*Insurance quote from AA (08) for a 42-year-old in Banbury, Oxon, with three points. I know they’re different cars and in different classes, but they’re similar in price.Īnyway, with some sizeable trips planned this month, I’m certainly looking forward to putting some proper miles on the Honda. The screen is bigger than in previous CR-V models, but it struggles when compared with both the size and style of the unit in the Mercedes A-Class I ran before the Honda.
That’s not true of the infotainment system, which has been reasonably easy to use George synced his phone within a matter of seconds through the dash display. Thankfully, the safety kit remains untouched so far. There is even vehicle and trailer-stability assist, should towing be your thing.
Brake assist, forward-collision warning, lane-keep assist, traffic-sign recognition and adaptive cruise control are all present, which is great. They’re even more pleased with the twin front and rear USB ports that come as standard. Looking through our car’s spec sheet, the amount of standard safety tech included across the range impresses. Both kids are six-footers, and they’ve each remarked on the extra room they are enjoying. The CR-V is proving comfortable so far, with a high seating position and plenty of space in the back for my teenage boys, who have a lot of legroom. Of course, the CR-V gobbles up even the largest of family supermarket shops with ease, and I’m sure that the big rubber mat will protect the carpeted load area on the inevitable trips to the allotment or rubbish dump. Tina and Peter have taken turns in driving their new cars to collect shopping or medicine, but in truth neither has really dented the fuel that the cars came with. Unfortunately, with Tina and Peter at the age recommended to stay at home and self-isolate, neither vehicle has had the new-car attention they deserved. Following a brief test drive with what I imagine was one happy dealer, she traded it in on the spot for the FR-V.īoth cars were back on the driveway by mid-March only for the UK to go into lockdown a week later. She’d had some niggles with her ageing Jaguar S-Type, and after almost 20 years’ service she felt it didn’t owe her anything. While Peter completed the paperwork, Tina spotted a used FR-V. Peter contacted his local dealer in January, bought a new hybrid CR-V in EX trim, and collected it in March. How appealing? Well, enough to order his fifth CR-V in a row.
Once he was used to it, he loved the simple press-button gear selector and found pulling away smoothly, with plenty of refinement, very appealing. It was from behind the wheel that the electrically assisted acceleration really caught his imagination.
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