Review: Honda CR-V - Irish Car+Travel (blog)
When Honda brought us their revised CR-V for 2015 earlier this year, there were very visible exterior and inside changes, writes Brian Byrne . New lights, grille, bumpers, wheel styles among them. Inside, new seat fabrics, extra chrome bits, a higher level of materials, and the availability of Honda’s Connect system from the middle grade. But the key change is the new 1. 6 diesel engine, replacing the 2. 2 that had soldiered for quite a number of years in Honda products. It’s more powerful, more efficient, and a 9-speed auto replaces the previous 5-speed in the automatic versions. So even though this is technically a facelift of the CR-V that was rolled out in 2011, it is a fairly significant upgrade in many ways. For review, I’ve been driving at the CR-V upper levels, an EX grade with AWD, and with the optional Honda Sensing package with includes a lane keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, a collision mitigation braking system that monitors oncoming... In addition, and standard to the grade, it had the Dynamic Safety Pack which bundled warnings for impending forward collision or lane departure without signalling, a cross-traffic monitor, blindspot information, traffic sign recognition, and... Source: www.carandtravel.eu
