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Honda’s bestseller comes at a high price
Honda has launched the fifth generation of its popular CR-V
Remember the original Honda CR-V? It was a great package in the early days of smaller SUV models, but what stood out for me was not its styling, its comfort or its performance — it was the picnic table that was designed as the floor of the boot and which you could remove on a Sunday afternoon to chill out with friends. It was a superb piece of design and it is so disappointing that Honda dropped it. That picnic table reflected the notion that the CR-V, like many other models of its genre, are lifestyle vehicles. In fact, it is probably even more true today, with SUV sales on the rise around the world at the expense of the traditional sedan. The SUV has become the single family vehicle, utilised at weekends to get out of town with the family, only today you have to have enough boot space to load in a separate picnic table. Enough about the picnic table though, because Honda has launched the fifth generation of its CR-V. Nine million have been sold worldwide since the CR-V was first l...
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