Do you wish your Honda Odyssey had AWD?
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Anonymous
| We are in the market for a minivan. I will be the primary, daily driver. I prefer the look of the Honda Odyssey, but it is not available with AWD (unlike the Toyota Sienna). How does your Odyssey handle in the snow/ice? I have AWD on even the small car I drive now so moving to a larger vehicle without AWD makes me a little nervous, but maybe I'm overemphasizing it. |
Anonymous
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Yes, terrible in snow and ice.
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Anonymous
| I drove a Subaru before my Honda Odyssey. I cannot believe how bad the Odyssey handles on snow and ice. I've gotten stuck many times, can't get up my driveway in very mild conditions. It's horrible. |
Anonymous
| Never missed it. |
Anonymous
Yes this. We test drove the Odyssey and went with the Sienna. Like you there was something I liked a little better about the Odyssey but my husband had drove a friend's Odyssey in the snow and skidded - he was adamant about having AWD on every car. |
Anonymous
| We went with the Sienna AWD. FYI - at least when we were buying, the Sienna AWD only comes with run flat tires because there is no room for a spare tire w/ AWD. Run flat tires are about $1k for all four and you go through them every 35k-40k in mileage. |
Anonymous
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I think of the Odyssey as the cooler of the two (for a minivan, so grading on a curve here). I think the new Odyssey is actually less attactive than the old one, or than the current Sienna.
In any case, we went for function and got a Sienna. It's fine. |
Anonymous
I love my Loser Cruiser. |
Anonymous
| Horrible in snow and ice, especially if it is just a thin snow coating on ground. |
Anonymous
OP here. I did not know this (we're just starting to look at the details of each). I have run flat tires on my current car, and I hate them! Not as much because they wear more quickly (I don't put a lot of mileage on my car), but because they are so much more susceptible to flats (I've had 4 flats in the last 2.5 years). Have you had any issue with frequent flats on your Sienna? I had so been looking forward to getting rid of those run flat tires... |
Anonymous
I have not had a problem with flats. |
Anonymous
| Another Sienna driver who has not had trouble with flats. |
Anonymous
| Odyssey horrible in ice or snow. Horrible. |
Anonymous
| I have an Odyssey and with the amount of snow we get here I haven't had any issues. I will say I have noticed some minor skidding when I brake in the rain at stop signs. |
Anonymous
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I thought I hated MV's - and I never thought I would say this - but I LOVE our Sienna!!!!!
OP, it's basically the same car as the Odyssey, why did you not choose AWD? Just curious. |