What others are saying about the Honda Odyssey?
 PARENTING MAGAZINE NAMES THE HONDA ODYSSEY ON "Smartest Family Cars 2012" LIST |
What they said about the 2012 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite By the numbers: Three rows, eight seats, 19 mpg city/28 mpg highway Game-changer for lane-changers: The Blind Spot Information System provides an extra pair of eyes on the road (in the form of radar sensors). The door-mounted indicators illuminate when the sensors detect trouble. One DVD screen, two happy siblings: The split-screen monitor |
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has named the 2012 Odyssey a "2012 Top Safety Pick," based on more stringent standards implemented in 2010. The Odyssey received top ratings in each category including frontal offset, side impact and rear impact crash safety tests and the new roof-strength test. Find out more about the ratings: Nine 2012 Honda Models Earn Top Safety Pick by IIHS
ALG, the leading provider of residual values awards the 2012 Honda Odyssey BEST MPV. Find out more about it here
Edmunds calls the Honda Odyssey the drives mini-van "closest thing to an eight-passenger sport sedan," and as you can see in the video above this is the van of choice. 2011 Honda Odyssey is a winner of an Edmunds' Inside Line Editors' Most Wanted award for 2011. The editors at Edmunds concluded the Odyssey's road manners "will win the heart of any car guy-turned-family man."
Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com has named the 2011 Honda Odyssey the "Best Redesigned Vehicle for 2011". The kbb.com editors praised the Odyssey engineers and designers for successfully tackling the difficult task of improving an already very successful, hot-selling model that is widely regarded as the pinnacle of its class.
"The 2011 Honda Odyssey improves on its predecessor in every way imaginable, offering a better-looking, more contemporary exterior design, a sumptuous interior stuffed with innovative features, and class-leading fuel economy," said Jack R. Nerad, executive editorial director and executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com. "Its safety, refinement, resale value and trouble-free nature are combined with a surprising level of fun-to-drive, so it is not difficult to see why Honda refers to the 2011 Odyssey as the 'ultimate in family transportation.'"
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) toughened up its crash-saftey tests for 2011, and the Odyssey passed with flying colors. In fact, the Odyssey earned 5-stars in each seating position of all three crash-safety tests, as well as earning a 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score*
Cars.com has named the all-new 2011 Odyssey this year's "Family Car of the Year." The editors evaluated every aspect of what families need and want in a vehicle and concluded that "Honda took a gamble this year to jump-start the evolution of the minivan, and it's paying off. The Odyssey received a complete makeover—minivan style—resulting in a sleeker, sportier, more modern minivan while raising the bar on flexibility and functionality."
Honda has a history of environmental leadership dating back to a time when green was simply a color. Several decades later, we are proud to carry that tradition along, and be recognized as the country’s Greenest Automaker by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)―for the fifth time in a row[1].
[1] Based on a Union of Concerned Scientists analysis of fleetwide global warming and smog emissions from 2008 model year vehicles.
* Based on frontal crash- and side crash-safety ratings and Overall Vehicle Score in the NHTSA NCAP testing. Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of NHTSA's New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). Model tested with standard side airbags (SABs). Vehicles tested under the new program cannot be compared to MY10 and earlier vehicles
