MUST WATCH! 2018 Honda Odyssey Quick Test

What It Is: Honda’s Odyssey is one of the most established players in the minivan game, and it was fully redesigned for the 2018 model year. Practicality and family friendliness remain its key tenets, along with a focus on driving enjoyment that’s rare among vehicles with this much people- and cargo-carrying capability. It has stiff competition, however, in the form of Chrysler’s latest minivan, the excellent Pacifica, which narrowly outscored the Honda to claim victory in our latest comparison test. We were still eager to spend more time with the new Odyssey, and we’re thousands of pleasant miles into a 40,000-mile long-term test of a top-trim 2018 Odyssey Elite.

Why We Tested It and How It Performed: Having had plenty of experience with the Honda van’s top trim level, which comes with a Honda-built 10-speed automatic transmission paired with a 280-hp 3.5-liter V-6, we were curious to see what the Odyssey’s other transmission, a ZF nine-speed automatic, could do—particularly since Honda has promised to improve this transmission’s shift smoothness over the less-than-impressive behavior we’ve experienced in the Honda Pilot, where it also does duty in some trims. In the Odyssey, the nine-speed mates with the same V-6 on the LX, EX, and EX-L models, the last of which was the subject of this review. As it turns out, losing one gear made little difference at the test track. The 126-pound-lighter Odyssey EX-L gave up only 0.1 second in the zero-to-60-mph dash and exactly matched the 10-speed’s quarter-mile time and trap speed of 15.2 seconds at 95 mph.


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