Luckily the radio helped cover up the noise from the rattly components. While wagon-like vehicles tend to rattle, it’s been a long time since I drove one with as many rattles as this one. It had quite a few rattles, and some the dashboard controls, particularly the radio knob, felt very cheap. Let me just stop right here and mention that this vehicle had decent build quality, but I didn’t feel it was much better than many others. After all, we wouldn’t want to tip over those drink boxes, now would we? The ride feels a bit firmer than the class-leading Toyota Sienna minivan, with ample body lean dialed into cornering to discourage any crazy thoughts, such as driving with gusto. The engine revs nicely, lending this vehicle decent acceleration, but you’ll always be aware of the domicile-like size and weight of this van.Ĭonsidering how easily it moves, it’s ride and handling are benign enough to please any parental units. Luckily, Honda stuffs a single-overhead-cam V6 under this vehicle’s hood, matching it to a five-speed automatic that’s remarkably smooth for a Honda automatic unit. At over 77 inches wide and 201 inches long, it’s sizeable enough to make you feel as if you’re piloting a hallway. Or maybe it’s because I don’t have the usual 2.5 kids and the vast acreage of stuff parents insist on toting along wherever they go with said offspring.īut really, the all-new 2005 Honda Odyssey minivan is a very large vehicle, especially for one with a Honda tag. Maybe it’s because I spend so much time driving, stuck behind a blobby-butted minivan festooned with bumper stickers telling either something I don’t want to know (”My son is an honor student at Upsy-Daisy Day School”) or some useless saying masquerading as general wisdom (”Meat is murder”). I’m the first to admit that while I can fully appreciate minivans, I can’t appreciate the need for one.
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