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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Honda HR-V

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Hobbies, Automotive, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0

It is the brand new 2020-300HRV, a massive update used to be on the special platform.

0:07.2

This is now on the Civic CR-V platform, so it's gotten significantly bigger already.

0:11.6

Yes, it is the global modular architecture and it shares the best of the CR-V and the

0:16.3

best of the Civic.

0:17.3

It's kind of like a tall Civic is how it turned out, but I can see why Honda built this

0:21.8

because if you love the Civic but you want more cargo space and you want a bigger hatch,

0:27.0

this is what you need to look at.

0:28.5

Well, because the world only cares about CUVs, and this is actually the number two selling

0:34.5

compact CUV has been the Honda HRV and it has been we.

0:38.9

It has been little business, of course the fit has always had great space and always

0:43.5

had really interesting foldable seats.

0:45.0

That's gone here because we're going to the Civic architecture, but the Civic architecture

0:49.0

with the CR-V architecture makes me ask a question I've asked before.

0:52.3

Oh, okay.

0:53.3

Honda has the passport, which is the five-seat, slightly smaller, slightly more durable

0:57.7

version of the pilot.

0:58.7

Yeah.

0:59.7

And they have this, which is now built on the same platform as the CR-V, so I'm going

1:02.5

to ask the question again of Honda and of you, why does the CR-V exist?

1:06.9

CR-V was kind of first.

1:09.4

That's now associated in buyers' minds as the SUV to get, then when they go to the dealership

1:14.0

and find other options, they go, oh, maybe we'll spend more, maybe we need more space,

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