Cliff,
Take a look at this months Caravan Club magazine, it has a back-to-back owners review of the CRV and the Toyota RAV4 - and our copy is at home so much of this is from memory - but they do post fuel consumption figures
I seem to remember that the CRV "user contributed" write up didn't mention the new Honda diesel engine - probably just too new
Both Toyota and Honda are way out in front in terms of build quality, something needed fixing (on average) every 90,000 miles on the Toyota, and every 180,000 miles on the Honda.
The CRV was liked for it's part time 2 wheel drive automatically switching to 4 wheel drive when things got a bit slippy
Robert