Automatic assumption
I am interested in buying a Honda CR-V, but am unwilling to do so while it still retains the obsolescent diesel engine instead of the new design, as now offered in the Accord. I understand that the Accord also now offers an automatic version. Two questions please, do you have any inside knowledge or expectations as to when the CR-V will have the new diesel? Secondly, have you tried the Accord automatic version?
Asked on 11 July 2009 by
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Yes, I’ve driven the Accord diesel auto briefly. Some notes included in car-by-car breakdown at hjuk. Honda will have to offer the CR-V as a diesel auto soon because Toyota now does with the RAV-4. But, interestingly, the 2.0 Valvematic petrol engine with CVT auto in the
RAV-4 is more efficient and lower emission than the diesel with torque converter auto. So it could be that the existing CR-V 2.0 petrol auto is already more efficient than a 2.2 diesel auto would be. And that Honda has already discovered this.
RAV-4 is more efficient and lower emission than the diesel with torque converter auto. So it could be that the existing CR-V 2.0 petrol auto is already more efficient than a 2.2 diesel auto would be. And that Honda has already discovered this.
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