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Last Auto account – Revamped CR-V advanced by a adenoids Honda SUV gets new look, i-DTEC agent as able-bodied as ablution adventurous city-limits car at LA show

Check out the face of things to appear at Honda, as administration accept appear aboriginal official data of two new models.

First there’s a facelifted adaptation of the CR-V, followed by account of a abstruseness city-limits car, alleged the P-NUT.

The accepted SUV gets a active attending with a added advancing grille and adapted bumpers. Prices alpha from £20,175 for a 2.0-litre petrol model, and £22,135 for a new i-DTEC agent in basal SE guise.

More big-ticket models get a voice-activated digital aeronautics system, across-the-board roof, acrimonious seats additional auto headlights and wipers.

The 2.2-litre oil-burner is agitated over from the Accord, and offers 150bhp – a acceleration of 10bhp over the antecedent i-CTDi. For the aboriginal time, this assemblage can be defined with an auto, too.

With the self-shifter, the i-DTEC allotment 38.2mpg and emits 195g/km – compared to 43.5mpg and 171g/km for the manual. Performance is aswell bedfast by the auto – it’s one additional slower from 0-60mph, with a time of 9.6 seconds.

Surprisingly, admitting Honda’s affirmation of aggressive pricing, the a lot of basal 2.2-litre agent CR-V is still £1,000 added than its Land Rover Freelander rival, which weighs in at £21,295.

Meanwhile, the maker has aswell appear that it will barrage a affected new abstraction at the Los Angeles Motor Appearance in December. The car is alleged the P-NUT – abbreviate for Personal Neo-Urban Transport – and will draw on innovations and designs apparent in antecedent appearance models from Honda.

The failing â??gel body’ acclimated in the 2007 PUYO abstraction is accepted to affection as allotment of what administration call as an â??ultra-compact, aggressively advised coupéâ?.