In the final battle of 2021 F1, Red Bull Honda team won the 2021 Driver of the Year Championship in a dramatic reversal of Mercedes in the final lap. Honda, which is about to quit F1 in 2022, can also be regarded as a perfect ending to win an annual championship at the end. Honda has been in F1 since the 1960s, and the Japanese brand has brought too many surprises and tears to generations of car fans around the world. Hey so much F1, what does it have to do with Odyssey? You don't have to say that Odyssey and F1 really have a lot to do with each other.
So what does Odyssey have to do with F1? The Odyssey, born in 1994, had a very awkward experience at the design stage at the time. Positioned in the MPV, it must have had enough advantages in size, but Honda did not have enough budget to build a brand new production line, so it tried to build it locally at the Gorge Mountain factory in Saitama Prefecture, which at that time was building a car model. Honda also did not have too high hopes for the Odyssey, and once ordered that it could be built and abandoned if it could not be built. But no one could have imagined that this MPV, which was barely crammed into the production line of the car, would become one of Honda's most important models in the future. From Honda's attitude to Odyssey, it is not difficult to see that there is not much hope for this MPV, so the original Odyssey engine was completed by one person from design to test upgrade. This person is Taiaki Asaki, who is now the head of development of the F1 power unit and the director of the Honda Sakura Research Institute. You see, the person who designed the F1 engine and the person who designed the Odyssey engine are the same person, is it more confident to drive it?
Back in China, how many years have Odyssey and Buick GL8 occupied the domestic MPV market? In the price range of 200,000 or 300,000, Odyssey is definitely the benchmark in this positioning. Judging from the sales data released by the Association of Passenger Transporters, from January to November this year, the cumulative sales of Odyssey reached 43662 units, ranking third in the joint venture MPV, except for the second brother Ai Lishen, which is the unattainable Buick GL8. While Odyssey has always been a bellwether in the market, the threat has never diminished. Since the liberalization of the three-child policy this year, more and more MPV models have begun to emerge, interested friends can go to see, such as Beijing Hyundai Kustu, Yueda Kia Kahua, Trumpchi M8, and Toyota Senna, including the old rival Buick GL8, each of which is very exciting, has not lost the product strength and attractiveness of Odyssey, in such a large market environment Odyssey has to make a better upgrade.
In the case of the back and forth inches are difficult to move, the new Odyssey directly changes its face! In fact, at the Guangzhou Auto Show, the new Odyssey has already appeared to meet with everyone, and many people have not reacted to it in the first time after seeing it, because the change in the front face of the new car is too great. We can see that the new Odyssey adopts a layered grille design, which is larger and more atmospheric than the previous generation, with parallel chrome trims extending from the top to the front lip, and the bottom side also adds a matrix LED fog light design and upward fangs, which looks more delicate. The new light set is also very much in line with the current pursuit of technology in cars, and overall, the new generation of Odyssey is more fashionable and more refined.
The upgrade of the body side is mainly focused on the configuration, such as the addition of 18-inch double five-spoke hollow wheels, which is definitely the most sporty wheel hub in the MPV. The glass in the second and third rows has also been upgraded with soundproof glass, thus achieving three rows of comprehensive sound insulation glass, who said that the Odyssey is not soundproof noise can not be appropriate. The tail light set is connected by a through chrome strip, which looks more concise and recognizable.
The changes in the interior are also not small, in short, the sense of technology and grade have been comprehensively improved. These include a floating central control screen and a full LCD instrument panel. Electronic pushbutton shift structures and individual air conditioning control screens modernize new cars. The air conditioner outlet also adopts a penetrating design, and at the same time adds wood grain decoration to the central control panel and the door, and I don't know whether this is a home atmosphere or a business atmosphere, anyway, it is higher than the hard plastic grade.
In addition, the new car is also equipped with HONDA CONNECT 3.0 intelligent guidance interconnection system, which is a car-machine system with the new Civic and model, supporting OTA upgrades and richer intelligent entertainment functions. Don't look at the Odyssey born on the sedan platform so many years later, there is still no advantage in size, but in terms of use space and user experience, the reputation of Odyssey Magic Space is still very loud.
However, in terms of power, the new Odyssey may also use the hybrid system of the old 2.0L+ motor, with a combined power of 158 kilowatts. The fuel consumption of 5.8L per 100 kilometers is still very good. The new Odyssey changes are not small, but the MPV market cake is getting bigger and bigger, Odyssey in the future can not eat a big head is really difficult to say, it will depend on the specific pricing and model configuration, if according to the trend of SUVs and cars, the opponent of the Odyssey may no longer be GL8, Toyota Senna, but more understand the Chinese domestic brand.