Test drive Honda CR-V 2007-2009 SUV

The crossover is not

New Honda CR-V? So there is no such car! There is no in the sense that it is impossible to acquire it. For a month, a modest dealer quota for this year was grabbed for a month and now orders for a crossover are accepted with an open date. That is, the real delivery time will not be called. So is it worth it for this car to suffer expectation?
 

Without getting behind the wheel, it is not easy to give an affirmative answer. At first glance, CR-V cannot be called the first guy in the village. This is only talking about appearance. The car is quite good if you look at it both from behind, and from the side or a little on top.
 

But in front, the headlights seem small, and the bumper protruding forward, like a protruding lower lip, visually reduces them. With its proportions in the front of the Honda, it resembles Ssangyong off -road models not the most juicy compliment, agree! Another thing is the design of the salon, which gives mainly positive emotions. The steering wheel here is almost perfect: convenient in girth, elegant in shape and pleasant to the touch. To match him and all the elements of the interior design. Everything is designed in a single color scheme of black, dark blue and silver tones.
 

I would like to call CR-V the universal not increased cross-country ability, but rather increased capacity, since the space for all the life credo of the new Honda salon.
 

And the seats are good. Bright lateral support, while impressing the driver forcing the driver between two supports, is great! The original parking brake lever is very convenient: in the middle of the central tunnel. Pleasant fonts, understandable icons (devices are excellently read) tunes everything in a complacent way. Everything except the running line of fuel consumption, which was also in the CR-V of the previous generation, watch how, with more or less active dispersal, it is selected at the mark of 20 a heavy test for the nervous system.
 

From any Honda you expect prohibitive dynamics, but you can’t argue with numbers. For a one and a half -ton car, an engine with a capacity of 150 liters. With. Not God the news is what a driving force. And indeed: on a straight line, in ideal road conditions, when the driver only needs to be reaping for gas, the car does not really go. In any case, slower than we would like.

  

The Kick Dawn mode seems to be absent at all. More or less acceptable acceleration begins in the range from 3,000 to 3500 revolutions, but the machine will not allow itself any impulses and aspirations in the future. So, slight acceleration.
 

Unlike Japanese competitors, Honda, Honda has not become a truly all-wheel drive car. The front -wheel drive is constantly turned on here, and the rear wheels are connected only when the front ones begin to slip. Constant all -wheel drive is useful, but, as I think the Hondians, irrationally. And the connected is convenient, practical and allows you not to spend gasoline in vain!
 

But the pendant CR-V Pweyhs can be singing endlessly. A smooth move is guaranteed even where the wheel of the asphalt rink never stepped. The irregularities of tram tracks are eaten with the minimum transfer of unpleasant shaking to the body. True, it is necessary to storm the irregularities carefully.
 

The road clearance of CR-V is almost like the city sedan: 175 mm. Despite the reduced center of the mass and the thicker rear reptile stabilizer, the comfortable orientation of the suspension affects the turns: when even a slight deviation from the straightforward course causes a noticeable roll.
 

Prices
The minimum amount equivalent to the new CR-V is $ 33 800. The 2.0-liter 150-horsepower engine, 6-speed gearbox, all-wheel drive, ABS, EBD, VSA, TSA (stabilization of the trailer), frontal, lateral and security curtains, are included. Air conditioning, adjustable in four directions, steering column, electric drive and heating of the side glasses, headlight washer, central castle. Automatic checkpoint is available from $ 36 800.
 

However, the car remains absolutely obedient and adequate, and the severity of control and excellent settings of the electric power is pulled to sit behind its steering wheel again and again.

Nevertheless, I would like to call CR-V the universal of not increased cross-country ability, but rather increased capacity, since the space for all the life credo of the new Honda salon. When you sit alone in the back seat, an amazing, not at all a car sensation arises: the front passenger is somewhere far, far away, and in front of you is the vast space of the Honda salon. At the same time, the car practically did not grow compared to the previous generation, but the contrast

  

The rear seats are divided in balance 60:40, and the backs are 40:20:40. At the same time, the seats can move back and forth, allowing you to increase the space of the luggage compartment. In addition, the backs are leaning back to achieve greater comfort. Is there too many compliments for the car? By no means! Although the new CR-V generation is surprising by some solutions (say, an external design and engine choice), in general, makes you regret that it is not in your modest automobile park.
 

Honda has not become a truly all-wheel drive car. The front -wheel drive is constantly turned on here, and the rear wheels are connected only when the front ones begin to slip.
 

However, you always look at the deficit in a special way: swallowing saliva and noticing first of all what others do not have. And CR-V involuntarily has to be treated as an exhibit in the museum, because in the near future you still can’t buy!
 

The car was provided for the test by the official dealer of Honda, Ralph Art Division


Text: Philip Berezin
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 
 
 

A source: Wheel magazine [No. 115/2007]