Now that Honda has begun selling the Crosstour with a four-cylinder engine and lowered the Crosstour’s price, there remains one key complication.
The Honda Crosstour is ridiculously ugly. There, I said it. Oh my, such a controversial opinion. I generally love referring to beauty and the beholder and all that, but the Crosstour deserves no design defence. I might even delete your comment if you try and defend the Crosstour’s appearance. Defend something, just not this car’s horrendous design.
Recent tinkering hasn’t helped. The big grille is so painfully shiny. The line that begins just ahead of the front door and continues through the door handles doesn’t know where to go. This line doesn’t do a good job at whatever it’s trying to do, and the abyss created by Honda’s designers between the bumper corner and the beltline continues to aid in the rear end’s quest to offend us all.
The swathe of plastic that stretches across the hatch is cheap like dirt. The size of the rear overhang begs the question, how does the Crosstour not tip over onto its exhaust outlets? The proportions are all wrong, the stance is awry, and there’s enough room for a family of elves to live in the space between rubber and wheelarch.
But it’s practical? If that’s enough justification for buying a vehicle, we should all be driving the Ssangyong Rodius.
Jeep Wrangler Unlimited – Dodge Ram – BMW 328i
Ford F-150 SVT Raptor – Chevrolet Suburban –
Mercedes-Benz E350 4Matic Wagon – Porsche Boxster S –
Porsche Cayenne S – Land Rover Range Rover