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2009 Honda Pilot Earns Highest Possible Safety Ratings
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The 2009 Honda Pilot earned a TOP SAFETY PICK from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), as well as a perfect five-star rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for its frontal and side impact performance.
In getting to the Top Safety Pick rating, the IIHS gave the Pilot "good" ratings for frontal offset, side impact, and rear crash protection tests. It also sports standard stability control.
John Mendel, senior vice president of American Honda, is proud that Honda is "the only full-line automaker that has the highest possible frontal and side impact ratings for every light truck in our lineup." While impressive, one must realize that its five "light trucks" consist basically of two platforms: the Odyssey minivan that spawned the Pilot and Ridgeline, and the CR-V platform, which in its older iteration underpins the Element.
Honda touts its ACE (Advanced Compatibility Engineering) body structure as a major contributor to its vehicles' stellar safety ratings. ACE helps ensure occupant protection in frontal collisions between vehicles of different sizes, they say.--Colin Mathews
In getting to the Top Safety Pick rating, the IIHS gave the Pilot "good" ratings for frontal offset, side impact, and rear crash protection tests. It also sports standard stability control.
John Mendel, senior vice president of American Honda, is proud that Honda is "the only full-line automaker that has the highest possible frontal and side impact ratings for every light truck in our lineup." While impressive, one must realize that its five "light trucks" consist basically of two platforms: the Odyssey minivan that spawned the Pilot and Ridgeline, and the CR-V platform, which in its older iteration underpins the Element.
Honda touts its ACE (Advanced Compatibility Engineering) body structure as a major contributor to its vehicles' stellar safety ratings. ACE helps ensure occupant protection in frontal collisions between vehicles of different sizes, they say.--Colin Mathews
Responses (5 total)
By JKD | Posted: Sep 28th 2008, 02:31:25 AM
Just how exactly is the Oddyssey the king of minivans? I see Sienna beating it in pretty much every category and every mag.
By Ed | Posted: Sep 26th 2008, 12:44:09 PM
IF I drove a minivan, which I never had to, I SURE would drive the KING of Minivans, the Honda ODYSSEY.
My post was CRITICAL of the Pilot's UGLY GRILLE. I never said I'd be seen dead in a StupidUglyVehicle Automitive Atrocity. I drive DRIVER's CARS.
I am a BIG Honda fan in general, I drove an Accord coupe into the ground, I still drive a Civic hatch in my summer home, but my main drive is a "Magnificent 7" Bond-mpbile (see "Tomorrow Never Dies" Hamburg Bond Rental) Look-alike BMW 7 Series I bought for peanuts in 05.
And, JKD, do keep up. The PILOT was NEVER an SUV in the first place. It is a stupid CROSSOVER, ie an obese station wagon w 4 wh drive, BUT UNIBODY construction, NOT "Body on frame" like TRUE SUVS and Pickups are.
$4 and $5 gas, and probably $10 if idiots do not wise up, has driven most StupidUglyVehicles off the highways, and the US this year has a BIG drop in oil and gasoline consumption, and this will only intensify as the Fleet gets replaced with Efficient Compact and Midsize CARS taking the place of the DINOSAURS Breadvans on Stilts that can't HANDLE.
By Frank | Posted: Sep 25th 2008, 08:09:55 PM
Ed drives a Honda minivan.
By JKD | Posted: Sep 25th 2008, 07:14:01 PM
So what happened to your universal hatred of the SUVs? Honda's getting a pass?
By Ed | Posted: Sep 25th 2008, 07:05:50 PM
Great. Now if they only have not made it so weird-ugly up front (grille) and so BORING the rest of it.
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