![]() One of the reasons why there is the extensive use of the high-strength steels is to help provide occupant protection, which is particularly germane in the case of a minivan, especially one that senior product planner Dan Tiet describes as a minivan that is focused on people. They calculate that these measures result in a 55-percent reduction in body leaks, which means reduced cabin noise. The objective, of course, is to minimize noise entering the cabin. Speaking of assembly-the vehicle is produced at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama in the city of Lincoln-there is a first for the Odyssey being performed in the plant: acoustic spray foam is being shot into 14 locations (e.g., bases of the A-, B-, C-, and D-pillars, tops of the C- and D-pillars, base of the windshield frame) and acoustic tape and foam stoppers are being deployed this is being done while the vehicle is still a body-in-white. He cites a simple case of where the types of vehicles call for a rather massive modification: “On an SUV the side frame section is continuous, but we have a sliding door with a rail.” (Honda switched from those swinging doors on the first generation to dual sliders on the second-1999 to 2004.)Īnd as welding has been noted, it should be pointed out that in assembly there are 147.6-feet of structural adhesives (applied at the roof edges, around the moonroof opening, in the front floor and cowl area, in the A- and B-pillars, around the front suspension upper mounts, and elsewhere) applied prior to welding this helps increase the overall stiffness of the body structure by some 3.5 percent. Harrison explains that the Odyssey isn’t simply a minivan shell placed on top of the SUV structure, but that it shares the same ideas and approach used on the SUVs, such as how the loads are transferred for crash energy management. ![]() From the MDX it was then used for the Honda Pilot, then the Honda Ridgeline. The new Odyssey is based on the company’s light-truck platform that was first deployed for the third generation (the current) Acura MDX. “I’ve been focused on the Odyssey for five-plus years,” he says. He worked on the refresh for the fourth generation vehicle (2011-’17). The large project leader-or chief engineer-for the 2018 Honda Odyssey, the fifth generation of the vehicle, is Chad Harrison (the first, 1995-’98, was based on the Accord platform, and like an Accord sedan, had four swinging doors). But it is really designed to carry people. The 2018 Odyssey has a 48.6-inch tailgate opening and fold-flat seats. Once it seemed as though a defining metric of whether something was truly a minivan was whether it could handle a 4 x 8-foot sheet of plywood.
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