I did a google search about the typography of Vancouver island this morning and found that it is mountainous, so if you get a Honda CR-V with the CVT transmission you should do drain and fills every 25 K miles. You will probably use the S mode often if you want plenty of get-up-and-go going up mountains, and leaving it in S while going down-hill provides more engine braking which would be easier on the brakes.
The 2016 Honda CR-V comes in different trim levels.
The base stripped down version is the LX. The LX has 16 inch steel rims. Do not buy an LX model because it does not have the very small camera below the right side mirror that displays what is in your blind spot if you turn on the right turn signal, or press the button on the end of the turn signal. This feature is very handy if you are changing lanes from left lane to right lane.
The next model above the LX is the SE. The SE has 17 inch alloy wheels, I do not know if the SE has the camera below the right side mirror, but if it does not, do not buy one.
The next model up is the EX. The EX 17 inch alloy wheels, and has the blind spot camera, cloth seats, and six way adjustable power drivers seat that is very comfortable, and both front seats have independent heating that you can turn off or on and when on there are two heat settings low and high, and it has a moon roof. This is the model bought. I did not want a moon roof because of the possibility of water leaking in but so far it has been fine. I treat the rubber seal on the moon roof and the rest of the vehicle (doors) with a rubber seal conditioner make by 303. And there is a panel that you can slide below the moon-roof that completely blocks off all sun-light and noise.
The next model up is the EX-L. The EX-L has all the options of the EX and leather seats, and the rear-view mirror in the center top of the windshield has an automatic day/night shift feature so the driver never has to select day or night on it, and it has a big bass speaker hidden in-front of the bottom of the drivers seat. This is the most common model. You can expect to see many EX-L models when you go looking for a used Honda CR-V. My sister has an EX-L in a 2018 version ( her husband and her bought it new and I did not know they were looking for one). She got the optional $600.00 Honda remote start, and the optional power rear hatch that opens and closes with the press of a button. She like it, and has not had any problems with fuel dilution with the 1.5 L turbo engine so far. But before covet-19 she was working and had to travel about 10 miles each way to and from work.
The next model up is the Touring. The Touring has 18 inch alloy wheels, and all the options that the EX-L has. And (I think, but am not 100 % sure) all the options that are optional on the other models. I think it comes standard with power rear hatch, lane watch drivers assist, and navigation. I could be wrong about the navigation and the prescription radio, that may still be an options that you have to pay for, but I am not sure. The Touring models are the top of the line version and cost a lot more when new, so you can expect to pay more for a used Touring model.
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If you find a 2016 with low miles, a clean car-fax report (no accidents), and car-fax report showing regular oil and filter changes, do not expect it to stay on any dealers lot long. Those are the ones that sell fast. I would offer $150.00 below what the dealer asks. That is about all you can expect to talk them down on one like that.
If it is at a Honda dealer and comes with a Honda Certified pre-owned warranty you will be getting one year on non-power train items, and the reminder of the 7 year 100,000 mile power-train warranty. If the dealer tries to sell you an additional extended warranty, DO NOT BUY IT. The additional extended still looks at the date of the original purchaser as the date that they start the warranty from and goes to 7 years from that date. So you will be buying no additional warranty on the power-train because you already have the 7 year power-train warranty. And if you are getting the Honda Certified pre-owned warranty you already have one year on non-power train items. So all this additional extended warranty really is good for is about 2 years on not-power-train items beyond the one year you already have. And the price they want for it is too high. They will use pressure techniques by telling you, you only have the day of the sale to purchase it. In the contract there is a statement that if you do buy it, and decide within the first 60 days you do not want it, you can cancel it and get all of your money back. So if they do pressure you into buying it, you can realize that all you are buying is about 2 years on non-power-train items (after the one year you already have), and get out of it before that 60 days are up. But I would just not buy the extended warranty in the first place because the additional 2 years at the price they want is not worth it. If a high price item like the electronics for the dash goes bad, you can get second had ones at salvage yards for less than Honda wants for them. There were 359,673 2016 new Honda CR-V's sold in the United States. New and use parts are going to be around for them for many years. They are like the Chevy Impala was years ago. You see them everywhere.
I found my 2016 Honda CR-V with 19,788 mile on it and a clean car-fax report (no accidents) and regular oil and filter changes back in February and jumped on it. It had only been at up for sale a couple of days. The dealer had resurfaced the brake disks and put new brakes on it on all 4, and had put 4 new tires on it, and changed the fluid in the rear end. Also the original owner had a new battery put in it in December 2019. My brother went with me to look at it, and he is better at negotiating a lower price than I am. I am into the details of the vehicle.
The only problem I have had is that after I drove it for a week I noticed that on long straight roads I had to hold some left into the steering-wheel. The test drive rout the sales person had me take did not include long straight roads for a long enough drive to notice this then. I called the Honda dealer on a Thursday, and they had me bring it in the following Monday and aligned it. The back wheels were very slightly out of alignment and they put them back into alignment for free. My independent mechanic said the Hunter machine the dealer used cost $60,0000 dollars. The print out they gave me about the alignment shows them measuring the angles down to 1/100 of a degree, and how much it was out of specification before the alignment and what the measurements were after it was aligned. That is pretty darn accurate. The local alignment shop I used for my vehicles in the past does not have any machine that accurate.
I like my 2016 CR-V EX and have put about 1,800 miles on it so far. I plan to change the fluids often and to use only Honda fluids for the CVT trany and the rear end, and hope to keep this vehicle for a very long time.
Good luck in what ever vehicle you end up getting.
