This Honda CR-V rather neatly demonstrates that progress doesn?t have to shout about itself. Finished in Rallye Red ? which is just enthusiastic enough without being vulgar ? this 2.0 i-MMD Hybrid SE goes about its business with the calm, quietly clever competence Honda does so well. The hybrid system works away in the background like a well-trained butler, delivering smooth, unflustered progress through the eCVT while you simply get on with the important business of being comfortable. As an estate-style SUV it?s sensibly spacious, reassuringly well built and pleasingly easy to live with, rather than trying to be something it isn?t. Importantly, it also comes with the reassurance of a service plan in place all the way up to 62,500 miles, which is the sort of grown-up detail that makes ownership rather more relaxing. In short, it?s dependable, civilised and quietly impressive ? which, frankly, is exactly how a car like this should be.