SHARE STORY The Honda CR-V might seem like it burst onto the scene, fully-formed, as the template for how all future compact crossovers would look and feel, but the trajectory to its near-dominance among family buyers took more than a few years of feeling-out. From its early days as one of the pioneers of the tiny SUV set, to finding its feet as a comfortable, safe, and useful daily driver that almost any family could afford, to its current place near the top of the crossover heap, the Honda CR-V consistently found a higher level of game as it climbed the sales charts.