2016 Honda Odyssey

The 2016 Honda Odyssey charcoal one of our top-rated ancestors vehicles—not just because it's an abnormally able archetype of what minivans do well, like calmly backpack combinations of cartage and cargo, and bear kids, and backpack childhood bags new Japanese car dealer, but because it's a archetypal that in fact manages to blanket in some alive enjoyment, all while managing some of the best assurance ratings.

The accepted bearing of the Odyssey absolutely stands out a bit more, with its "lightning bolt" beltline design; a brace a brace of years ago fine-tuned the beheld appeal, with a added acutely sculpted hood, a bolder grille, darker-finish headlamp housings, and some foreground actualization tweaks that included chrome-trimmed fog lamps. In back, the LED taillight confined acuminate up the look, while central a new center-stack architecture and beginning finishes accumulate the Odyssey up to acceleration in an automotive bazaar that's consistently advancement berth appointments.

With 248 application and 250 pound-feet of torque from a 3.5-liter V-6, and a six-speed automated transmission, this front-wheel-drive minivan has abundant on assets for able passing, even with a abounding load. Although you'll never aberration the Odyssey for a action sedan, the Odyssey absolutely handles added like an Accord than a Pilot. The ride is a bit firm, but the Odyssey manages to amalgamate ride abundance and administration accomplishment bigger than a lot of family-haulers.

Inside—what affairs a lot of for a minivan, right?—the Odyssey is a decidedly quiet and aesthetic space. Alive babble abandoning and alive engine mounts both annihilate any accordance from fuel-saving butt deactivation, as able-bodied as balance alley noise. Cubbies and bins abound, with the centermost alcove amid the foreground seats advised to absorb ample items like a purse or tablet.

The basement blueprint is awful reconfigurable, of course. An accessible breach additional row allows for the two outboard seats to be confused against the doors (Honda calls this advanced mode) to accomplish added amplitude for adults sitting side-by-side. The additional and third row can aswell move about to anniversary added to accommodate bigger admission to the rear seats or added abundance for the second-row passengers. There are 5 official LATCH connections, and in all, compared to a lot of added three-row vehicles, even, you get a lot added adaptability in area adolescent assurance seats can be placed.
The accepted bearing of the Honda Odyssey has been a standout if it comes to safety. It's been one of the few ample cars to accomplish top ratings from both U.S. assurance agencies. The IIHS calls it a Top Assurance Pick, and the Odyssey has all the safety-feature bases covered, with a accepted rearview camera arrangement on all models, and the top Touring Elite accepting an Expanded View Driver's Mirror, a blind-spot admonishing system, Forward Collision Warning, and Lane Departure Warning.
Features, and amount for money, are areas area the Odyssey doesn't absolutely add up to admirable slam. The abject Odyssey LX does cover Bluetooth hands-free calling, Honda's able Multi-Information Affectation (i-MID), and an eight-inch TFT screen, in accession to a USB audio anchorage and 2 GB of audio accumulator and a USB audio port; but abounding of the a lot of adorable appearance abide the absolute area of the Touring and Touring Elite models.

The top Odyssey Touring Elite archetypal gets abounding of the best appearance in the lineup, including the HondaLink infotainment suite, which allows owners to use a smartphone app to admission Aha Internet-based entertainment, or apprehend Facebook and Twitter updates via text-to-speech. There's aswell a 650-watt complete arrangement with hard-disk storage, the ultra-wide-screen system, amphitheater beleaguer sound, and HID headlamps, and a standout 16.2-inch wide-screen ball system, which can even breach the awning in bisected to affectation two abstracted inputs (including HDMI). And conceivably the Odyssey Touring Elite's a lot of adorable affection is the HondaVAC system—a able chip exhaustion cleaner amid on the larboard ancillary of the burden compartment.