Thought you all would like to see my first post in these forums. It's a heart warming story of a girl and her dog, of losing and once again, finding....her heart on the open road.
(from the Honda CR-V forum):
I admit it; I hate the new '07 CR-V
I have been a very loyal and avid fan of the CR-V since first getting my little green beauty in the fall of 1999 (her vin # says she's a 2000).
CRooVy and I traveled up and down the California coast happily over the last 7 years, me surfing the various spots and she, I guess enjoying having a little sand in her crevices and racking up highway miles in cruise control. I loved the way I could put down the back seats, put a sleeping pad under my sleeping bag and my dog and I would be quite comfortable camping out in the back. I loved how you could see another first or second generation CR-V on the highway at night in front of you and know right away from the rear spare tire and high placed running lights...it was a CR-V. If the second generation seemed like it was big enough to almost be a medium size SUV, the first generation was just the right size for me.
Well.....Honda really lost me on this one. Like every other CR-V owner, I saw the ads on TV with Elvis belting out "Burning Love" and so I was intrigued of course, curious to see it in the flesh. Immediately my pretentiousness meter went into overdrive. OMG.....they are trying to make it look like a Lexus! Where the hell is the back tire? What did they do with the rear windows and why is it all smushed up in the rear? And lo and behold, the back seats don't lay flat! And how SMALL is it? Compare it to the second generation and even to the first and you'll see. I am heartsick because I SO wanted to like the third edition. Oh well.
Serendipitously, when my family said I needed a new car because I had nearly 200,000 miles on my Honda....I just shrugged....and went down to the Toyota dealership.....to get the new Rav 4.
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01-12-2007, 11:23 PM
