2025 Honda Odyssey

Price Range: $41,920 - $50,880

Great

8.1

out of 10

edmunds TESTED

The 2025 Honda Odyssey is well suited for making family life easier. It provides plenty of space for people and cargo, lots of helpful features, and an enjoyable driving experience. You might not love the idea of driving a minivan, but the Odyssey makes the best of it.

#2 out of 6

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33 Owner Reviews

Pros

Pro:Configurable second-row seats are very useful
Pro:Roomy for both people and cargo
Pro:Strong V6 engine and stable handling make it enjoyable to drive

Cons

Con:Mediocre fuel economy
Con:No power-folding third-row seats or surround-view camera system
Con:Overly vigilant forward collision warning system is frustrating

What’s new

Updated styling and technology features
Entry-level EX trim dropped
Part of the fifth Odyssey generation introduced for 2018

6 Colors
4 Trims

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2025 Honda Odyssey Review

Overview

Written by automotive expert Dan Frio

1/10/2025

Minivans might not be considered cool or chic, but they are some of the most practical family cars on the market. Case in point, the 2025 Honda Odyssey has sufficient space to comfortably fit the whole family and their cargo. This hauler is packed with modern safety and tech features to ensure your family is in good hands too. It might not look like a fun vehicle to drive, but overall the Odyssey offers an enjoyable ride that leaves little room for complaint. For 2025, the Odyssey is updated with a restyled grille and front and rear bumpers on the outside, plus a few new features inside the cabin. Highlights include a larger center touchscreen, a new digital gauge cluster display, and a revised rear-seat entertainment system with a larger screen.

Edmunds spotlight: Cabin amenities for the win

Besides plenty of space in the Odyssey's cabin for both humans and baggage, the large sliding doors make loading and unloading so much easier. Honda outfits the Odyssey with the delightful trick second-row seats that allow you to slide — and remove — different portions of the second row into various, and convenient, configurations. Overall cabin comfort: Check. There's even an available cabin intercom system. A microphone picks up your voice and transmits it to the rear via the speakers or the rear entertainment system's headsets. Now you don't have to shout or look back to call some attention. How handy.

Competitors to consider

The Honda Odyssey battles the Chrysler Pacifica, the Kia Carnival and the Toyota Sienna for minivan supremacy. Each offers distinctive qualities that make them great alternatives, and all except the Odyssey offer a hybrid powertrain. Of course, there's also a myriad of SUVs that can suit your family-hauling needs very well. Make sure to read our Expert Rating below to see if the Odyssey is the best fit for you.

Which Odyssey does Edmunds recommend?

We think it's hard to beat the base Honda Odyssey EX-L. It's well equipped with about all you need for daily family shuttling and longer trips on the highway, such as sliding second-row seats, leather upholstery and wireless Apple CarPlay/Android Auto connectivity. The higher trims get you some nice extras, but the EX-L offers a great foundation.

Compare 2025 Honda Odyssey trim levels

Helpful trims summary and side-by-side comparison chart

Honda Odyssey models

The 2025 Honda Odyssey is an eight-passenger minivan available in EX-L, Sport-L, Touring and Elite trim levels. A 3.5-liter V6 engine (280 horsepower, 262 lb-ft of torque) pairs with a 10-speed automatic transmission to power the front wheels.

EX-L
The base EX-L starts you off with:

Power liftgate
Sunroof
Heated, power-adjustable front seats
Leather upholstery
Second-row sunshades
9-inch touchscreen
7-inch driver information screen
Wireless connectivity for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration
Wireless phone charging pad

Standard Honda Sensing driver assist features include:

Forward collision warning with automatic braking (warns you of an impending collision and applies the brakes in certain scenarios)
Lane departure mitigation (warns you of a lane departure when a turn signal isn't used and can automatically steer to maintain lane position)
Lane centering system (makes minor steering corrections to help keep the vehicle centered in its lane)
Adaptive cruise control (maintains a driver-set distance between the Honda and the car in front)
Blind-spot warning with rear cross-traffic warning (alerts you if a vehicle is in your blind spot during a lane change or while in reverse)
Rear seat reminder (reminds you to check the rear seats for occupants when you park the car)

Sport-L
The Sport-L adds cosmetic upgrades and a couple of features:

Black grille and window trim
19-inch gloss black wheels
Darkened taillights
Black leather upholstery with red stitching

Touring
The Touring gets an appearance and tech upgrade in the form of:

Third-row sunshades
Front and rear parking sensors (alert you to obstacles that may not be visible in front of or behind the vehicle when parking)
Rear-cabin camera monitoring system (known as CabinWatch, it displays a view of the rear seating area on the touchscreen)
Navigation system
Rear-seat entertainment system with 12.8-inch screen

Elite
The range-topping Elite is loaded with features, including:

Rain-sensing wipers
Auto-dimming exterior mirrors
Hands-free power liftgate
Heated steering wheel
Ventilated front seats
Premium audio system

Build Your 2025 Odyssey

At a Glance:

6 Colors
4 Trims
$42,220starting MSRP

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Honda Odyssey Owner Reviews

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Most Helpful Owner Reviews

No better than my 2018 odyssey. Different problems

GdavidC, 09/19/2024

2024 Honda Odyssey Touring 4dr Minivan (3.5L 6cyl 10A)

2024 touring. 9 months 16,000 miles Sliding door on drivers side rattles when van is hot. When I finally got dealer to work on it they made it worse. Intermittently the Engine doesn't idle smoothly or when accelerating normally (but runs smooth if you run it hard). Sometimes you have to press hard on the brake to get it to start. Cruise control is programmed so that it does not TRY to … keep the speed on set point after coasting down a hill, but instead, it will let it get 2 mph below the set point before it back shifts & gives gas to accelerate back up to speed. It does this instead of gradually giving gas to try and maintain the speed it was set at as soon as it goes below the set speed. Lane Keeping Assist ( LKAS ) is a joke and can be dangerous. The biggest complaint is when entering a left curve, it will help you enter the curve early right across the line and then warn that you are out of your lane. It also does this on right turns but not as much. Driving straight down a road if you get on either line, it may not help pull you back but it will warn you that you are getting out of your lane on the dash. Collision avoidance system puts on the brakes for no reason driving down the interstate. I have had the road departure mitigation system activate while I was in the center of the lane on a two lane road with a trailer truck behind you! (Must be kept off for safety reasons.) Adaptive cruise control works great but may apply brakes during passing another car on a two lane road. Also, if someone is turning off the road the adaptive cruise control continues to apply brakes long after the car has made the turn and is no longer in your lane. I have 16,000 miles on mine now and now torque converter is developing a problem. Sometimes the lockup clutch doesn't lock in if you have been costing for several seconds, the RPM is low and you apply gas to accelerate. I have seen it go up to 3500 RPM in 7 gear driving 45 MPH. I have to let off the gas for a second then go again to get it to lock in properly when it does this. The good stuff is it has a better computer than my 2018 and it responds quicker. (Except for the door rattle) it is quieter in the van than my 2018 EX-L. It has good power when you put your foot down and get the RPMs up. So far the brakes are excellent and the idle stop works properly even though it hesitates on restart sometimes. (They don't give you the choice to turn idle stop off until you turn it back on. It is always active when you start the car until you press the button again). UPDATE: Road Departure preventive is dangerous & must be kept off. I will apply the brakes for no reason (even with a big truck right behind you). Lane keeping assist is re-tarded. It starts helping you turn into a corner on the interstate too much and then complains when you go over the line that you are getting out of your lane. The automatic cruise control will put on the brakes randomly when you are passing another vehicle on the interstate. At 20,000 miles the torque converter has started malfunctioning a little but not enough to throw a code. The Drivers side sliding door makes creaking noises sometimes. The second time I took it in for this, they said that they adjusted it and now it is much worse. When accelerating, there is a slight variation in thrust. Can't tell if it is the engine or transmission. I have taken the van in three times for all these problems with no results. The last item I don't like is the cruise control is programmed to not try to keep the speed right on the set speed. It will let it go 2 miles per hour under the set speed then back shift and accelerate back up to the set speed over and over anytime the terrain isn't just flat. At 27,000 miles, I am already starting to think about trading and wondering what I am going to try in stead of a Honda.

Comfortable Minivan (w/ a Couple of Dealbreakers)

ToyotaFan, 05/11/2024

2024 Honda Odyssey Touring 4dr Minivan (3.5L 6cyl 10A)

After being disappointed by the super-hyped Toyota Sienna, my family thought it might be fair to give the Odyssey a try. It was far more comfortable in ride quality than the Sienna, and the seats were also amazing.. Its lackluster MPGs belong in decades past, and its unexplainable NON-ceiling air vents in the rear will leave still-rear-facing children far more uncomfortable than …

Fabulous

Wolfman, 08/12/2024

2024 Honda Odyssey Touring 4dr Minivan (3.5L 6cyl 10A)

I have had our fabulous 2024 Odyssey Touring for 4 months. 10k miles. Best vehicle I have ever owned and driven. So quite and comfortable. Kids love rear entertainment system for road trips. Tremendous power when needed from v6 engine. Getting 30.8 mpg on the highway. Nav is terrific. Radio has great sound. So much storage and seating for 8 when you need it. Looks great also. Got the …

Deserves a 4.5 - Love this minivan

Nickhoosier , 09/27/2023

2024 Honda Odyssey Elite 4dr Minivan (3.5L 6cyl 10A)

We bought our Elite in May and they have worked out technical kinks out 2018 had. More info r a comfortable ride, adept braking and a good amount of power when you have it loaded up. I don’t live that they don’t put better tires on it (Michelin) but the Turanzas are adequate. Look no further if you’re in the market bc this is the flagship. The tech is very good and I wish it had a B&O …

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2025 Honda Odyssey