I don’t want to notice anything pertaining to the transmission at all. (Okay, that would actually be pretty cool.) I don’t want to hear the burbling crackle-and-pop downshifts I experienced in an AMG C43 Cabriolet two weeks ago. I don’t want to be cognizant of negotiations between ninth and tenth at highway speeds. I don’t want to be made aware of the smoothness with which the 10-speed migrates slowly but surely from fifth into sixth. In an MPV capable of hauling eight passengers in DVD-watching comfort, I don’t want to notice rapid DSG-like shifts. Having now spent plenty of time in the 2018 Honda Odyssey Touring, I too can say with great certainty that this 10-speed automatic does exactly what it’s supposed to do: make itself invisible. “I don’t know,” she said, never being one to miss a chance to point out a flubbed shift in our own Odyssey. Cain, who this week took over some of the 2018 Odyssey’s testing duties given her role as the primary 2015 Odyssey driver in our family. I asked the gentlemen who dropped the Odyssey off in my driveway. I read other reviews criticism of the 10-speed was essentially nonexistent. I asked Chris Tonn for his opinion while he was driving the new Odyssey in Hawaii he had nothing bad to say. Maybe it’s exceptional.)īut expectations for the Odyssey’s 10-speed transmission were low, not just because it sends 280 horsepower to the front wheels of a minivan, but also because the gear count is so high. (Full disclosure: I haven’t yet spent time with the Toyota Sienna’s new eight-speed automatic. And given the transmissions that have been utilized in minivans over the years, including the six-speed automatic in my own 2015 Honda Odyssey, improving upon past minivan transmissions isn’t a difficult task. The 2018 Honda Odyssey Touring’s 10-speed automatic transmission does not suck.Īdmittedly, “not sucking” sounds like a low bar. The 2018 Honda Odyssey Touring will be reviewed, by me, at some point in the near future.īut this part couldn’t wait.
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