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Peter Anderson
Contributing journalist
14 Mar 2017
9 min read

Peter Anderson is spending three months living with Honda's small-SUV contender to discover its charms, faults and whether it makes the grade in this very competitive end of the market.

January 23, 2016

Yes, yes, we've heard all the HR-V gags. The old one was a duffer and was rightly sent to the back paddock long ago. It seems the only originals that have survived long-term are the Mountain Dew-coloured ones, reminding us of their wretchedness.

This HR-V could hardly be more different. Based on the handy Jazz hatch, it competes with the smaller Mazda CX-3 and the bigger Nissan Qashqai, with the ageing Mitsubishi ASX still performing well in the sales race at least.

Read the full Honda HR-V VTi-L 2017 review: long term .