2015 Honda CR-V Are you an aspiring New or Used Car Buyer looking for your dream car? Visit Cars4sa.co.za Filed under: Crossover, Honda, First Drives Predicting the future direction of Hondas compact CR-V would have been difficult based on the Civic-derived model that first arrived on our shores for the 1997 model year. The newcomer, selling alongside the body-on-frame Passport (a hastily rebadged Isuzu Rodeo), was a cute compact crossover with four doors and an awkward curb-side hinged tailgate thanks to its Japanese home-market design. The five-passenger CUV offered generous interior room, but its wheezy 2.0-liter four-cylinder, with an output of just 126 horsepower and 133 pound-feet of torque, required 11.7 seconds to bring the 3,153-pound vehicle to 60 miles per hour. Rear drum brakes didnt help much in the stopping department, but Honda offered safety-minded consumers optional anti-lock brakes on the premium trim. Nearly two decades after its introduction, the CR-V has matured in spectacular manner. The refreshed 2015 Honda CR-V, now in its fourth generation, is dimensionally within two inches of its ancestor in overall length and nearly identical in height and wheelbase. That consistency of dimension is impressive in this age of size and segment creep, and it stands as a testament to how right Honda engineers got the models original packaging. Of course, the CR-V hasnt stood still - nearly everything else about the best-selling compact CUV has improved in leaps and bounds. But Honda is not the only player in this hotly contested segment today, so the automaker has taken the unusual step of updating its fourth-generation model just a few years after its introduction in an effort to keep it seated on the podium. To learn more about the automakers improvements, and form our own impressions, we spent a day driving the CR-V in sunny Southern California. Continue reading 2015 Honda CR-V 2015 Honda CR-V originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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