2021 honda odyssey awd12/28/2023 The SUV has a classic off-roader, tall-in-the-saddle feel. Jeremy sinek/The Globe and Mail At the wheel The Pilot’s suspension is stiffer and you feel the difference over bigger bumps. Not only that, if you remove the Odyssey’s centre section, the remaining outer seats become captain’s chairs that can also be adjusted sideways for extra versatility. While the Pilot’s three-person, 60/40 split, second-row seating can slide fore and aft, so can the Odyssey’s three-way-split middle bench. Once there, you’ll find similar shoulder and hip room on the Hondas’ rear benches, which are both three-person. But even then, a minivan’s low floor and sliding doors make the space much easier to enter and exit. You’d have to move up to a Chevrolet Suburban to match or beat the third-row legroom of a minivan. Note: Honda publishes two different sets of volumes for each model, based on different industry methodologies we compared the higher figures in each case.Īs for people, it’s a tie for legroom in the first and second rows, but in the third row, the Odyssey’s 21 centimetres of additional knee room makes the difference between having useable space for adults, or not. With the third-row seats down, the Odyssey has almost two-thirds more cargo volume.įlopping down the second-row backrests does make it easier to max out the Pilot’s cargo hold (and gets you a more-or-less flat floor) but if you can muster the energy to remove the Odyssey’s second-row seats (and have somewhere to store them) you can open up 4,470 litres compared with Pilot’s 2,912. The minivan’s load height at the rear is 20 centimetres closer to the ground, its tailgate aperture is 19 centimetres taller, and cargo volume behind the third-row seats is more than double the Pilot’s – 1,092 litres versus 524. Combine that with a 15-centimetre longer wheelbase, and almost 36 centimetres of extra length over all, and the Odyssey totally owns the Pilot for carrying people and their stuff. The absence of driveshafts to the rear wheels allows the Odyssey to have a much lower floor. Jeremy sinek/The Globe and Mail Spaceīeing front-wheel drive isn’t all bad. It’s your call, but to my eyes the Odyssey’s long-low-and-wide stance, wedgy nose and lightning-flash window-line kink are striking the stubbier yet taller Pilot looks rotund and tippy-toed in comparison.įlopping down the second-row backrests does make it easier to max out the Pilot’s cargo hold. It could go either way, depending on the proportions and the details. They’re both two-box shapes – with a compartment each for the engine and passengers, but no separate trunk – so there’s no intrinsic reason why one species would look “cooler” than the other. So, pricing in this case is almost a wash, except that at the lower end the Pilot comes with all-wheel drive but fewer features than a similarly priced Odyssey. ![]() The test sample was the flagship Touring trim, which is listed for $54,305.Īmericans can buy front-wheel-drive Pilots, but in Canada, all-wheel drive is standard six trim grades start at about $43,000 – the same as Odyssey, but in a barer-bones LX trim – and top out at $56,805 for the Black Edition, which is basically a Touring version with different cosmetic touches and only available in black paint … or, um, white. The Odyssey comes only with front-wheel drive, and in Canada it’s sold only in higher-spec trims starting at about $43,000 – there’s no $35,000 base model. ![]() These corporate siblings share the same mechanical underpinnings and 3.5-litre, 280-horsepower V6 engine (though, for some odd reason, the Odyssey has a 10-speed transmission, and the Pilot only a nine-speed). To make sense of it all, we borrowed a 2021 Honda Odyssey minivan and a Honda Pilot mid-size SUV. ![]() The Pilot comes in front-wheel-drive for Americans, but in Canada, all-wheel drive is standard.
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