2011 Honda Odyssey: Homer or Strikeout?

Edward Niedermeyer
by Edward Niedermeyer

How does he stand now in your eyes, this captain,
the look and bulk of him, the inward poise?

Homer’s Odyssey, Book 11 lines 391-392


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  • Carve Carve on Jun 21, 2010

    Absolutely hideous in profile, and I don't like the grille, either. That step down is just terrible. I thought the hips on the charger and Mustang were bad, but this takes the cake- espeically combined with that ginormous door track. It's like the person who designed the back third of the car never knew anything about the rest of the vehicle other than it was a minivan...it's like two seperate designs mashed together. Honda needs to get it's act together. The current Odyssey is by FAR the best looking van in the US, but this will definitely knock it down a few notches.

  • Dcdriver Dcdriver on Jun 21, 2010

    It seems like whenever the public gets their first glimpse of a new version of a very popular and ubiquitous vehicle, the consensus is that the new styling is bizarre. But yet once we see these things out on the road (and in great numbers) after a few years they become familiar and the styling becomes at least acceptable or even liked. I felt this way when the current Accord came out, I was like WTF when I first saw pictures. Now a few years have gone by and I see about a thousand of these Accords on the road every day and it looks fine to me now. I don't particularly like it, but it doesn't seem bizarre to me like it did when I first saw it. The one car to which this "familiarity breeds acceptability" theory of styling will not apply is the current Acura TL. That car will never look OK no matter how many I see on the road for any amount of time.

  • Windswords Windswords on Jun 21, 2010

    The Sebring of minivans. This actually makes the Sebring look like a cohesive design.

  • Qduffy Qduffy on Jun 22, 2010

    There are three things that can be seen by the human eye from space; the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids at Giza, and the rear door track on a Honda Odyssey.

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