the restyled headlights new grill address your fog lights on the 2015
honda CR-V we're going to start to look pretty familiar in a while
that's because the CRV is perennial e one of the best-selling SUVs in the
country so you're going to start to see a lot of these on the road but the
visual updates signal a lot that's different for 2015
let's see if the cr-v has what it takes to stay on top now the current gen cr-v
goes all the way back to 2012 never really been kind of that interesting to
look at but the 2015 updates to add a little bit of visual interest here
you've got leds that kind of encircle the headlights here
a new kind of more creased grill that takes over from the old three bar design
which really dominated the nose
so it does stick out a little bit more among small SUVs
let's take a look at the inside carv retains one of its biggest draws and
that's a lot of kind of utilitarian functionality on the inside things like
a conversation mirror here to talk to people and back a nice upright seating
position with good sight lines thanks to tall windows and relatively narrow
pillars all around you
all of that is still here to stay which is a good thing up a few material
differences dress your door handles now a nicer woven material along the Sun
visors
but still no improvement kinda to the doors up here which have pretty cheap
materials things like not enough armrest padding here a lot of hard touch kind of
cheap plastic along the upper doors very strange that haunted didn't invest in
that because the company did invest in nicer dashboard materials here
not sure why didn't just leave the dashboard the same and instead throw the
money into their now most trim levels get this 7-inch screen here same similar
system to what's in the honda civic without the capacitive touch controls
from the civic which are a good thing because capacitive touch kind of doesn't
really have a place in cars but it seems like what Honda did was to make this
sort of 11th hour design change and so what you've got over here are these tiny
little buttons for things like stereo volume home screen a back button really
not easy to use most of our editors found things like scrolling a swiping
functionality works on some screens but then you get over to other screens and
and it doesn't really work here so you end up having to go over different menus
with different buttons a lot of sub menus to kind of work through not really
the best setup overall now a couple other utility things still have
dual-level storage areas here along the doors which is nice
it's also a nice big kind of wide glove compartment but what the crv used to
have was a nice low center console here that actually had a lot of space and
open up a lot of room for kind of your thighs to end up in you had flipped down
armrest instead of this center armrest right here instead now there's a very
big kind of bulky center console the console itself seems a lot smaller than
it used to be
you do get AC vents that kind of direct manner to the people and back which the
last year we didn't have but how to say you kind of sacrifice a lot to get there
still there are a lot of qualities of small families will like about the crv
particularly like the cargo area about 35 cubic feet of space here behind the
rear seats but just looking out wide and low this opening is there's not a lip
here that you have to lift cargo over to get it in a very easy to just sort of
chuck it in the seats fold down a lot of moving parts there between the seat
cushions and seatbacks head restraints but they all work in very quick fashion
here with these cargo handles cargo area handles and that makes for a very low
kind of unbroken load floor area
not a lot of things you have to kind of maneuver over makes it very easy to do
things like throw in a bike right here without having to take off the wheel
not exactly something you can do in a lot of small suvs new four-cylinder
engine and CVT automatic transmission combined for a fairly responsive passing
power and actually very very good gas mileage for this segment
ride quality something that the current gen cr-v has always been pretty good at
actually remains very sound we like that a lot
so maybe three steps forward half a step backward for the 2015 cr-v but one of
those steps forward very importantly is gas mileage so a lot of value
a lot of utility in the 2015 honda crv something that anyone shopping this
segment is still going to want to check out
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