I was driving to the mountains last week at it was starting to snow. The 2025 Honda CR-V hybrid had excellent traction on the wet Central City parkway. It was late in the afternoon and paving crews were still at work laying some sealcoat asphalt where busy gravel trucks had worn the roadway with shipments of aggregate from the new Young quarry located near the roadway. This past year a magnificent overpass was engineered and completed allowing trucks to enter the Central City parkway on their way to busy front range construction.
The 2025 Honda is a gasoline 2.0L direct injection four-cylinder engine with hybrid components producing an average 37 mpg overall. The versatile transmission featured paddle wheel shifting through lower gears, handy in mountain drives. The powertrain was sufficient with the smaller engine boosted with hybrid power and economy. This CR-V had final assembly in Alliston, Ontario, Canada with a Japanese engine and transmission. The suggested manufacturer’s list price was $40,800 very competitive for an SUV design with all-wheel drive capacity and loaded with a bevy of safety and drive options included.
The drive is solid assisted by a strong suspension system with racing famous MacPherson front struts and rear link suspension.
Electronic steering adds to the precision driving and safety assistance monitors warn of drive challenges. The vehicle is loaded with safety features and front, side, and side curtain airbags along with passenger knee airbags. The Honda “sensing” system includes adaptive cruise control, collision mitigation braking, lane assist, road departure mitigation and traffic jam assist.
The exterior has a sleek sport design with “Platinum White Gray” paint. The truck has power lift and spacious room and LED headlights and taillights that work automatically in dark tunnels.
A large center console comforts the drivers elbow and has spacious storage. A 9” color screen controls many functions along with the BOSE 12 speaker sound system. Everything is heated from side mirrors, seats, drive knob and steering wheel. This is a well-designed vehicle from Colorado weather and mountain drives.
I like this vehicle that is loaded with features, drives very well, and is an all-wheel drive with easy paddle gear shifting along with sport and normal drive modes and full battery power for total economy with self-drive charging. Certainly, a well-rounded choice from one of the world’s best companies.