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WHAT IS THE HR-V? GOOD QUESTION. It’s whatever you want it to be really. But it’s being marketed as a three-door sports utility vehicle, designed to appeal to young, style-conscious trendsetters with an active lifestyle – much like your average car tester, in fact. “Respectable rebels”, Honda dubs them. It wouldn’t thank us for calling the eye-catching newcomer the CR-V’s baby brother, so we won’t. But it is – well, sort of. It does, after all, share the CR-V’s “on demand” four-wheel drive system that transmits power to the back wheels only when it’s needed, and does so automatically via Honda’s clever Dual Pump arrangement (see page 3); there are no additional levers or push buttons