2016 Honda Pilot Review - Automobile
We’re bombing along a stretch of northern Kentucky back road, pushing ever harder into wide sweepers and tight switchbacks as lush rolling hills dotted with weathered black barns and Baptist churches whiz by. It’s the type of route more suited to... Virtually no one is going to go tear-assing across Kentucky bluegrass country in an all-new Honda Pilot like we are, but what the route so fittingly illustrates is how much more refined the 2016 Pilot is dynamically, how much better its powertrain... If it’s this good out here, then we can only image how good the new Pilot will be trundling along on the suburban soccer-game-shuttling circuit. These are critical areas customers care deeply about when mulling a vehicle like the Pilot, and Honda’s U. S. -based design and engineering teams believe they’ve over-delivered. Along the flanks and at the rear, the Pilot is now more in line with the rest of the segment, with extensive wind-tunnel testing influencing the design approach. Honda officials told us one of the biggest reasons why prospective customers didn’t buy the outgoing Pilot was because its boxy appearance projected a more utilitarian and, by extension, inefficient package. Source: www.automobilemag.com
