Is the Honda_UK CR-V hybrid a good choice for long journeys? 🤔 Our chief photographer has been finding out:
A long journey gives you a great opportunity to get to know a new car, and a recent trip up the A1 to Humberside told me all I needed to know about how mySet a steady cruise and, when the traffic gods are kind enough to let you maintain a constant speed, the 2.0-litre engine hums away in the background in a fairly subdued manner.
It's all to do with the hybrid power system, which is rather complicated to explain, but it boils down like this. Usually, the petrol engine's job is to generate electricity to power a pair of motors that drive the car. At higher speeds, though, the engine powers the wheels itself. Now, of course, the engine produces the most electricity when it's turning at high revs, so putting your foot down to accelerate hard has it girding its loins and emitting a Rob Roy-style battle yell.
Better news is that the motorway ride is extremely calm. The CR-V disguises scruffy surfaces well enough to make you think that the Government's highway repair budget must be going a long way. The potholes that you can distinctly see as you approach them must have been fixed with some kind of invisible filling; I barely feel them when they pass beneath.
I guess I need to get used to it being almost, but not quite, spot on. And that's not the only thing I need to get used to. The gear selector continues to defeat me. Because there's no gearbox as such, there's no mechanical gear selector, just an array of buttons. My instinct, when putting an automatic car into drive, is to grab something and pull it back, and the only control that makes the CR-V move when you pull it back is the reverse gear toggle. Drive gets its own button, handily marked with an illuminated D. Perhaps I should get a hat made up that says the same thing.
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