It doesn’t get better than this
The 2010 Honda CR-V cuts across as a fully compact and
beautifully designed car. The car is packed with the latest upgrades in
technology, which includes better fuel economy and more aggressive speed and
power compared to its predecessors.
A lot of changes have been made on the exterior design of the
car. It features a new grille and bumper design and re-sculptured hood. Its
upper grille now comes with a single horizontal chrome-style trim cross bar,
unlike the double slate style cross bar found in previous designs. The lower
grille is built with honeycomb design, which replaces the three bar horizontal
cross design in previous models.
Models
The car models are in three grades – the CR-V LX, CR-V EX and
the CR-V EX-L. The grades are distinguished by slight differences in exterior
and interior designs and packaging.
The CR-V LX comes with a specially built air filtration (air conditioning
system), tilt and telescopic steering and power windows. It also comes with
standard audio system with both CD player and radio added with four speakers.
The CR-V EX is designed with a chrome grille and has a six-disc
dash CD player. Its other striking features are exterior temperature indicator
and digital compass for direction.
The CR-V EX-L comes with leather trimmed seats and arm rests. It
features a special XM Radio 3 player and a USB audio interface. On the
dash-board is a Honda Satellite-Linked navigation system with voice recognition
and rear view camera. It has a premium audio system with six discs CD changer
including subwoofer, Bluetooth, hands free link and seven speakers.
The four door and five-passenger Honda CR-V has other general features
like 17-inch alloy wheels, an upgraded interior door handle with rubberized
grip handle and new fabric seats.
It is designed with a centre folding armrest for the driver and
front seat passenger and a large handbag for keeping little accessories like
note pads and mobile phones. The car also comes with retractable centre tray
table and sliding second row seat to have maximum cargo space.
Under the hood
The 2010 Honda CR-V fires with a 2.4 litre 4 cylinder engine,
with a power output of 180hp. The is built with an all-aluminium 16 valve dual
overhead camshaft (DOHC) i-VTEC engine. The engine integrates with variable
valve timing and lift electronic control along with a variable timing control
(VTC).
The 2010 CR-V comes standard with electronically controlled five
speed automatic transmission, which uses an active lockup torque converter.
Safety
In terms of safety, the 2010 CR-V is built with an advanced
compatible engineering body structure. It comes with side curtain air bags with
rollover sensor and front side air bags. It has passenger side occupant
positioning detection system, anti-lock braking system (ABS), active front seat
head restraints, electronic brake distributor (EBD) and tire pressure
monitoring.
The car comes in attractive colours such as opal sage metallic
(new), Royal Blue pearl, Taffeta white, glacier blue metallic, polished metal
metallic (new), Alabaster silver metallic, Crystal black pearl, Tango red pearl
and urban titanium metallic. Interior colour choices are ivory black and gray.
The price ranges from $ 21, 545 (N3, 231,750) to $ 27, 745 (N4,
161,750) based on website automobiles.honda.com
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