03-20-2025, 06:57 PM
It sounds like a huge deal for you is reliability. It is for me. Second, for me, is retained value.
We've been buying Honda's for years for my wife--Accords and then CRV's. I used to buy Ford Rangers for me and figured I'd spend $800 on repairs over our ownership. When Ford stopped making them I shifted to a Toyota Tacoma. I'm staying with the CRV (maybe...) and the Tacoma because Ford is having reliability problems.
One thing-the CRV hybrid doesn't have a spare tire. They give you a can of the stuff that's supposed to fix the flats and (I believe) 3 years of towing. I didn't get a CRV hybrid in 2020 because of the lack of a spare. That worked out when we had a catastrophic blow-out in the middle of nowhere the day before we were going to Europe. Put on the spare and drove to Costco and bought new tires. I'm not going to buy a car without a spare until I have to. The Toyota RAV4 Hybrid still has a spare tire so I'll look at that when it's time to trade the CRV if we decide a hybrid car really makes sense for us.
My daughter recently bought a Mazda CX-50 and really likes it. She told me it has the highest IIHS safety ratings for the kids in the back seat. I don't know about reliability of Mazda's nowadays. I've owned one and happily traded it in early because of repairs. But that was a long time ago.
We've been buying Honda's for years for my wife--Accords and then CRV's. I used to buy Ford Rangers for me and figured I'd spend $800 on repairs over our ownership. When Ford stopped making them I shifted to a Toyota Tacoma. I'm staying with the CRV (maybe...) and the Tacoma because Ford is having reliability problems.
One thing-the CRV hybrid doesn't have a spare tire. They give you a can of the stuff that's supposed to fix the flats and (I believe) 3 years of towing. I didn't get a CRV hybrid in 2020 because of the lack of a spare. That worked out when we had a catastrophic blow-out in the middle of nowhere the day before we were going to Europe. Put on the spare and drove to Costco and bought new tires. I'm not going to buy a car without a spare until I have to. The Toyota RAV4 Hybrid still has a spare tire so I'll look at that when it's time to trade the CRV if we decide a hybrid car really makes sense for us.
My daughter recently bought a Mazda CX-50 and really likes it. She told me it has the highest IIHS safety ratings for the kids in the back seat. I don't know about reliability of Mazda's nowadays. I've owned one and happily traded it in early because of repairs. But that was a long time ago.