√2024 Honda CR-V price announced: Base price up $8600

The new Honda CR-V brings a longer list of technology and a larger body than its predecessor – but a much higher starting price, and increases of up to $5100 on other variants.

2024 Honda CR-V pricing and specifications
Seven model grades with petrol or hybrid power
Feature lists yet to be confirmed
Priced from $44,500 drive-away

The price of the cheapest 2024 Honda CR-V will increase by $8600 when the new model arrives in showrooms later this year with the option of hybrid power.

Due to open for orders on September 1 ahead of showroom arrivals “later this year”, the new CR-V is bigger than its predecessor, and borrows technology and a choice of petrol or hybrid power from the latest Civic small car and ZR-V mid-size SUV.

Prices have risen sharply in the seven-model range, which now starts from $44,500 drive-away for the turbocharged VTi X – $8600 more than the previous base variant, the non-turbo Vi.

Compared to the equivalent VTi X model in the outgoing line-up – which was a middle-of-the-range variant – the new version is $2600 dearer. The base Vi and VTi variants have been dropped for the new range.

Prices on other models have risen by $3400 to $5100, while hybrid technology is only available in a top-of-the-range e:HEV RS variant, priced from $59,900 drive-away – the second-most expensive Honda SUV ever sold in Australia.

Specifications and equipment levels for each variant are yet to be published; more details are due closer to launch.

The company says its full suite of advanced safety features will be standard across the range, as well as Honda Connect smartphone-app connectivity.

Honda has confirmed the RS hybrid offers body-coloured front and rear bumper accents, a black front grille with RS badging, and black leather-appointed seat upholstery with red stitching.

The seven model variants cover five or seven-seat layouts, front or all-wheel drive, and a choice of a 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, or a hybrid combining a 2.0-litre non-turbo four-cylinder petrol engine and two electric motors.

The new CR-V measures 4694mm long, 1864mm wide and 1691mm tall, on a 2700mm wheelbase – 59mm longer overall, 9mm wider and 12mm taller on a 40mm-longer wheelbase.

The growth spurt makes the CR-V one of the larger cars in the “medium SUV” category, and a similar size to the Mitsubishi Outlander, Skoda Kodiaq and Nissan X-Trail.

It creates space for the new ZR-V below it, which is smaller than the outgoing CR-V – and within millimetres of a Mazda CX-5 on the outside.

The 2024 Honda CR-V is due in Australian showrooms by the end of this year. It continues to be built in Thailand for the local market.

2024 Honda CR-V Australian pricing

CR-V VTi X five-seat front-wheel drive – $44,500 (up $2600, or $5600 more than old base VTi)
CR-V VTi L five-seat front-wheel drive – $48,800
CR-V VTi X7 seven-seat front-wheel drive – $46,800
CR-V VTi L7 seven-seat front-wheel drive – $53,000 (up $3500)
CR-V VTi L AWD five-seat all-wheel drive – $51,300 (up $5100)
CR-V VTi LX AWD five-seat all-wheel drive – $57,000 (up $3400)
CR-V e:HEV RS five-seat front-wheel drive hybrid – $59,900 (new)

Note: All prices are drive-away.

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