Honda has updated the 2014 Honda Odyssey, which is making its debut this week at the New York Auto Show.
Honda has updated the 2014 Honda Odyssey, which is making its debut this week at the New York Auto Show. The 2014 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite offers new safety upgrades, a refreshed exterior and interior and a bunch of new technologies like the debut of HondaVAC, the first in-car vacuum.
The 2014 Honda Odyssey brings an array of improvements to Honda’s minivan, including structural upgrades expected to help it achieve top marks in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s (IIHS) stringent new small-overlap frontal crash test, which is part of IIHS’s new TOP SAFETY PICK+ protocol. The refreshed Odyssey Touring Elite will also come equipped with advanced Honda driver assistive and visibility technologies such as an Expanded View Driver’s Mirror, Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW).
On the outside the 2014 Odyssey gets a new, more deeply sculpted aluminum hood, new aluminum front fenders, a new bolder twin-bar grille, and a revised lower front fascia with integrated chrome-trimmed fog lights. The 2014 Odyssey also gets new two-tone mirror housings, darker-finish projector-beam headlight housings, LED taillight bars and new badging.
Inside the 2014 Odyssey gets new finishes and an all-new center stack showcases a host of new features. Additional standard technology on the Odyssey Touring Elite includes keyless Smart Entry with Push Button Start, HD Radio, an SMS text messaging function, and HondaLink featuring Aha Mobile interface.