many yearned-for features of the outdoorsy type, such as Honda's RealTime four-wheel drive (4WD) technology, 16-inch alloy wheels, front and rear skid plates, sidestep bars, plenty of cargo space, ...

engineers and marketing people work together. It is a compact SUV that was never intended to go off-road, which, when it came out, before the term crossover was even dreamt up, went against the grain.