Passenger & boot space
How it copes with people and clutter
Front space
We have few complaints about front space in the Honda CR-V. If you extend the front seats all the way back, you'll have plenty of leg room unless you're exceptionally tall, and there's loads of head room.
Even models fitted with the panoramic sunroof won't put you at risk of smearing hair gel on its glass underside. By comparison, if you fit a Peugeot 5008 with a panoramic roof, the head room is greatly compromised.
Seat folding and flexibility
If you want front passenger seat height or lumbar adjustment, you need to upgrade to mid-spec SR trim. No CR-V offers a fold-flat front seat to give you the room to load super-long items from the dashboard to the edge of the tailgate as the Peugeot 5008 does.
The rear seats split 60/40, rather than the more useful 40/20/40 arrangement you get in the Peugeot 5008 and Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace. The rear seats recline for greater passenger comfort, plus the seats themselves fold completely flat because the seat base drops down into the footwell as the backrest flops down on top.
You also get handy levers next to the tailgate to release and fold down the rear seats easily if you’re loading from the rear. A small flap covers the gap between the boot floor and the seat back so nothing can get lost in the gap.
