Wife's Accord was a EX and the CRV is a EX-L the Accord had more road noise than the CRV one of the reasons we traded. 3 Adults in the rear seat is tight but can be tolerated for short trips.
I had a CR-V and liked it a lot. Good mileage and basically trouble free. It was actually given to us by a neighbor who had crunched the top a bit with a garage door, which is why my wife eventually prevailed about getting rid of it. Oh, the embarrassment with her friends.
Another American expat told me that the CR-V was much more comfortable and with much better leg room (he's rather fat) than an Accord, which is why he got one.
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Bought a new 2004 CR-V as a daily commuter/city/country runabout and couldn't be happier with it.
The only complaint I would have is that there is some road noise particularly with the rear seat folded down, even with good replacement tires. On certain surfaces at freeway speeds it's hard to hold a conversation in the car.
But at 10 years old and 90,000 miles it's been trouble free, has consistently gotten around 21 mpg city and 26-28 cruising at 65 or 75 mph (now 80 mph) on the highway. Highway mileage is not as great as some more aerodynamic vehicles but acceptable. I didn't get it to take a lot of long trips in. With the back seat down it has enough room for 95% of the stuff I carry and the other 5% would need a full size pickup anyway. It has enough acceleration to pass on these two lane mountain roads. It has a short turning radius and is easy to get around tight parking spaces or parking lots.
It has decent ground clearance for rutty or washed out forest service roads or driving across open BLM land and it handles very well in snow. I've taken it on a few medium distance trips - drove 1200-1300 miles over three days twice this summer on freeway and mountain roads and it is comfortable to drive for long periods.
I'll keep this one for years, overall it's been a great and very reliable little utility vehicle.
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You've seen the car adv showing a crushed vehicle saying they survived!My friend, wife, and a friend of theirs was hit headon by a large American PU at highway speed. They had to be cut out of the CRV. They all survived with the 2 females having pretty severe injuries. It was amazing that they survived! I do know that they liked it and the gas mileage.
Wife has had her's for seven years now. Normal maintenance, decent gas mileage, good in snow, and safe. I would buy another.
This is what my dad has experienced. He bought one in the mid 2000's as his Dodge diesel was getting horrific to maintain. He is 6'2" and says it is plenty roomy, good mileage, dependable, nothing except routine stuff like oil changes.
Can't comment on noise as I have not noticed it. I did test drive a new one for the wife and rather liked it. Perhaps the noise is related to the tires?
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Its my wife's commuter car in the winter and our weekend trip car - for us anyways, its a tank in the snow. Gas mileage is about 24 putting around the city.
I have 110K miles on it - and I have replaced the alternator, sway bar links and an oxygen sensor. Need to put in new front struts and get an alignment. Also bought new headlights for $80 a pair because the old ones had glossed over and you couldn't see them.
I have no intentions of selling this car. It does everything I need it to do. I hope to get 300K on it. I intentionally chose the 5 speed because I didn't want to deal with an auto tranny down the road.
I've never noticed road noise but it would have to be bad for me to notice given my other car is an F150 with A/T tires.
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A friend of mine has one and she loves it. She said she has never got stuck in the snow with it and enjoys the fuel economy. She is a retired school bus driver..in her 70's.
I had a Honda Civic, which I think was the precursor to the current CRV. I bought it years ago with 125k miles on it. I put almost 100k miles on it myself, then sold it cheap to a college student, who finished the last 2 semesters of college driving it. It drove forever without a hitch.
