Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd
I see that the rear wheels appear to have never even attempted to make the car move. And the driver got on the gas pretty good and spun the front tires wildly. It could be that they too quickly overcame the threshold for intervention (talking about a difference in speed here) and then once beyond that, the system won't even try to intervene (to protect itself). I also question if the system was somehow disabled...not as a conspiracy theorist, but I think that they had to at least have had the traction control disabled to prevent brake intervention. I wonder if something else was turned off as well. Being that the current CR-V's AWD system is somewhat electronically-controlled, there could have been an electronic anomaly involved.
Doesn't seem to be that much of an anomaly. When we were considering the CR-V, I watched a comparison review of the CR-V vs Forester on Youtube, and, while they were generally saying good things about the CR-V, when they tried driving both cars up a sandy hill, the Forester got quite a way before it became stuck with all four wheels spinning, whereas the CR-V didn't even try to use the rear wheels... as soon as the fronts began to spin, the AWD overheat light came on and disabled the AWD.
However, there are plenty of CR-V videos on Youtube showing it using the rear wheels in icy and snowy conditions, so clearly it does seem to work in typical urban driving. Treating it as an off-road car would probably be a bad idea.