Here is the 2015 Honda CR-V, which arrives just in time for the model’s three-year mark since its last major redesign. We wish you could tell you more about the popular compact crossover’s mid-cycle update, but this is all Honda’s given us. A picture, they say, is worth at least a brief blog post outlining an SUV’s cosmetic tweaks.
It is clear that Honda left everything between the CR-V’s A-pillars and D-pillars completely alone, but the front end gets a much-needed face lift, and we’ll go out on a limb and assume the SUV’s tail received nearly as much attention. (No photos of the CR-V’s aft end have been released yet.) Gone is the 2012–2014 CR-V’s somewhat ungainly mug, Honda having streamlined the grille, headlights, and lower fascia elements. The chrome-ringed grille opening is sleeker than before, its two-bar design matching up nicely with the latest Honda Fit and the upcoming Fit-based HR-V B-segment crossover.
Projector beam headlamps lend the CR-V’s peepers a thinner and more modern appearance, even though the light units’ outer dimensions remain more or less the same as the old ones. The thin-light theme continues with the fog lights, which live in a pair of dashing chrome strips on either side of a vestigial skid plate. The wheel design, at least on this apparently well-spec’d 2015 CR-V, are new, as well.
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Unfortunately, that’s all we know about the 2015 CR-V for now; Honda promises that full information—which we assume outlines any and all mechanical changes—will be released September 30. If you’re an absolute CR-V nut, be sure to check back to this space for more next week.
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