One wonders how grippy a Honda Odyssey might be, how much more abrupt its turn-in might be, if it wore the Pilot’s 245/45R20 tires. * Canadian dollars, includes $1795 in fees. The 2016 Pilot is a very costly press vehicle from Honda Canada, the 2015 Odyssey is our very own long-termer, paid for with our own money.īut because the Pilot and Odyssey are Honda’s two big people carriers, we decided that this was the best occasion yet for the first ever GCBC comparison test. But with an all-new Pilot arriving for the first time since model year 2009 and with interest in SUVs/crossovers surging, Honda Canada sold 2889 Pilots in the third-quarter of 2015 2846 Odysseys.Įven after we set aside the fact that the two vehicles seen here are entirely different, the examples we have here for comparison aren’t directly comparable. Sales of the minivan are up 2% this year. Don’t be mistaken, Odyssey volume is still rising. If you want a frugal, flexible minivan with a rock-bottom price, we'd also seek out the base Toyota Sienna or better yet, the value-packed versions of the Dodge Grand Caravan, which leads the functionality and feature race while posting some unimpressive crash-test scores of its own.But Canadians now appear to be making a change. Moderately equipped, the Odyssey still strikes us as the better buy thanks to superior safety scores and its better interior room. Neither model offers all-wheel drive, either: Toyota's Sienna is the only minivan left in that market segment.įully trimmed, both vans top $40,000, a number that would make us nervous in the face of future college bills. The Quest handles pretty well, nearly as well as the benchmark Honda, but its drivetrain emits a little more noise and does much worse on city fuel economy tests than the Honda. The Honda sports a 6-speed automatic and the Quest uses a continuously variable transmission to eke out better acceleration and gas mileage. The HondaVAC vacuum system in the Odyssey Touring Elite wins here it's well integrated and it's just plain clever.įinally, for performance, both the Quest and Odyssey depend on V-6 engines for performance. Both Honda and Nissan offer goodies like a DVD entertainment system and power sliding doors and tailgates, and neither has the trick features like Chrysler's in-car wireless internet. The Quest used to have a cabin with two rows of disappearing seats like Chrysler's minivans, which makes the new one such a letdown.įor entertaining the troops, you'll have to buy more expensive minivans, regardless of brand. Neither the Odyssey or the Quest has fold-away second-row seats, but the Honda's second-row seats tilt and slide outward for more room. The eight-passenger, three-row Odyssey has a third-row seat that folds flat into the floor to create a longer load space the Quest's third row folds down but not into the floor, leaving tiered cargo spaces that can be convenient or a nuisance, depending on your needs. In safety scores and features, it circles the bases around the Nissan: the Honda's a Top Safety Pick and earns five stars from NHTSA, while the Quest has earned one of the lowest scores yet in the IIHS' newest small-overlap crash test.įlexibility is key here too, and the Odyssey's three-row seating is much more spacious and useful than the seven-passenger configuration in the Quest. It's also one of the best-looking of today's minivans, too, with its bulldog nose and its airy greenhouse.īeyond that, the Odyssey just clobbers the Quest. The Quest is smaller a little more city-friendly, and it steers as well as or better than the Odyssey. In each of those ways, the Odyssey handily wins this face-off. Minivans sell on just a few factors: safety, flexibility, and features.
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