2024 Honda HR-V

Is the 2024 Honda HR-V a Good SUV?

Yes, the 2024 HR-V is a good SUV. It offers two rows of welcoming seats, a decent-sized cargo area, user-friendly features and an upscale cabin. From behind the wheel, you'll appreciate its comfortable ride and enthusiastic handling. The biggest factor holding back the HR-V in our subcompact SUV rankings is a weak powertrain that can make the car feel slow and somewhat unpleasant to drive.

Should I Buy the 2024 Honda HR-V?

Underpowered engine aside, the HR-V still makes a lot of sense if you're looking for a utilitarian daily driver or a crossover that can haul a small family and their stuff. With a base price of just over $24,000 and a long list of standard features, it's attractive, and you'll get good bang for your buck. Still, you may want to look to competitors like the Mazda CX-30 and Subaru Crosstrek, which offer punchier engine options than the HR-V's lone power plant.

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2023 vs. 2024 Honda HR-V: What's the Difference?

After a full redesign for the 2023 model year, there are no notable changes for the 2024 Honda HR-V.

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Here are the key changes for the Honda HR-V over the last few years:

• 2024: no major changes
• 2023: fully redesigned with larger dimensions, an updated appearance, a nicer interior, an improved ride and additional standard features
• 2022: no notable changes
• 2021: no major changes
• 2020: no notable changes

If you're considering an older model, be sure to read our 2021 HR-V, 2022 HR-V and 2023 HR-V reviews to help make your decision. Also, check out our Best New Car Deals and Best New Car Lease Deals pages to learn about savings and discounts you can find on new vehicles.

Pricing

How Much is a 2024 Honda HR-V?

The 2024 Honda HR-V starts at $24,100 for the base LX. Its features include a 7-inch touch screen and forward automatic emergency braking. Starting at $25,650, the HR-V Sport comes with features such as heated front seats and remote start. The HR-V EX-L starts at $27,650. Among its upgrades are leather seats and a moonroof. Each trim comes standard with front-wheel drive, and all-wheel drive is optional for $1,500.

Check out our U.S. News Best Price Program for great savings at your local Honda dealer. You can also find excellent manufacturer incentives on our Honda deals page.

Which Is the Best Honda HR-V Model to Buy?

The HR-V is a value-minded commuter, and the base LX trim is the best pick for a nice balance of equipment for the price. The engine and transmission are the same across the lineup, and the LX comes with a loaded suite of safety features, including forward collision warning, forward automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane-departure warning, lane-keep assist and automatic high-beam headlights. The two 7-inch digital displays give the car a modern feel as well.

2024 Honda HR-V Versus the Competition

Honda HR-V vs. Subaru Crosstrek

The Subaru Crosstrek is fully redesigned for 2024. Both it and the HR-V have roomy cabins, comfortable rides, underpowered base engines and long lists of standard features. The Honda has the edge in handling, indoor materials quality, infotainment usability and cargo room behind the rear seats. On the other hand, the Subaru is available with a stronger engine, and it's better off road, thanks in part to a rugged Wilderness model. Your choice will likely come down to personal preference.

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Honda HR-V vs. Toyota Corolla Cross

Like the HR-V, the Toyota Corolla Cross sits in the crowded midpack of our subcompact SUV rankings. This Toyota has one of the largest cargo capacities in the segment, and it bests nearly all rivals in fuel economy, too. Positives it shares with the HR-V include roomy seating space, modern and straightforward tech features and a comfortable ride. On the downside, the Corolla Cross has too many hard plastic cabin materials, its handling is duller than the HR-V's, and — like the Honda — it has a weak and unrefined engine.

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HR-V Interior: A Pleasant Place

2024 HR-V Interior Quality

The 2024 Honda HR-V is still feeling fresh from its 2023 model year redesign. The cabin is sleek and modern, with cool design touches and a wealth of high-quality materials. Build quality is excellent as well.

2024 HR-V Infotainment, Bluetooth and Navigation

Both of the HR-V's available infotainment systems — the standard 7-inch touch screen and optional 9-inch display — are easy to get the hang of. The menu structure is logical, and you can customize some aspects for better ease of use. There are also plenty of physical buttons and knobs for common adjustments like climate and volume. Everything is clearly labeled and easy to reach from the driver's seat as well.

• Standard infotainment features: a 7-inch touch screen, wired Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, a four-speaker stereo, Bluetooth and three USB ports
• Available infotainment features: a 9-inch touch screen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless device charging, a six- or eight-speaker stereo, satellite radio, HD Radio and a Wi-Fi hot spot
• Additional standard features: a 7-inch digital instrument cluster display, automatic climate control and remote keyless entry
• Other available features: dual-zone automatic climate control, proximity keyless entry, remote start, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, ambient interior lighting and a moonroof

For more information, read What Is Apple CarPlay? and What Is Android Auto?

2024 HR-V Cargo Space

This Honda rates well for cargo space among subcompact SUVs. The HR-V provides 24.4 cubic feet of room behind the rear seats, and these seats fold nearly flat to create a boxy area of 55.1 cubic feet. Loading and unloading is easy as well.

How Many People Does the 2024 HR-V Seat?

The HR-V seats five people. The front row is roomy and comfortable, and the driver has good visibility in most directions. Wide doors make for simple access, and the rear seats have enough head- and legroom for adults.

2024 HR-V and Child Car Seats

There are two complete sets of LATCH connectors for the HR-V's rear outboard seats. There's also a tether anchor for the rear middle seat, and you can borrow lower anchors from either side when they're not in use. All of the connection points are easy to find and utilize, but the middle tether anchor can be hard to find.

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HR-V Performance: Needs More Power

2024 HR-V Engine

The sole engine offering for the 2024 Honda HR-V is a 158-horsepower four-cylinder, and it's mated to a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT). Acceleration from a stop is fine, and the CVT goes about its business with little drama. However, you really need to mash the gas to get up to higher speeds, which causes the powertrain to drone loudly. Zero to 60 mph takes a leisurely 10 seconds.

2024 HR-V Gas Mileage

The HR-V's fuel economy is about average for a subcompact SUV. With standard front-wheel drive, it gets an EPA-estimated 26 mpg in the city and 32 mpg on the highway. All-wheel-drive models return 25 mpg in the city and 30 mpg on the highway.

2024 HR-V Ride and Handling

As expected from a vehicle this size, the HR-V is easy to pilot in tight quarters, and it has deft maneuverability. It's surprisingly sporty through turns, with well-controlled body movements and strong braking performance. A pampering ride rounds out this crossover's solid driving dynamics.

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HR-V Reliability

Is the 2024 Honda HR-V Reliable?

The 2024 Honda HR-V does not have a predicted reliability score at the time of writing.

2024 Honda HR-V Warranty

Honda covers the 2024 HR-V with a three-year/36,000-mile limited warranty and a five-year/60,000-mile powertrain warranty.

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2024 Honda HR-V Safety

Score: 9.6/10

2024 HR-V Crash Test Results

Neither the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration nor the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has crash tested the 2024 Honda HR-V at the time of writing.

2024 HR-V Safety Features

Standard driver-assistance features:

• Forward collision warning
• Forward automatic emergency braking
• Adaptive cruise control
• Lane-departure warning
• Lane-keep assist
• Traffic-jam assist (manages braking, acceleration and steering in low-speed traffic conditions)
• Traffic-sign recognition
• Driver-attention monitoring
• Automatic high-beam headlights
• Rearview camera
• Rear-seat alert (reminds you to check the back seats for kids or pets before you exit the vehicle)

Available driver-assistance features:

• Blind-spot monitoring
• Rear cross-traffic alert
• Front and rear parking sensors

2024 HR-V Dimensions and Weight

The HR-V is 15 feet long, and its curb weight ranges from 3,159 to 3,333 pounds.

Where Is the 2024 Honda HR-V Built?

Honda builds the 2024 HR-V in Mexico.

2024 Honda HR-V Models and Trims

The 2024 Honda HR-V comes in three trims: LX, Sport and EX-L. All models come standard with a 158-horsepower four-cylinder engine, a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT) and front-wheel drive. All-wheel drive is available for $1,500 in every trim.

Honda HR-V LX

The LX trim starts at $24,100. Standard features include cloth upholstery, manually adjustable front seats, a 7-inch digital instrument cluster display, a 7-inch touch screen, wired Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, a four-speaker stereo, Bluetooth, three USB ports, remote keyless entry and automatic climate control.

The HR-V's standard driver-assistance equipment includes forward collision warning, forward automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane-departure warning, lane-keep assist, traffic-jam assist, traffic-sign recognition, driver-attention monitoring, automatic high-beam headlights, a rearview camera and rear-seat alert.

Honda HR-V Sport

The Sport retails for $25,650. In addition to trim-specific styling, it features heated front seats, proximity keyless entry, remote start, a six-speaker stereo and a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob.

You can add blind-spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert for $550.

Honda HR-V EX-L

The EX-L starts at $27,650. This trim adds leather upholstery, an eight-way power-adjustable driver's seat, a 9-inch touch screen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless device charging, an eight-speaker stereo, satellite radio, HD Radio, a Wi-Fi hot spot, dual-zone automatic climate control, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, ambient interior lighting, front and rear parking sensors and a moonroof.

Check out our U.S. News Best Price Program for great savings at your local Honda dealer. You can also find excellent manufacturer incentives on our Honda deals page.

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Why You Can Trust Our Reviews

U.S. News & World Report has been ranking the best cars, trucks and SUVs since 2007, and our staff has more than 75 years of combined experience in the auto industry.

This 2024 HR-V review combines 13 professional reviews with concrete data like performance specs, fuel economy estimates and cargo space dimensions and incorporates applicable research for all models in this generation, which launched for 2023. Check out excerpts from some of the reviews that drive our rankings and analysis.

• "Honda's smallest SUV, the HR-V, has been known to pack a ton of utility and clever features into a compact package. And for 2023 it was completely redesigned. It's larger, more refined and more sophisticated-looking inside and out. But the extra-small SUV segment has gained some impressive offerings of late, and we're afraid the new HR-V hasn't evolved enough to compete with the best." -- Edmunds
• "Basically, it's a safe and sensible choice with few bad habits that nevertheless lacks a defining niche such as being especially outdoorsy, sporty, stylish or family-friendly. Whether that makes it well-rounded or mid-pack is probably in the eye of the beholder." -- Autoblog (2023)
• "Entry-level cars are tricky. Automakers have to balance keeping the cost low with making a worthy product. Some do a fabulous job while others make you wonder if you’d have been better off walking. While its predecessor fell somewhere in the middle of those two extremes, the redesigned 2023 Honda HR-V is a budget crossover that makes driving the right choice." -- Forbes (2023)