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While a bounty of changes inside and out endow the 2012 Honda CR-V with a new level of user-friendly appeal, this latest incarnation retains its signature car-like driving feel and superb flexibility
Anyone hoping that Honda would break tradition and finally offer the CR-V with an optional V6 engine and available three-row seating like the Kia Sorento and Toyota RAV4 will be disappointed.
Building on the Honda CR-V's already-stellar reputation for being easy to drive and easy to live with, changes to the 2012 iteration have raised those benchmarks in modest but genuinely meaningful ways. Extensive noise abatement efforts have yielded a quieter, better-isolated passenger compartment, while an even more rigid unit-body structure, coupled with revised suspension tuning, gives the 2012 CR-V improved handling characteristics. Like the 2012 Civic, the new CR-V also is fitted with Honda's new Motion-Adaptive electric power stee
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why ads?Based on 51 Ratings for the 2012 - 2013 models.
Review this carBy Zuccmeister (NC) on Friday, May 03, 2013
I owned and sold this car
Reason: Wife wanted something with more power - My approximate mileage is 17,250
Pros: "Crazy (Good) re-sale value"
Cons: "No home link or power lift gate"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"Honda continues to amaze me with their resale value. We owned the car for a year and put over 17k miles on it, then sold it for pretty close to what we paid for it. Amazing, considering no major price increase on the 2013's. The only reason we got rid of it is that my wife is used to V6's and V8's and could never warm up to the 4 cylinder. As far as I was concerned, it had plenty of power for what is was. We both would have liked it better if it had home-link and a power lift gate. We bought the top of the line EX-L AWD, so you would think that those options would be available,but were not."
3 people out of 3 found this review helpful
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By Gary (TX) on Thursday, April 18, 2013
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 380
overall rating 8 of 10rating detailsPros: "Very good price and fun to drive"
Cons: "No remote trunk release & no opening windows remot"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 7
"Loved the feel of the CRV compared to Accord...however I'd prefer if the similar features of the Accord were implemented to the CRV..e.g holding the auto door log button on the remote key fob does NOT open the windows [especially in Texas where the summers are quite hot] thus letting out the heat while approaching the vehicle and the other issue is the trunk release feature is absent from the remote key fob..which again makes it tedious to open the trunk when your hands are full."
6 people out of 6 found this review helpful
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