Sporty Honda crossover carves out a new niche

There aren’t many performance-oriented crossovers, but the Honda HR-V Sport aims to change all that, writes Matt Robinson

The Honda HR-V Sport is a compact crossover

Last year, across Europe, fully 25 per cent of Honda’s sales were of its ‘sporty’ models. Included in this healthy figure were the Civic Type R hot hatchback and NSX hybrid supercar, but the larger proportion were the Sport models – vehicles with less singular intent than the out-and-out performance cars ...