Category: Small 4x4s 
Price Range: £19,030 to £25,130
Comfortable and well equipped, with superb ride quality.
Not quick and not pretty.
Terrific family transport, but now so on-road orientated that it may as well be a proper car.
From £19,000 to £25,000. On sale in the UK from January 2007.
Despite the CR-V's greater use of light but strong high-tensile steel, and a generous allocation of airbags and ISOFIX child seat fixing points the Honda misses out on the coveted five-star rating for adult occupant safety in the Euro NCAP crash tests, dropping a star for the potential risk of a leg injury in testing. Making up, the CR-V receives an excellent four stars for child protection and two (out of four) for a pedestrian impact.
All CR-Vs come with four-channel anti-lock braking and Electronic Brake-force Distribution, which between them aim to stop you quickly and steadily. There's also Honda's stability control system, VSA (Vehicle Stability Assist), which can brake individual wheels and ease off the throttle for you if it's all getting a bit frisky.
ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control), which is optional with EX specification, is a cruise control system that can intervene if it suspects you've not spotted how close you're getting to the vehicle in front. CMBS (Collision Mitigation Braking System), another option, goes further. If you're closing in too much, too quickly, it first sounds a warning, then applies light braking and simultaneously tugs on the seatbelt to reinforce the warning, and finally in stage three it brakes more heavily and tightens the seatbelts.
