Honda BR-V

Among the 277 Honda entries in the MotorJury library, the Honda BR-V holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2016. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Honda BR-V properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Ford Ford Escort, the Tesla Tesla Model 3 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Honda BR-V reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L Honda L engine#L15Z1 i-VTEC / L15Z1 SOHC i-VTEC Straight-four engine / I4 (DG1) / Diesel engine / Diesel: / 1.5 L Honda N engine#N15A1 / N; quoted output is 88 kW (petrol) / 73.5 kW (diesel); kerb weight is recorded at 1206 –; drive goes through 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / Continuously variable transmission / CVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 73 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Honda story

Within Honda's own catalogue the Honda BR-V sits alongside the Honda Envix, the Honda Crider, the HPD ARX-03, the Honda 0 SUV. The record names the Honda Mobilio (DG1/2) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Yuki Ishii and Keisuke Asai. Assembly is recorded at Indonesia: Karawang Regency / Karawang (Honda Prospect Motor / HPM) / Thailand: Ayutthaya (city) / Ayutthaya (Honda Ayutthaya Plant) / Philippines: Santa Rosa, Laguna / Santa Rosa,.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Honda BR-V was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.