Honda is implementing a model year update on the Odyssey, an MPV that is not available in Europe, but that is a well-known name in the United States and Canada.
At the beginning of 2017, Honda introduced the current fifth generation of the Odyssey to the world (photo 3 and 4), an MPV of which the very first generation was sold as Shuttle between 1994 and 1998 in the Netherlands (Photo 5 and 6). After the first generation, the Odyssey split into one line for the home market and one for the North American market. It is the latter that has now been optically renewed.
The optical changes that Honda has made on the Odyssey are not very drastic. The MPV gets new LED headlights and a grill from which the large pieces of chrome have been removed and which only has a wide chrome strip at the top. Honda adjusts the frames of the fog lamps and Honda speaks of the use of glossy black material under the rear window, but does not show any images of this yet.
Other adjustments have to do with the equipment. Honda’s package of safety systems, Honda Sensing, is now standard available. The package has been extended with pedestrian detection. In the interior Honda uses other controls for climate control and the seats in the second row would from now on be easier to fold or remove. There is no messing around on the powertrain. Even now there is a 285 horsepower 3.5 V6 in the nose that is linked to a ten-speed automatic transmission.