Guest Reviewer, RTÉ 2FM’s Ruth Scott Drives Honda’s fuel sipping new CR-V 1.6 i-DTEC The white Honda CR-V 1.6 i-DTEC ES arrived like a white stallion in the driveway! To say I was excited about driving this is like saying that kids look forward to Christmas morning. The interior of this just screamed “luxury” to me! I love a leather steering wheel – which this had. Along with a leather gear stick. Let me start on the reversing. I’m not used to driving an SUV and was wondering how I would manage getting it into the parking space. Turns out, reversing it was a doddle. The rear windows are big. Yup size matters! I thought the wing mirrors looked huge (think vanity mirror!) but they fit with the general dynamics of the car.  Aside from a great-sized wing mirror, how could reversing be made even easier? By adding front & rear parking sensors and by putting a camera in the back of the car! As soon as you put the car into reverse, the camera brings up on the dashboard screen an image of what’s behind you. There’s even a on-screen grid so you easily see exactly how close you are to the bollard, the kerb or your auntie’s favourite doggy. The rear view mirror doesn’t block my view at all making it a bright interior for a very pleasant driving experience and that in turn helps cover all angles when parking. Not only could I have reversed my way happily through a tricky maze in this, I could have parked it in the most awkward spaces. Even though it has the look and feel of a big car, it manoeuvres incredibly easily. It is just an amazing , unfussy, easy drive.  With a really comfortable drivers seat, I am quite convinced that I could have lived in this for the week. I love love loved the eco gadgetry. The Honda has an Eco Assist button. What does it mean? Turn on the Eco Assist and you’ll be more economic with fuel. It indicates when you are driving in that sweet spot of fuel efficiency with the help of two little green “bracket” effect lights around the speedometer display. It became a carrot & stick for me to see if I could improve my driving to almost always be in the green...