2018 Honda Odyssey

2018 Honda Odyssey

2018 Honda Odyssey Honda took the wraps off a sleek, state-of-the-art and revolutionary new 2018 Honda Odyssey minivan, launching at dealerships nationwide this spring. Already the most popular minivan with individual American automobile customers for seven years going for walks, the next-era Honda Odyssey brings a bunch of new capabilities and technologies for 2018, which include a uniquely versatile new Magic Slide™ 2d-row seat; new CabinWatch and CabinTalk technologies; new Display Audio touchscreen with Honda-developed OS; 4G LTE Wi-Fi connectivity; new Rear Entertainment System with streaming video; and Honda Sensing™ safety and motive force-assistive technologies, now provided preferred on EX and above trims.

"This new Odyssey increases the stakes for own family-friendly packaging, overall performance and era inside the minivan phase," stated John Mendel, Executive Vice President of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. "In all components of its layout, the new Odyssey is made to preserve each family member glad, irrespective of the seating position, regardless of the vacation spot."

Sophisticated and Family-Friendly Design

The Honda Odyssey's state-of-the-art and contemporary new styling adopts Honda's signature flying wing front grille flanked via to be had LED front headlights. The ambitious and sporty front fascia also conceals a brand new Active Shutter Grille for improved gasoline efficiency while cruising. The Odyssey's signature lightning bolt beltline now affords a fair greater elegant layout element with the sliding door tracks hidden within the lower portion of the rear area home windows. At the rear there are LED rear lights and an available new arms-unfastened power tailgate with foot activation.

Inside, the new Odyssey functions high-grade substances such as a smooth-contact device panel. The driving force's meter functions a new 7-inch, complete-coloration TFT display, and in the center of the sprint there is an available 8-inch excessive-resolution Display Audio touchscreen interface (EX and above). In upper grades, stain-resistant leather-based first- and 2d-row seating surfaces and door trim and black carpeting and black seatbelts are designed to conceal stains, whilst a new grooveless tambour lid on the spacious and versatile middle console resists the buildup of crumbs and debris.

Safety for the Family

All 2018 Odysseys in EX and above trims, predicted to incorporate approximately ninety five percentage of all Odyssey income, will feature the Honda Sensing™ suite of superior protection and driving force-assistive technologies as preferred gadget, such as Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS™), Lane Keeping Assist (LKAS), Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) and Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC). Combined with the Odyssey's next-technology Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure and advanced airbags, inclusive of new driver and front passenger knee airbags, the Odyssey goals the best to be had protection scores - an NCAP five-celebrity Overall Vehicle Score and an IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK+ score.

Additional Features and Technologies

Additional new fashionable and available functions encompass LED headlights, heated and ventilated the front seats, heated side mirrors and guidance wheel, automobile excessive-beam headlights, rain-sensing wipers, blind spot records (on all models with Honda Sensing), front and rear parking sensors, Rear Cross Traffic Monitor, Electric Parking Brake with Brake Hold, 3-quarter automated climate manage, wireless tool charging, multi-region audio, Sirius 2.0, Pandora compatibility, HD Radio™, and HondaVac® in-automobile vacuum.

Advanced new powertrains, frame and chassis

The 2018 Honda Odyssey may be powered by using a three.5-liter, direct-injected i-VTEC™ V-6 engine with Variable Cylinder Management™ (VCM™). Peak engine output is 280 SAE net horsepower (+32 HP) and benefits from the superior talents of its  to be had new transmissions - a 9-velocity computerized and, for higher grades an all-new, Honda-evolved 10-velocity automated, the primary of its kind in a minivan, imparting extra assured and delicate performance.

These advanced new powertrains, collectively with a extra rigid and light-weight body, new chassis generation, and Odyssey's smooth and aerodynamic new design are predicted to result in elegance-main performance and pinnacle-in-elegance EPA gasoline economic system scores. Honda's Intelligent Traction Management gadget provides normal and snow modes and combines with Agile Handling Assist and a more powerful braking gadget for stepped forward all-weather traction and manipulate.

Advanced new body and chassis

An all-new body and chassis layout underpins the brand new Odyssey's extraordinarily quiet cabin and sophistication-main guidance precision, coping with prowess and journey comfort. The Odyssey frame utilizes advanced materials, along with extremely-high-electricity metallic, aluminum and magnesium to concurrently decrease weight and improve body tension. Vehicle weight is down by means of as much as ninety six kilos, depending on trim, and torsional body tension is up forty four percentage from the outgoing version.

New chassis functions encompass a fantastically-responsive new Dual-Pinion Electric Power Steering (EPS) with .44 fewer turns lock-to-lock for expanded reaction and clean maneuverability; and a compact new trailing arm rear suspension with stabilizer bar that now not best permits advanced dealing with and experience comfort, but also gives for the most spacious rear shipment location within the class.

Design, Development and Manufacturing

The all-new 2018 Honda Odyssey became designed and evolved by way of Honda R&D in North America. The Odyssey and its 3.5-liter i-VTEC V6 engine might be synthetic completely on the corporation's Lincoln, Alabama plant the usage of domestic and globally sourced elements. The new 10-velocity transmission will be produced at the employer's transmission plant in Tallapoosa, Georgia. The 2018 Odyssey is the second one technology Odyssey to be designed and evolved in North America and the fourth generation to be manufactured completely in North America.