2026 Honda CR-V
This year drew an ordinary 118 complaints for a Honda CR-V — the model's median is 479. What they were about is the unusual part: 33.9% of them mention lost, against 11.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 5 of the Honda CR-V, which began in 2023. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 118 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 479 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 33.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- lost — 33.9% of this year's complaints, against 11.2% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: lost, accelerating, normally, lost power.
- before — 20.3% of this year's complaints, against 7.1% across the other years of this generation (2.9×).
- infotainment — 16.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: infotainment, infotainment system, software, risk because.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
While accelerating from a stop and executing a right turn, at a speed of roughly 15 mph, the power train partially lost power and the car slowed for several seconds before accelerating normally.
While driving at 25 mph in econ mode and accelerating, the drive train partially lost power and the car slowed down for 2 or 3 seconds before accelerating normally.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda CR-V was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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