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2026 Honda CR-V

Hybrid Gas Hydrogen fuel cell

Midsize Station Wagons
6 EPA-rated configurations
Data refreshed 2026-10-26

Safety Signal

89 / 100 from the NHTSA recall record

RecallsNHTSA campaigns 2

Complaints14 crash · 4 fire · 7 injured reported 171

Crash ratingNHTSA overall 5★

Fuel economybest combined, EPA 40 mpg

Starting MSRP12 trims · manufacturer $30,920

2027 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

The 2026 Honda CR-V is sold in the U.S. as a hybrid, gas and hydrogen fuel cell compact SUV with 6 EPA-rated configurations. The most efficient version, the CR-V FWD, is EPA-rated at 40 mpg combined. NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for this model year, which gives it a Safety Signal grade of B. Owners have filed 171 complaints, most often about the forward collision avoidance. NHTSA crash-tested it at 5 stars overall. Manufacturer pricing runs from $30,920 to $42,250 across 12 trims.

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Trims & pricing

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Trim	Powertrain	Drive	MSRP	HP	Torque	MPG comb	Cargo (2nd row)	Wheels
LX	Gas	FWD	$30,920	190 hp	179 lb-ft	30 mpg	39.3 cu-ft	17 in
LX	Gas	AWD	$32,420	190 hp	179 lb-ft	29 mpg	39.3 cu-ft	17 in
EX	Gas	FWD	$33,150	190 hp	179 lb-ft	30 mpg	39.3 cu-ft	18 in
EX	Gas	AWD	$34,650	190 hp	179 lb-ft	29 mpg	39.3 cu-ft	18 in
EX-L	Gas	FWD	$35,400	190 hp	179 lb-ft	30 mpg	39.3 cu-ft	18 in
EX-L	Gas	AWD	$36,900	190 hp	179 lb-ft	29 mpg	39.3 cu-ft	18 in
Sport Hybrid	Hybrid	FWD	$35,630	145 hp	138 lb-ft	40 mpg	36.3 cu-ft	18 in
Sport Hybrid	Hybrid	AWD	$37,130	145 hp	138 lb-ft	37 mpg	36.3 cu-ft	18 in
TrailSport Hybrid	Hybrid	AWD	$38,800	145 hp	138 lb-ft	35 mpg	36.3 cu-ft	18 in
Sport-L Hybrid	Hybrid	FWD	$38,725	145 hp	138 lb-ft	40 mpg	36.3 cu-ft	18 in
Sport-L Hybrid	Hybrid	AWD	$40,225	145 hp	138 lb-ft	37 mpg	34.7 cu-ft	18 in
Sport Touring Hybrid	Hybrid	AWD	$42,250	145 hp	138 lb-ft	37 mpg	34.7 cu-ft	19 in

MSRP excludes destination. Open a trim for the complete spec sheet and standard/optional equipment. Have the car in front of you? Decode its VIN to see which of these trims it is and what it was priced at.

Specs & fuel economy

Source: EPA fueleconomy.gov

Configuration	Powertrain	Drive	Engine / motor	City	Hwy	Comb	Annual fuel*
CR-V FWD	Hybrid	FWD	2.0L 4-cyl	43	36	40	$1,700
CR-V AWD	Hybrid	AWD	2.0L 4-cyl + 263V Li-Ion	40	34	37	$1,800
CR-V AWD TrailSport	Hybrid	AWD	2.0L 4-cyl + 263V Li-Ion	38	33	35	$1,900
CR-V FWD	Gas	FWD	1.5L 4-cyl turbo	28	33	30	$2,250
CR-V AWD	Gas	AWD	1.5L 4-cyl turbo	27	31	29	$2,300
CR-V e-FCEV	Hydrogen fuel cell	FWD	60 kW AC PMSM	36	43	39	—

*EPA estimate at 15,000 miles/year at EPA reference fuel and electricity prices. fueleconomy.gov record ids: 49353, 49488, 49489, 49352, 49487, 50392.

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Recalls (2)

Source: NHTSA recall database

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Tires

PPW

4,804 vehicles built Sep 8, 2022 – May 20, 2026 Hybrid only

Problem Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2023-2026 CR-V Hybrid, Accord Hybrid, and 2025 CR-V Fuel Cell EV vehicles that were previously remedied under NHTSA recall number 26V366. When using the tire repair kit, pressure may build within the sealant bottle, causing the bottle cap to detach. Risk A detached bottle cap can become a projectile and strike the user or others nearby, increasing the risk of injury. Fix Dealers will inspect and replace the tire repair kit nozzle, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed November 16, 2026. Owners may contact Honda's customer service at 1-866-784-1870. Honda's number for this recall is PPW. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning October 17, 2026. Vehicles previously repaired under recall 26V366 will need to have the new remedy completed.

Filed with NHTSADefect report PDF Dealer notice PDF

NHTSA campaign 26V663000 reported Oct 8, 2026 Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) the full filing, and every vehicle covered →

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Tires

DOV

1,048,613 vehicles

Problem Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2023-2026 CR-V Hybrid, Accord Hybrid, and 2025-2026 CR-V Fuel Cell EV vehicles. When using the tire repair kit, pressure may build within the sealant bottle, causing the bottle cap to detach. Risk A detached bottle cap can become a projectile and strike the user or others nearby, increasing the risk of injury. Fix Dealers will replace the tire repair kit nozzle or sealant bottle, free of charge. Interim letters notifying owners of the safety risk were mailed July 27, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available, anticipated in Fall 2026. Owners may contact Honda's customer service at 1-866-784-1870. Honda's number for this recall is DOV. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning June 11, 2026.

Filed with NHTSADefect report PDF Interim owner letter PDF Dealer notice PDF

NHTSA campaign 26V366000 reported Jun 4, 2026 Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) the full filing, and every vehicle covered →

These are vehicle campaigns — the ones the automaker filed against this model. NHTSA also records equipment recalls, filed by a parts maker against a component (a tyre, a child seat, an aftermarket part), and those are not listed here or counted above. nhtsa.gov/recalls shows both for a VIN.

Whether any of this applies to one specific CR-V

A campaign covers a build range, not a model year, so two identical-looking cars from 2026 can differ. Both of these check a VIN against the manufacturer’s own list, free, in about ten seconds. Honda publishes its own lookup because federal rule 49 CFR 573.15 requires it to, and to keep it current to within seven days.

NHTSA VIN check →Honda’s own VIN lookup →

Hear about a recall before the letter does

The manufacturer’s letter is the last step of a recall: it has up to 60 days after filing to mail owners, at the address on the registration. We email you the day NHTSA posts a recall on the 2026 Honda CR-V, with what to do next. Nothing else, ever — no newsletter, no marketing, one-click unsubscribe in every message.

Owner complaints

Source: NHTSA complaint database

171complaints filed

14 involved a crash · 4 a fire · 7 injuries · 0 deaths reported

5.0 per 10,000 built · Honda reported 338,888 CR-V built (its Early Warning production report to NHTSA)

Filed per year: 2025: 20 · 2026: 151

Most-cited components

Unspecified 40

Forward Collision Avoidance 37

Electrical System 31

Visibility/Wiper 27

Power Train 21

Steering 17

In owners' own words

Filed with NHTSA by the people who own these cars, one per problem area. Quoted as written, with anything identifying removed.

The check engine light turned on in my 2026 Honda cr-v hybrid, saying there was an emissions problem. The car is about 10 months old. When I took it in, they said the only thing that could have caused this problem was driving through a puddle or leaving it in a flooded area. This didn't happen - neither scenario.

Fuel/Propulsion System Oct 13, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11770926

Sudden loss of braking power on June 29, 2026, with sudden brake warnings. We had the same error after taking delivery of the vehicle in September 2025. The dealership repaired the vehicle (brake sensor). We have another dealer appointment on July 6, 2026 to repair this again.

Service Brakes Jul 5, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11748395

The contact owns a 2026 Honda CR-V Hybrid. The contact stated that upon pulling into the driveway, the contact noticed an abnormal sound coming from the front driver's side of the vehicle, where the battery was located.

Electrical System at 2,581 miles Mar 30, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11727930

I have reduced visibility due to the fact the windshield washer spray is not directed at the middle of the windshield. Because of the design of the washer nozzle being part of the wiper arm, the spray does not dispurse on the windshield until the arm of the wiper is in a vertical position near the edge of the driver side window, hence…

Visibility/Wiper Feb 3, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11715325

Honda emblem & sensor stollen very easily from vehicle, took the thief seconds to take off. All features disabled! Something this important & vital to the vehicle should not be that easily accessible to a thief! In researching, this issue has been reported on models in previous years!

Forward Collision Avoidance Jan 22, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11712676

Driving on the highway, when the glass suddenly shattered, there is no evidence of a projectile causing it

Structure Dec 1, 2025 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11702303

Complaint counts are raw owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects, and scale with how many were sold. Use them to spot patterns, not to rank.

Reported by Honda itself: 14 death-or-injury claims on this model year in its quarterly Early Warning reports to NHTSA (49 CFR 579.21): 15 injured, as claimed, not verified — about 4.1 per 100,000 built. Every CR-V model year, by year and system → Dated and by system, they are exhibit F of the defect dossier.

When owners reported it

Reported at 7k

miles, typically

Half the 14 owner reports with an odometer reading on file fall between 3,000 and 9,000 miles. That is when problems get reported, which is not the same as when they start — and not a failure rate, because nobody knows how many of these cars never had a problem at all.

Too few readings for a curve — the 14 on file: 11 under 10k, 2 10k–20k, 1 20k–30k.

Odometer readings as filed by owners with NHTSA. Readings under 100 or over 400,000 miles are dropped as data entry rather than history, and a component needs at least 12 readings before a median is shown for it.

Crash ratings

Source: NHTSA NCAP

Configuration	Overall	Frontal	Side	Rollover	Rollover risk
SUV AWD	★★★★★	★★★★☆	★★★★★	★★★★☆	16%
SUV AWD	★★★★★	★★★★☆	★★★★★	★★★★☆	16%
SUV FWD	★★★★★	★★★★☆	★★★★★	★★★★☆	16%
SUV FWD	★★★★★	★★★★☆	★★★★★	★★★★☆	16%

NHTSA New Car Assessment Program. Standard driver-assist: forward collision warning, lane departure warning, automatic emergency braking.

Service bulletins & campaigns

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications

Extended coverage on file 3 filings by the manufacturer with NHTSA naming this model year

Term not in NHTSA’s summary · Honda bulletin A26-019Under certain conditions, the cylinder head gasket effectiveness may be reduced which may cause vehicles to experience overheating, coolant loss, and/or misfire.
Term not in NHTSA’s summary · Honda bulletin A26-017Under certain conditions, the cylinder head gasket effectiveness may be reduced which may cause vehicles to experience overheating, coolant loss, and/or misfire.
Term not in NHTSA’s summary · Honda bulletin AEBM08262026901Dealer Message - Under certain conditions, the cylinder head gasket effectiveness may be reduced which may cause vehicles to experience overheating, coolant loss, misfire, and/or DTCs P0300 through…

The term and the vehicles it covers are the manufacturer’s, as NHTSA’s summary of each filing states them; a dealer checks one particular car by its VIN. Every Honda warranty extension (66) → · Every warranty extension on file, all makes →

Communicationsfiled with NHTSA 35

Most recentmanufacturer date 2026-10-07

Kindsas classified by NHTSA 18 service bulletins, 17 others

Most often about: Electrical System, Engine, Visibility/Wiper, Forward Collision Avoidance, Fuel/Propulsion System.

A26-024 Service bulletin
2026-10-07 · Electrical System
Service Bulletin - Siri stops working when touching the display to interact with Wireless CarPlay. Siri can also freeze when reading a text message or when inputting a destination in Apple Maps.
A26-024 Service bulletin
2026-09-25 · Electrical System
Service Bulletin -Siri stops working when touching the display to interact with Wireless CarPlay. Siri can also freeze when reading a text message or when inputting a destination in Apple Maps.
A26-019 Service bulletin
2026-09-25 · Engine
Service Bulletin - Under certain conditions, the cylinder head gasket effectiveness may be reduced which may cause vehicles to experience overheating, coolant loss, and/or misfire. In some cases, DTCs P0300 through P0304 may also be stored (DTCs are not required for repair).
A26-017 Service bulletin
2026-09-25 · Engine
Service Bulletin - Under certain conditions, the cylinder head gasket effectiveness may be reduced which may cause vehicles to experience overheating, coolant loss, and/or misfire. In some cases, DTCs P0300 through P0304 may also be stored (DTCs are not required for repair).
AEBM08262026901 Other
2026-08-26 · Engine
Dealer Message - Under certain conditions, the cylinder head gasket effectiveness may be reduced which may cause vehicles to experience overheating, coolant loss, misfire, and/or DTCs P0300 through P0304 stored.
A26-019 Service bulletin
2026-08-26 · Engine
Service Bulletin - Under certain conditions, the cylinder head gasket effectiveness may be reduced which may cause vehicles to experience overheating, coolant loss, misfire and/or DTCs P0300 thru P0304 stored.
A26-017 Service bulletin
2026-08-26 · Engine
Service Bulletin - Under certain conditions, the cylinder head gasket effectiveness may be reduced which may cause vehicles to experience overheating, coolant loss, misfire and/or DTCs P0300 thru P0304 stored.
A26-088 Service bulletin
2026-08-08 · Fuel/Propulsion System
Service Bulletin - To better manage engine temperatures, a PGM-FI update has been developed to optimize electric water pump operation.

A service bulletin is the manufacturer telling its dealers how to diagnose or repair a known condition. It is not a recall, not a finding that the vehicle is defective, and the work is not automatically free — though a bulletin is often what a dealer works from when you describe a symptom, so quoting the document number can save a diagnosis. The count is every communication filed; the list shows the most recent, one entry per campaign, because a single campaign is usually filed as several documents on the same day. The summaries are NHTSA's; the full documents come from the manufacturer.

Diagnostic trouble codes on file

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications and complaints

Codes documented against this model year in the federal record. A code appearing here does not mean this vehicle will set it — it means the code is part of this nameplate-year's documented history.

Code	What it means	Most often filed under	Where it appears
P0300 P0300 on Honda →	Misfire detected, but not isolated to one cylinder.	Engine · Ignition coils →	6 bulletins
P0304 P0304 on Honda →	Cylinder 4 is misfiring.	Engine · Ignition coils →	6 bulletins

Generic codes (the second character is 0 or 2) mean the same thing on every vehicle sold in the United States. Manufacturer-specific codes (1 or 3) mean whatever the automaker assigned, and no honest source can define them for you — which is why the ones here carry the evidence instead of a definition. A code is a link when enough separate federal documents name it across the catalogue to be worth a page of its own; the rest are listed here, where the vehicle is the context that makes them mean something.

Compare the 2026 CR-V with

Any vehicle, your weights →

Head-to-head	Verdict
2026 Toyota RAV4 · Compact SUV · grade A	RAV4 +4.9
2026 Mercedes-Benz EQE · Midsize SUV · grade A	EQE +40.4

CR-V by model year

all years, side by side →

Year Safety Recalls Complaints

2027 A 0 0 40 mpg 2026 this page B 2 171 40 mpg 2025 D 6 290 40 mpg 2024 C 5 481 40 mpg 2023 D 8 633 40 mpg 2022 D 6 348 38 mpg 2021 C 5 444 38 mpg 2020 D 9 441 38 mpg 2019 D 8 1,107 30 mpg 2018 D 5 2,161 30 mpg 2017 F 7 1,776 30 mpg 2016 C 3 394 29 mpg

Common questions about the 2026 CR-V

Source: EPA, NHTSA and manufacturer press kits

How much does the 2026 Honda CR-V cost?

Manufacturer pricing runs from $30,920 for the LX FWD to $42,250 for the Sport Touring Hybrid AWD, across 12 trims. Those are MSRPs from the manufacturer's own press material; they exclude destination, options, taxes and whatever the dealer adds. Every trim and price is listed above.

Does the 2026 Honda CR-V have any recalls?

NHTSA has posted 2 recall campaigns for the 2026 Honda CR-V. The most serious on file is 26V663000, covering Tires. 1 of them was filed with no repair available at the time — NHTSA's file records what the manufacturer had in hand on the filing date, not what exists today. The manufacturer's own estimate for when a fix would be ready: Fall 2026. Check your own VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; a recall applies to specific build ranges, not every car.

How safe is the 2026 Honda CR-V?

NHTSA gave the 2026 Honda CR-V 5 stars overall in its New Car Assessment Program tests — 4-star frontal crash, 5-star side crash, 4-star rollover. WhichTrim also grades it B (89/100) on its recall record, which is a different question from crash protection.

What is the fuel economy of the 2026 Honda CR-V?

Across the 6 EPA-rated configurations of the 2026 Honda CR-V, the best EPA combined figure is 40 mpg. Figures are the EPA's own, per configuration, and every one is listed above.

What do owners complain about on the 2026 Honda CR-V?

Owners have filed 171 complaints with NHTSA about the 2026 Honda CR-V, most often about unspecified, forward collision avoidance, electrical system. Of those, 14 involved a crash, 4 a fire, 7 reported injuries. Complaints are unverified owner reports, so treat the pattern as a signal and the individual report as an anecdote.

Are there service bulletins for the 2026 Honda CR-V?

The manufacturer has filed 35 service bulletins and related communications with NHTSA for the 2026 Honda CR-V, most often covering electrical system, engine, visibility/wiper. The most recent is dated 2026-10-07. A bulletin is not a recall: it is the repair procedure a manufacturer sends its dealers for a condition it knows about, and the work is not automatically paid for. It is still worth knowing — if the symptom matches, quoting the bulletin number at the service desk can save a diagnosis. The document numbers and summaries are listed above.

Which 2026 Honda CR-V trim is the best value?

$11,330 separates the cheapest of the 12 trims from the most expensive, so the answer depends on which of the differences you would actually use. Every trim has its own page here with the manufacturer's full specification and equipment list, plus a short summary of exactly what it adds over the base trim — worth reading before a dealer frames the walk-up for you. The trim-by-trim ladder shows what every step up costs and what it makes standard.

Is the 2026 Honda CR-V better than the 2026 Toyota RAV4?

The Toyota RAV4 edges it, 97.5 to 92.6, on safety, fuel & range, performance. The Honda CR-V is ahead on price and space & cargo. We publish a full side-by-side of the 2026 Honda CR-V against the 2026 Toyota RAV4 — specifications by family, equipment feature by feature, safety record and ownership costs. You can re-weight what matters to you and the verdict recalculates.

What we hold, and what an empty row means

Paid vehicle-history reports will not tell you the difference between “nothing happened to this car” and “we never received that record” — both of the big two say as much in their own help pages. Most of what is on this page comes from complete federal registers, so we can tell you which is which, row by row.

Data	Held	Source	What it covers — or what empty means
Fuel economy & configurations	6 configurations	EPA certification records	Every configuration the EPA certified for sale, with its own test figures.
Emission certificates	none	EPA emission certificates	The EPA published no certificate we could match to a configuration on this page.
Recalls	2	NHTSA recall campaigns	A complete federal register: every campaign covering this model year, with severity and advisory flags.
Owner complaints	171	NHTSA complaint database	Also complete, but unverified: these are reports owners filed, not findings. Counts scale with how many were sold.
Crash ratings	4 tested	NHTSA NCAP	Only the configurations NHTSA chose to crash-test, which is never all of them.
Service bulletins	35	NHTSA manufacturer communications	Everything the manufacturer told its dealers about a defect or malfunction, short of a recall.
Investigations	none	NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation	No defect investigation has been opened.
Driver-assist crash reports	none	NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01	No report has been filed. Only entities named in the order report, and only crashes they hear of — so this is also what an unequipped car, or a manufacturer without telematics, looks like.
Specifications filed with NHTSA	none	NHTSA vPIC, decoded from VIN patterns	We had no VIN pattern to decode for this model year, or the manufacturer filed nothing usable.
Trims, pricing & equipment	12 trims	Manufacturer press kit	Transcribed from the manufacturer's own press material, every value carrying the document it came from.

Rebuilt nightly; this page was generated 2026-10-26. Every figure above is traceable to the source named beside it, and the JSON for this page carries the same values with their identifiers.

Sources & method

Safety Signal starts every model-year at 100 and subtracts points per open NHTSA recall campaign by severity: critical 15 (fire risk, park-outside or do-not-drive advisories), high 8 (brakes, steering, airbags, loss of drive power, structure, battery), moderate 6, minor 3 (software, labels, lighting fixed by an update). The most serious recall counts in full and each further one counts 85% of the one before, because a vehicle sold in millions is recalled more often than a rare one without being more dangerous — and because a flat subtraction bottomed the scale out, scoring a vehicle with 22 recalls within a point of one with six. A ≥ 90, B ≥ 80, C ≥ 70, D ≥ 60, otherwise F. Read it as what it counts: recall campaigns on the federal record, weighted by severity. The damping reduces the sales bias by roughly 40% but does not remove it: like our complaint counts, this is not normalized by how many were sold, so a best-seller still scores somewhat worse than an obscure model with the same real risk. NHTSA crash ratings, do-not-drive and park-outside advisories, and the crash, fire, injury and death counts in owner complaints are reported separately on every page and never blended into the letter — a vehicle can hold five stars and a poor letter at once, and where that happens we say so rather than leave you to notice. Because the scale subtracts from a clean sheet, a model year too new to have been recalled, complained about or bulletined scores full marks on an empty record; we label those grades provisional rather than present them as earned.

EPA figures come from fueleconomy.gov vehicle records. Recalls, complaints, investigations and crash ratings come from NHTSA's public flat files, refreshed nightly. Trim-level specifications and pricing are transcribed from the manufacturer's official press kit; every value carries its source in the data file.

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2026 Honda CR-V

Trims & pricing

Specs & fuel economy

The cheapest ownership win

Recalls (2)

Tires

Tires

Whether any of this applies to one specific CR-V

Hear about a recall before the letter does

Parts & accessories for the 2026 Honda CR-V

Owner complaints

Most-cited components

In owners' own words

When owners reported it

miles, typically

Crash ratings

Service bulletins & campaigns

Diagnostic trouble codes on file

Compare the 2026 CR-V with

CR-V by model year

Common questions about the 2026 CR-V

How much does the 2026 Honda CR-V cost?

Does the 2026 Honda CR-V have any recalls?

How safe is the 2026 Honda CR-V?

What is the fuel economy of the 2026 Honda CR-V?

What do owners complain about on the 2026 Honda CR-V?

Are there service bulletins for the 2026 Honda CR-V?

Which 2026 Honda CR-V trim is the best value?

Is the 2026 Honda CR-V better than the 2026 Toyota RAV4?

What we hold, and what an empty row means

Where to go next

Sources & method