Greetings to all of you proud Honda owners. I'm Tony, 69 years old, and retired in Cebu, Philippines after working way too many years in California.

I'm proud of my dependable ride, a 2005 awd Honda CR-V. Proud because this car has taken all the crappy third-world roads this country dishes out, and only yesterday the Honda dealer replaced the two compliance bushings to the front suspension. The next day I went back to replace the stabilizer links and bushings.

This CR-V handles like new, smooth in the turns all wheels to the road, no more clunks. The car has 125,000 km on it, it feels like it can go 100,000 more.

I was going to look at the 2015. If Honda brings the new CR-V with a 2.0 liter turbocharged engine plus CVT, it's going to be a really tough choice.