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CNET On Cars - 2014 Honda Odyssey

2013-03-27
a doctor thank you why is Cooley excited about a minivan why's Cooley in a minivan I'll tell you every time one of the major manufacturers does a heavy refresh of any of the current minivans I get excited these tend to be a platform for great tech let me show you inside this 2014 Odyssey they've redone the center stack but not just the look of the thing also the guts of what's happening interactively hondalink is what they call a rollup of services that include aha mobile that means SMS text message support your kids will be texting you from like the second row you know how they are Facebook and Twitter as well streaming radio local restaurant lookups and directions things like that all paired through your smart phone but nothing nothing equals at the light that I had when I heard about this little feature in the back in the left corner of the rear cargo area is something I've never seen in a car before see that honda vac no kidding you pull this thing out and literally designed with the shop vac people who make the vacuum every have in your garage let's fire it up sounds legit let's get some Froot Loops they works really well I got to tell you it's much better than that crappy little plug in 12-volt one you've probably got hanging in your garage and it's not just for cleaning back here which snowin cares about check out the length of this hose this guy they tell me goes all the way around the length of the car sure enough here we are front row you can clean up the front row the second row the third row and the back that means you no longer have to get that back out of the garage which you never do which is why your car is so filthy and once you get your Odyssey all nice and clean it's time to go for a nice safe ride all good family attributes the 2014 Odyssey is gonna help you there with active lane departure and forward collision prevention technology so mom or dad can avoid running into the cars around or in front of them while they're dealing with the chaos behind them the new Odyssey arrives with an unchanged powertrain which is just fine by most people Honda's three and a half liter v6 is one of the best in the biz still front wheel drive of course and the car arrives sometime around summer of 2013
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