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    New CRV--Now I know...

    07-20-2012 02:58 PM #1
    Where Honda got the idea for the taillight design.

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    07-20-2012 03:06 PM #2
    Um... welcome to like 8 months ago
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    07-20-2012 03:54 PM #3
    Quote Originally Posted by 2.0T_Convert View Post
    Um... welcome to like 8 months ago
    Not only that, the Volvo doesn't even say CR-V on it anywhere!
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    07-20-2012 04:49 PM #4
    Quote Originally Posted by Lwize View Post
    Not only that, the Volvo doesn't even say CR-V on it anywhere!
    lol
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    07-20-2012 05:22 PM #5
    Quote Originally Posted by 2.0T_Convert View Post
    Um... welcome to like 8 months ago
    I know, I know. It was one of those things where the CRV's taillights looked really familiar, but I couldn't place it until I saw an XC60 and a CRV next to each other.
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    07-20-2012 05:23 PM #6
    you just spend 2 of the 7 posts you made in 3 years on this?
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    07-20-2012 07:15 PM #7
    That's my buddy's Volvo CR-V, could you blur out the plates please.
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    07-20-2012 07:23 PM #8
    Quote Originally Posted by warren_s View Post
    That's my buddy's Volvo CR-V, could you blur out the plates please.

    Done. Thought I got it blurred out properly in the flickr editor.

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    07-20-2012 07:25 PM #9
    Quote Originally Posted by DUTCHMANia View Post
    you just spend 2 of the 7 posts you made in 3 years on this?
    Joined Vortex a long time ago when I was thinking about a Mk 6 GTI but only recently discovered TCL, so I'm still sort of new. I really like the community of car folks on here but I guess it's gonna take awhile to get up to speed. Sorry for wasting your time.
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    07-20-2012 07:27 PM #10
    Quote Originally Posted by warren_s View Post
    That's my buddy's Volvo CR-V, could you blur out the plates please.
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    07-20-2012 07:44 PM #11
    Quote Originally Posted by c615586 View Post
    Joined Vortex a long time ago when I was thinking about a Mk 6 GTI but only recently discovered TCL, so I'm still sort of new. I really like the community of car folks on here but I guess it's gonna take awhile to get up to speed. Sorry for wasting your time.
    LOL Well FYI the "blur the plates" thing was a joke.

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    07-20-2012 10:51 PM #12
    Pretty sure the CR-V was copied by Volvo back in the day. Who was first?
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    07-21-2012 01:08 AM #13
    I see only similarities, but would never mistake one for the other. I know Honda had the tail lights straddling the C pillar since early generations of the CRV and before Volvo decided to drop the boxer shorts and go with the girdle design aimed at all those independant career women.
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    07-21-2012 03:50 AM #14
    didnt volvo have it back in the early-mid 90's on their wagons though?
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    07-21-2012 04:48 AM #15
    Quote Originally Posted by 1995Camry View Post
    didnt volvo have it back in the early-mid 90's on their wagons though?
    Volvo started the bumper to roof vertical tails mid 90s with the 850.



    99 cross country.



    02 cross country- beginiing of the "designed" rear light design versus just the | design.



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    And yes- to say the Honda CRV designers didn't not use the Volvo design as inspiration is ludicrous.
    But this is normal- you take successful/popular designs and design cues and try and form your own version.
    Volvo's designs were fairly popular in the 2000s and seen as better than mainstream, so it makes sense for designers to add some of those design cues to their mainstream offerings.
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    07-24-2012 06:06 PM #16
    Quote Originally Posted by 2.0T_Convert View Post
    Um... welcome to like 8 months ago
    I've been saying that for well longer than 8 months; Volvo started the D-pillar taillights.


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    Kinda funny how they both evolved to include a 'bulge' at the bottom.
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    07-24-2012 06:59 PM #17
    The 07-11 CR-V looked like an XC90 in the rear. Since there is no second-generation XC90, Honda instead chose to be..."inspired" by the XC60.
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    07-24-2012 07:03 PM #18
    Quote Originally Posted by BRealistic View Post
    Volvo started the bumper to roof vertical tails mid 90s with the 850.



    99 cross country.






    And yes- to say the Honda CRV designers didn't not use the Volvo design as inspiration is ludicrous.
    But this is normal- you take successful/popular designs and design cues and try and form your own version.
    Volvo's designs were fairly popular in the 2000s and seen as better than mainstream, so it makes sense for designers to add some of those design cues to their mainstream offerings.

    The second gen CRV taillight is very similar to the '99 XC 'lights, too.

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