5 weeks with the 2017 CRV
Now that I have driven the new 2017 Honda CRV for 5 weeks, complete with an outstation trip to Ipoh with 4 adults and 2 kids, have my impression of the car changed one bit? Actually, I am more pleased with the car after a full 2-hour drive up North. Firstly, the car is so quiet when travelling the freeway at 130km/h. At 110km/h, the RPM was around 1900RPM and at 130km/h, it is just 2700RPM. The engine didn't feel like it was roaring. And I don't even know I was going at 130km/h! Pick up for overtaking, with 4 adults and 2 kids, plus luggage at the boot, was excellent. The car is powerful and effortless in just zooming past other cars.
Fuel consumption was good, around 16km/litre which is 15sen per km (I am using RON97, so that's like $2.44 per litre as of this writing)
Apple Maps and Foursquare was a great combination to look for places and CarPlay was able to get us to any place in Ipoh. I believe Apple hada partnership with Foursquare. I like that when I was searching for something in the Foursquare app, and then I switched to Maps, Maps automatically showed me my recent Foursquare view. And within Foursquare, clicking Directions allow me to have the option to open in Apple Maps. It looks like Waze is not the only accurate GPS in the market.
On the way back, we met with a storm. Heavy rain and strong wind. This was the day where Jalan Kuching in KL was hit with flash flood and there was a video that went viral, of cars stuck on the highway. Anyway, the storm hit PLUS highway too but the CRV handled the storm and the rain pretty well.
The comment from adults at the back seat was that it is very spacious and lots of leg room for them.
Truly a great car in terms of it's exterior design, interior furnishing and the turbo engine are really great differentiators. Honda have a winner here that will last for years!
Fuel consumption was good, around 16km/litre which is 15sen per km (I am using RON97, so that's like $2.44 per litre as of this writing)
Apple Maps and Foursquare was a great combination to look for places and CarPlay was able to get us to any place in Ipoh. I believe Apple hada partnership with Foursquare. I like that when I was searching for something in the Foursquare app, and then I switched to Maps, Maps automatically showed me my recent Foursquare view. And within Foursquare, clicking Directions allow me to have the option to open in Apple Maps. It looks like Waze is not the only accurate GPS in the market.
On the way back, we met with a storm. Heavy rain and strong wind. This was the day where Jalan Kuching in KL was hit with flash flood and there was a video that went viral, of cars stuck on the highway. Anyway, the storm hit PLUS highway too but the CRV handled the storm and the rain pretty well.
The comment from adults at the back seat was that it is very spacious and lots of leg room for them.
Truly a great car in terms of it's exterior design, interior furnishing and the turbo engine are really great differentiators. Honda have a winner here that will last for years!
Going to book for 1.5 with silver color. Are you using the default tyre or any other brand?
ReplyDeleteDefault tyre is amazing.. It's big, it's steady and I really like the shuriken look :)
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