The absence of driveshafts to the rear wheels allows the Odyssey to have a much lower floor. Jeremy sinek/The Globe and Mail Spaceīeing front-wheel drive isn’t all bad. It’s your call, but to my eyes the Odyssey’s long-low-and-wide stance, wedgy nose and lightning-flash window-line kink are striking the stubbier yet taller Pilot looks rotund and tippy-toed in comparison.įlopping down the second-row backrests does make it easier to max out the Pilot’s cargo hold. It could go either way, depending on the proportions and the details. They’re both two-box shapes – with a compartment each for the engine and passengers, but no separate trunk – so there’s no intrinsic reason why one species would look “cooler” than the other. So, pricing in this case is almost a wash, except that at the lower end the Pilot comes with all-wheel drive but fewer features than a similarly priced Odyssey. The test sample was the flagship Touring trim, which is listed for $54,305.Īmericans can buy front-wheel-drive Pilots, but in Canada, all-wheel drive is standard six trim grades start at about $43,000 – the same as Odyssey, but in a barer-bones LX trim – and top out at $56,805 for the Black Edition, which is basically a Touring version with different cosmetic touches and only available in black paint … or, um, white. The Odyssey comes only with front-wheel drive, and in Canada it’s sold only in higher-spec trims starting at about $43,000 – there’s no $35,000 base model. These corporate siblings share the same mechanical underpinnings and 3.5-litre, 280-horsepower V6 engine (though, for some odd reason, the Odyssey has a 10-speed transmission, and the Pilot only a nine-speed). To make sense of it all, we borrowed a 2021 Honda Odyssey minivan and a Honda Pilot mid-size SUV. The Pilot comes in front-wheel-drive for Americans, but in Canada, all-wheel drive is standard.
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