FIRST LOOK: 2018 Honda Odyssey facelift in Malaysia – RM255k

Hey everybody, my name is Hafriz Shah from paultan. organd there we have the new Honda Odyssey facelift, just launched in Malaysia for RM255,000That is a little bit more than the old car which was launchedin 2013 at KLIMS13. Do this is not a brand new car, it’s merely afacelift. But what do you get for that money? Well at first in the front you geta slightly updated new look. The grille is slightly different, this ispractically taken from the Honda City, and at the bottom they are now fourslats instead of three, so there’s a bit more dark chrome down here. And if yousee the bottom, there’s also a "U" chrome that underlines the whole front look. That’s a lot of chrome, but there’s still less chrome compared to, say,the Toyota Alphard and the Vellfire, so it’s understated compared to those models. The headlamps are still using LED main beam, but the high beam is still halogensSomehow this does not get the full LED functions like on the on the Accord andthe Honda CR-V What it does get are these LED front fog lamps. And if you see the whole front as a whole, it’s quite a sporty looking MPV,definitely not a box people carrier. On the side you get brand new 17-inch alloywheels, multi-spoke dual tone alloys, and on theside you get this really cool body kit to make the car look more sporty, dynamicand pretty cool I suppose. It’s also a very very long car, it’s four point eightmeters long and the wheelbase alone is 2. 9 meters long. Also, this car alsogets the full Honda Sensing suite so at the top you get a cameraand the front also has a radar so this car gets the full adaptive cruisecontrol, Lane keep assist and also autonomous emergency braking like onthe Honda CR-V and Honda Accord Sensing. So that’s pretty cool, that’s somethingnew for this Odyssey facelift. Under the hood is the exact same engineand transmission as before, a 2. 4 litre naturally-aspirated four-cylinder enginetogether with a CVT transmission that’s exactly the same as before, so let’s move on. Under here are a pair of 360-degree cameras, and the doors are powered, bothleft and right. What’s not powered is the rear tailgate, so it’s bit of a shame fora car this of price, RM255,000, it’s not powered. In any case the rear is alsoslightly updated. The full LED rear taillamps get slightly revised graphicswith this thick LED bars, and in the old version this entire center parthere had the whole Odyssey lettering. For now they’ve moved the lettering downthere and as a whole this car looks slightly more classy than beforeOn the inside not much has changed. It still has very decent qualityplastics, same exact steering wheel, same centre unit and the same dual zoneclimate control air conditioning. The seats are again in black leather, butwhile the old model only had power on the front driver seat,now the front passenger seat also gets power adjustments. Slightly new is thisbigger, more comfortable, more supportive head rests and that also extends to therear where it gets these wider more supportive head rests. But as a whole you cantell that this car is a five, six year old design because it still uses old-schoolfoot operated parking brake. What’s new is this – it hasa much thicker much wider centre armrest so yeah when you drive you can rest yourwhole elbow there, feel slightly more comfortable. Also new is this for HondaSensing suite. There’s Lane Keep Assist, Autonomous emergency braking andof course standard electronic stability controlThere’s also adaptive cruise control buttons right thereOn the side you get camera buttons for a full aerial view of this model360-degree camera and in the middle here there’s now a slightly moremodern looking darker wood trim compared to the much brighter wood trim ofthe previous pre-facelift model. As a whole the quality is very decent, as youcan see there it’s slightly soft touch, especially the centre console over hereis nice and soft, but you’re not talking about premium levelsof luxury here. In the back here as you can see if you usethis car as a four-seater there’s loads amount of the leg room. Like I said theseats are slightly modified with thicker, wider, more supportive headrests. This iscloser to what you get in the Toyota Alphard and Vellfire and as you can seethe centre row is strictly for two. This car is technically a seven-seater,you can fit three in the back row but effectively it is a six-seater so two infront two in the middle and two in the backThere are three headrests for three people in the back but you’ll fit justtwo for them to be more comfortable. Now an MPV is all about the space right, solet’s see how large how spacious this car is. Now we have two adults herenormal sized, Mr. Jonathan Lee and Hafiz. Let’s go in. The last row is very easilyaccessible, the centre row just slides very easily and yeah as you can see over thereIt fits Mr. Jonathan Lee, how tall are you?I am 173. 173 cm with decent amount of legroom. 182 cm, also with this decent am ofount legroom so there you goa very decent MPV indeed. Now let’s take a look at the boot area. With allthe seats up there’s not much space, you can fit a couple of backpacks in therebut you can also fold the rear seats down, but it’s not a very easy processso let’s see me do it. As you can see it’s a very difficult long process. There’s like seven stepsthere that you have to follow, and the lock that holds the seat down is a verymanual, mechanical latch over here so yeah. But having done that you get anabsolutely massive rear boot space. This is even bigger than what you get in acomparably sized, say, Kia Grand Carnival. This is massive and if youwant extra space can also push the centre row all the way forward, push thebackrest down and this works as a huge cargo van. So there you have it, the newHonda Odyssey launched in Malaysia for RM255,000. It looks slightly different, it now has extra safety features inHonda Sensing but its price is slightly higher than before at RM255,000. What do you think of this car, do you think it’s new, fresh enough to go against itsbigger rivals like the Toyota Alphard, Vellfire,and even the Kia Grand Carnival. Let us know in the comments below. This you meHafriz Shah from paultan. org, thank you for watching.

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