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Honda CR-V vs Subaru Crosstrek

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Honda CR-V
Honda CR-V

$38,980 - $57,990

2024 price

Subaru Crosstrek
Subaru Crosstrek

$29,905 - $47,990

2023 price

Summary

2024 Honda CR-V
2023 Subaru Crosstrek
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Inline 4, 2.0L

Flat 4, 2.0L
Fuel Type
Unleaded Petrol/Electric

Unleaded Petrol/Electric
Fuel Efficiency
5.5L/100km (combined)

6.5L/100km (combined)
Seating
5

5
Dislikes
  • No full-sized spare wheel
  • No hybrid AWD availability
  • Firm ride

  • Hybrid not quite efficient enough for cost
  • Spartan second row
  • Minor annoyances e.g. chimes and screen
2024 Honda CR-V Summary

In the distant future, automotive historians will look back at the Honda CR-V as one of the true SUV originals.

Sure, it and the conceptually-identical Subaru Forester, trailed the trendsetting Toyota RAV4 of 1994 by three years, but collectively all three Japanese brands broke and then reset the Australian family-car mould in lightning-quick time. Too much so for the floundering local car industry to ever catch up.

Today, they remain the blue-chip mid-sized SUV contenders.

Six generations in, how does the completely-redesigned CR-V in all-new e:HEV (petrol-electric hybrid) guise stack up? Let's find out!

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2023 Subaru Crosstrek Summary

Things are going well for Subaru. In the first half of 2023, all of its models in Australia are outselling their figures for the same time last year by hundreds, some even by thousands.

Except for one model, the XV. In fact, sales have plummeted! So what happened to it? It was one of the brand’s top sellers, right?

Well, it’s still here, but now it’s called Crosstrek in Australia as it already is in the rest of the world. And maybe we lied a little - it’s selling very well. In June 2023 it outsold the Forester and Outback, both well established models in Subaru’s local history.

But the name isn’t all that’s new, because this Impreza-spinoff SUV now comes as a hybrid - available here as the Crosstrek Hybrid S.

Traditionally, Subaru has been pretty… traditional. So, will a step towards the future - electrification, that is - help or hinder the Crosstrek’s rise to mass popularity?

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