Honda CR-V Hybrid UK Review - Should You Buy One in 2022?
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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In a sign of the times, the Honda CR-V now only comes with a self charging hybrid engine. That change of focus comes along with a light update inside and out. Otherwise though, essential character of this fifth generation design hasn't changed. Nor has its primary rival, the Toyota RAV4.
Market and Model
Extra technology has to be accompanied by plumper pricing, which is why the CR-V range now starts from just over £30,000. A few extra items of equipment are added in here to sugar the pill, including smarter 18-inch alloy wheels and, on the flagship 'EX' spec, standard wireless smartphone charging. There's a choice of five trim levels, 'S', 'SE', 'SR', 'Sport Line' and 'EX'. Even base 'S' models get full-LED headlamps, an 8-speaker DAB audio system and powered lumbar support. The most obvious rival to this car is the similarly priced Toyota RAV4 hybrid; you might also consider HEV hybrid versions of the Kia Sportage and the Hyundai Tucson. All other class contenders use either nominal mild hybrid technology, or pricey plug-in PHEV tech.
All CR-V variants get a very high standard of safety kit, with the 'Honda Sensing' package offering one of the most comprehensive suite of active safety and driver assistive technologies in the class, combining radar and camera tech. Included are 'Forward Collision Warning', a 'Collision Mitigating Braking' system, a 'Lane Keep Assist' system, 'Lane Departure Warning', 'Road Departure Mitigation' and 'Traffic Sign Recognition'. The basic design is pretty safe too, thanks to Honda's 'ACE' 'Advanced Compatibility Engineering' body structure design technology, which employs a network of connected structural elements to distribute crash energy more evenly.
Cost of Ownership
Let's get to the WLTP figures. For the 2WD Hybrid model, you're looking at 42.8mpg on the combined cycle and 120g/km of CO2. For the AWD Hybrid that most customers will choose, the stats are 39.8mpg and 126g/km. The overall perspective here is that once you take fuel costs into account and consider real-world efficiency, this Hybrid CR-V will cost about the same to run as the old diesel model - and be far better for the environment. And your overall running costs will be lower if you take this Hybrid's cheaper Benefit-in-Kind taxation into account. Whether all this is sufficient to justify this car's current pricing another question of course. If your annual mileage is relatively low, it may not be.
Honda provides a series of driving tools to help owners maximise possible returns. There's an engine stop/start system of course. In addition, in the 'Trip Computer' section of the 'Vehicle Info' part of the centre-dash Honda Connect screen, there are 'Current Drive' and 'Previous Drive' read-outs, plus average fuel economy and range readings, along with a 'History' section, all of it enabling you to better track your efforts towards frugality.
Summary
This is as sensible s family segment lifestyle-orientated SUV motoring gets. A car for people who look at what a vehicle can do for them rather than what it says about them. End use you see, has been the over-riding design parameter here, not cutting edge styling, clever gadgetry, irrelevant pin-sharp handling or pointlessly powerful engines. As a result, a CR-V Hybrid is an extremely easy thing to live with, the kind of car you'll own, then wonder how you managed without. That may not be a recipe for media headlines but it's an approach that other brands could certainly learn from, explaining why so many CR-Vs are bought by folk who previously owned one.
In summary, we can see why so many global customers will accept nothing less than Honda's interpretation of what an SUV of this kind should be. And what's on offer with this improved petrol/electric version is a model that could conceivably interest many more of them. Ultimately, it remains distinctively different, distinctively... CR-V. Which ultimately, might very well be all you need.
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I have this car in hybrid form. Previously I have owned Mercs, Land Rovers and Volvo’s. I am amazed by how well this car drives, how refined it is and the 50 mpg uk fuel consumption. The hybrid takes a bit of understanding, how it works and how to drive it to keep everything calm and economical but once you do that it is simply brilliant. Ignore road testers telling you how the engine flares up and the cvt is terrifying, it just isn’t unless you drive like a total clown to deliberately provoke these traits. In normal, and even quite spirited driving, none of this happens. Oh, and it doesn’t have a cvt gearbox, that is just poor research from road testers that can’t be arsed to do their job properly. Like a fully electric car, it doesn’t have a gearbox.
I have had this car for almost a year now and I love it. I understand it is dubbed as the old man’s car , but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Good mileage, easy access, good views from the drivers seat, and not having to worry damaging the rims on curbs due to its fat tires makes me love this car.
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Would buy this CRV immediately if it was available where I am currently 😂 . Have been using the previous generation and it’s extremely capable and usable and I love it to bits.
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@@OsvUkVehicleSupply Currently in India 😂. Love your videos .
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@@moonsapling 130% duty on import 😂
@@_MS__ Can you explain a bit more, you caught my interest!
I'm on my second CRV. and have covered 50k miles. Bullet proof reliability. I covered 100k miles in the previous one, without a single issue. I would like a full EV one, as the NYe1 is too small and the range is poor.
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Nice car. Honda's are well built dependable cars. If you want a sizeable SUV long-term it's a good investment over a less reliable/dependable German brand
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There's no spare wheel, so if you get a blown tyre in the middle of nowhere you're stuck with a ridiculous tube of tyre foam or gel that's totally useless.....
I don’t get it, they design the new CRV’s take away the better options like the parcel shelf that was around in 2008 model. Then they remove the spare wheel option. Made the seats hard as a burnt toast, kept the sat nav screen small as the model in 2007. Not a wow factor other than a another CRV. Nothing really to jump at. Honda’s are very reliable no engine I know that can beat a Honda Engine, it just goes on, the car may fall apart but the engine will start first time as long as it has been looked after regularly.
Honda & Toyota hybrid , nothing else.
£30 grand is a lot of readies to fork out for this vehicle but maybe in years to come when its 2nd , 3rd or 4th hand it could be useful but I'd still buy an EV that sees me out and on that score its either the Ora Cat or in '24 what I really want is the Renault 5e.
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I drive a 2.2lt CX-5 and get 53.4mpg. Blows the Honda away.
Thank you ONCE Again could I ask when are you doing a full review on the 2022 Lexus NX 350h is it because you don't rate the car or because you can't get a car to test . No one will answer my Question
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It’s subjective of course but it’s a particularly ugly car. Like I can’t think of many SUVs that look worse.
What puts you off the styling? Too basic?
@@OsvUkVehicleSupply It’s the front. The lights the grill. It’s just ugly. HRV looks great though. Bloke down the road has a new HRV and it looks very clean, very modern. The CRV though I don’t know just looks horrible from the front. I don’t mind basic cars. I don’t actually mind many suv designs. They are all essentially just two boxes, however you disguise it.
@@zappybazinga8124 I prefer the 1.5l crv because it has a different rear bumper with exhausts and better wheel designs. I like the front and it’s actually a quality car inside and out just the screen needs to be bigger which the new one has improved on which should come out later this year and that one looks really good like the new hrv