I would suggest you purchase a subscription to the online version of
Consumer Reports magazine.
www.consumerreports.org (approx $29.95 /yr).
You will be able to look up the reliability history of most vehicles by year
from 1998 - 2005. It will also give you deminsions and specs and road test
results. You are able to make comparisons of up to 4 vehicles at a time.
It will also specify whether or not it recommends a vehicle.
The 2nd suggestion for more general stats (and you can compare model years
and different vehicles as well) is on the J.D. Powers & Associates
website.--- it's
www.jdpower.com
When it comes to storage capacity, at least for the CRV, I've been able to
get 15 3cubic foot bags of mulch in the back of mine with the rear seats
folded down. And as for mileage, I've maintained a consistent 25mpg or
better in the year and a half I've had mine.
"John/Charleston" <not today> wrote in message
> Can anyone direct me to a source of info to compare the CRV model
> changes thru recent years. I'm trying to compare used CRV's with
> Subaru Outbacks for gas mileage, storage capacities, hp, etc. I
> can find info on 06 models but not on say the last 5 years' models and
> it seems like there were some significant changes, yes?
>
> Thanks,
> John