2002 Honda CR-V Review

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Trims	City MPG	Hwy MPG	MSRP	Invoice	Displacement	Engine
2WD LX Automatic	23	28	$18,800	$17,371.12	2.4L/144	Gas I4
2WD LX Automatic with Side Airbags	23	28	$19,050	$17,601.72	2.4L/144	Gas I4
4WD EX Automatic	22	26	$22,300	$20,599.52	2.4L/144	Gas I4
4WD EX Manual	21	25	$21,500	$19,861.60	2.4L/144	Gas I4
4WD LX Automatic	22	26	$20,000	$18,478	2.4L/144	Gas I4
4WD LX Automatic with Side Airbags	22	26	$20,250	$18,708.60	2.4L/144	Gas I4
4WD LX Manual	21	25	$19,200	$17,740.08	2.4L/144	Gas I4
4WD LX Manual with Side Airbags	21	25	$19,450	$17,970.68	2.4L/144	Gas I4

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You review the 2002 Honda CR-V

From the mid-Eighties through the early-Nineties Honda sold an ugly lump of a Civic wagon that was bought in tiny numbers but was about as practical a machine that's ever been marketed. It was tall, it was roomy, it got great fuel economy and it was available with Honda's "Real Time" four-wheel drive system. But it was just so shaved-bulldog-butt homely.

2002 Honda CR-V The first '97 CR-V was as much a successor to that misbegotten Civic wagon as a response to the challenge of Toyota's '96 RAV4. As such it brought a new level of practicality to the twerp SUV class and thoroughly conventional styling as far away from the Civic wagon's as possible. Honda has sold a bazillion of them and if anything is clear about the all-new 2002 CR-V, it is that Honda wasn't about to screw-up a winning formula. But since '97 the CR-V's class has grown increasingly crowded with competitors from virtually every manufacturer. Can a better CR-V expand the proven formula to compete in this jam-packed market?