Facelift leaves CRV lacking - Express.co.uk
As well as returning to Formula One with McLaren (albeit disastrously so far), there is the new Civic Type R and the new NSX supercar together with the HRV crossover and the new Jazz supermini, all before we have got to this refreshed CRV. With some 750,000 sales since the CRV first arrived in 1997 (almost 50,000 last year alone), there is no question that the CRV is a massive success story for Honda. It may no longer be produced at Swindon, but Honda needs this face-lifted CRV and those future models to work with, overall sales across Europe having more than halved since 2007. The reasons for that drop are numerous, but in many ways perfectly... With that thankfully gone, in its place is a new 1. 6-litre turbo-diesel available in two versions with 120bhp or 160bhp, the latter of which is tested here. There is no question that the new downsized engine, with more power and grunt than the old larger diesel, makes a lot of sense in 160bhp guise, even if it is only available with four-wheel drive and not in two-wheel drive like the other two... With a 0 to 60mph time of 9. 7 seconds and a 122mph top speed, the CRV also returns 55. 4mpg average fuel economy and 139g/km emissions in flagship EX spec. Source: www.express.co.uk
