2019 Honda HR-V AWD Off-Road Review - Can it survive the rocks?

In this full review of the 2019 Honda HR-V AWD Touring, Ryan pushes the all-wheel drive system to the extreme. Can it make it up a rock-climb and back again? Plus: all the features, safety tech and the 0-60 performance tested.

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[drivingsports]

What’s your favorite compact crossover?

[mudjerry]

i live in alaska and the hrv is my daily, it does fairly deep snow very frequently along with sand and gravel with little issues thus far. also has a great interior layout, all the seats will go full flat and hold pretty much every thing not to mention good mpg. been a home run for me thus far especially in snow

[diegoroman]

Drove my wife's 2016 HRV to Colorado and back. We went skiing during a snowstorm and never gave me problems, we were up and going trough the mountain roads before the snow plows. I'll never sell this vehicle! Great milage, reliable as hell and will take you to most places you want to go. A good ol' parter for the road.

[upsanddowns]

Made it up and back... and here's the kicker... it was never meant to do it in the first place. That speaks volumes for me.

[tim-oates]

Driving over a rock with the front and rear wheels at the same time from a dead stop is actually lifting the car straight up as opposed to rolling forward. That takes an enormous amount of power. I've had Jeeps struggle in that situation (bigger rocks). If you were to drive over those rocks one wheel at a time it would have rolled right over it. That's just a matter of choosing a better approach, and with this car probably carrying a little more momentum up the hill would help.

[MrDaveaccord]

Less than 1% of customers would actually try this with their new HRV.

[johnjones]

I drove my wife's 2016 HR-V over similar sized rocks on forest service roads without the drama portrayed in this video.

It's not a Wrangler and it's definitely not designed for rough terrain, but it did better than I expected over rocks.

[jimrees]

I have an 18 HRV, bought it mainly for snow. It does fantastic in snow, no doubt about it. I have a long driveway in the country that front wheel drive vehicles can not get up in snow, but my HRV doesn't even spin a wheel. Very satisfied with mine, plus it averages 30 mpg.

[yarrim]

Seriously, I think most people will buy this kind of vehicle to have a little more traction in the snow than a front wheel drive.

[scott]

You keep lifting off the gas just as you crest the rock then blame the car.

[garnerlibato]

can you please do the 2017-2019 Honda CR-V AWD in those rocky roads please.. We wanna see it.

[psykLiTT]

Okay. I liked this video specifically for that shot where you just casually drove over your camera for that glorious under-body shot. Very nice.

[rexonmontefalcon]

They're phasing out the side-mirror camera? Noooo! I have it on my '17 Honda Accord Touring and I find it very useful. This is too bad.

[ur]

It has nothing to do with horsepower. It has to do with torque, which the CVT transmission may limit.

[pablosabhlok]

I just went offroad on my 2WD HRV with Bridgestone Turanzsa tyres on a 40kilometre track far worse than the 'offroad' track in this video. While I had to go painstakingly slow in some parts, the HRV did fine and pulled through in the end. My respect for Honda and Bridgestone has increased. P.S. My GPS incorrectly navigated me into the bush in Australia and I mistakenly followed it. Hence why I was offroad in the first place.

[TheGreatBender]

10:06 It's the CVT not transferring power, not a lack of horsepower (although more is always the answer). Toyota has a new CVT that has a with a launch or first gear for very low speed. That direct gear allows more torque to be transferred to the wheels.

[KilchevSky]

There is interesting rear suspension, with a whole rear beam.
What is this tube under the car on the left side?

[pcdude]

I picked the HRV for my wife’s daily commute and awd helps on a rainy day commute. She doesn’t take it up the mountains. Plus it’s a good pass down vehicle for my daughter 5 years from now when she heads out to college. If I take my family to the mountains, that’s when my Tacoma comes in the picture.

[trailgnomeadventures]

By the way I have a two-wheel drive stick shift version of this car where I downsized to 16 inch wheels and up sized to 215 70 tires off-road type and it's actually quite the beast as long as you have momentum, because of the approach and departure angles that are so advantageous as you noticed.

[bigpoppa]

That was the cvt and lack of torque not letting you go over that rock. The hrv was doing exactly how Subaru's act.