Honda ZR-V

This is the catalogue record of the Honda ZR-V, one of 277 models Honda has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2022. 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 ZR-V properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. 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 Nissan Nissan Z, the Tesla Tesla Cybertruck, the Kia Kia EV6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Honda ZR-V reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L Honda L engine#L15C / L15C1 Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 (RZ3/5) / 2.0 L Honda K engine#K20Z5 / K20Z5 I4 (RZ1/2) / Petro; quoted output is 176 hp (L15C1) / 158 hp (K20Z5) / 139 hp (LFC) / 181 hp (H4 electric motor); kerb weight is recorded at 3159 –; drive goes through CVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive (RZ1/3/4) / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (RZ2/5/6). Worked together, those figures give roughly 56 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 ZR-V sits alongside the Honda Envix, the Honda Crider, the HPD ARX-03, the Honda 0 SUV. The record names the Honda HR-V (second generation) (North America) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Hirotoshi Tamura (exterior) / Daiki Ueno (interior). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Yorii, Saitama / Mexico: Celaya / China: Guangzhou (GAC Honda, ZR-V, 2022–2026); Wuhan (Dongfeng Honda, HR-V) .

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

The catalogue records what the Honda ZR-V was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.