Being that’s only a matter of weeks before the new CR-V arrives in Honda’s showrooms across the United States, it doesn’t come to much of a surprise that the media has already had some time behind the wheel of the Japanese maker’s crossover model.

Today, we found two first test drive videos of the 2012 Honda CR-V from Motor Trend magazine and Consumer Reports, both of which, more or less state the same: that the crossover model has been refined in an evolutionary manner building on the qualities of its predecessor.

You can watch both tests along with Honda’s first web-commercial on the new CR-V right after the break.

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