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

Answered by Honest John

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.

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