry to the baby Fit and HR-V hatchbacks, and to the accessible 2016 Civic sedan, too. Its actualization is added tidy now, but the CR-V can attending bulky, abnormally from the rear, area Honda masks the alpine burden bay with an upswept, triangular window. It's accomplished for ancestors duty, but the all-embracing appearance lacks the ability and detail of, say, the new Hyundai Tucson.

Inside, the freshened-up berth wears bigger plastics and bigger graining than it did afore the 2015 archetypal year. The anatomic and simple dashboard serves it well, with altitude controls just beneath audio controls, and an continued seven-inch touchscreen affectation for the audio arrangement on all but the abject model.
There's just a individual power train offered on the 2016 CR-V, and straight-line achievement is middling. The 2.4-liter four-cylinder has absolute bang and is accompanying to a continuously capricious manual (CVT) for actual acceptable ammunition economy--up to 33 afar per gallon highway. It's neither decidedly fast nor sporty, but that's not what hundreds of bags of buyers a year are searching for, according to Honda's sales stats.

Handling, too, is just average, but it hasn't captivated the CR-V back. The abeyance is acquainted for a softer ride over crisper responses, and council is anticipated and not at all aggressive. It's even-handed, not at all sporty--and even the alternative all-wheel-drive arrangement is added an all-weather basic than a trail-riding companion, like the systems begin in the Subaru Forester or the Jeep Renegade.

Where the CR-V puts its best and accomplished accomplishment is into amplitude and utility. Almost a mid-sizer by raw dimensions, the CR-V has accomplished autonomous amplitude for its all-embracing size, and fits it with one of the a lot of able folding seats in its class, accumulated with absorbing back-seat abundance and acceptable ride abundance in general. Flipping and folding the aback seats is simple: just accessible one of the aback doors, and with one arm and a simple cull of a strap, in a actual aqueous motion the lower beanbag tumbles avant-garde into the foot well, the beanbag angles forward, and the rear seatback flips forward, all tucking about abaft the foreground seat, to a absolutely collapsed position. Burden loading is aswell a snap, as the liftover acme is beneath than 24 inches. And up front, there's a minivan-like alternative of cupholders, cubbies, and burden trays in the redesigned console, including a accumulator bin blimp with USB ports, a 12-volt charger, even an HDMI jack.

Safety has consistently been a affairs point for the CR-V, but array from the National Artery Traffic Assurance Administration (NHTSA) fell to four stars all-embracing endure year, and haven't been adapted yet for 2016. It's an abnormal development, back for 2015 Honda redesigned the CR-V's foreground end to lath the new small-overlap analysis performed by the IIHS--which calls the SUV a Top Assurance Pick+. On the assurance agenda of accessories are the able LaneWatch camera in the appropriate aperture mirror; it shows an angel of the car's dark atom on the centermost birr affectation if the disciplinarian signals for a appropriate about-face or lane change. It's accepted on all but the abject LX, while a rearview camera is accepted above the board. A host of avant-garde cyberbanking active-safety systems like adaptive cruise ascendancy are available--but alone on the Touring edition.

The CR-V keeps clip with the bazaar in agreement of connectivity, and it includes a ample affection set. The abject LX is a low-volume vehicle, and a lot of buyers will accept the mid-level EX or EX-L models. But if you wish account like a aeronautics arrangement or digital radio, you may accept to move up two accomplish above the a lot of accepted EX archetypal to the EX-L Navi trim--or to the new Touring trim for that assurance package.