bmorton nailed it... where the hell did you get your info that prices had gone up by $3000? The increase is $1100 for 5 speed manual, $1200 for 5 speed automatic. Since the rest of our lineup went up by around $500, you are looking at really paying $600 more for foglights, roof rack cross bars, alloy wheels, and side step bars. Add that stuff up separately and you would be looking at over $3100 in extra cost.
So how exactly is this not a good deal?
And yes we are now in the final year of the current design for the CR-V. Didn't seem to hurt the Civic last year... Every car gets redesigned now and again. Honda did some pretty significant upgrades to the CR-V LAST year (2005) to keep it competitive, 5 speed auto, side and curtain airbags on all models, VSA on all models, so say what you want about Hyundai, it will be 10 more years before they can come close to Honda and Toyota for resale value. Meanwhile, better lease your Hyundai because if you buy it and want out of it, you will get absolutely raped on trade value...