2017 Honda Pilot Touring, 674 focuses

2017 Honda Pilot Touring, 674 focuses

The decision: The Pilot has the sort of lodge room and storage room families ache for, yet an ambivalent transmission and particular touchscreen framework keep it down as more up to date contenders increase current standards.

2017 Honda Pilot

Cars.com photograph by Christian Lantry

Our Test Vehicle

As-tried cost: $44,370

Motor, drive write: V-6, all-wheel drive

Generally unaltered since its 2016 win, the Pilot now incorporates Apple CarPlay and Android Auto cell phone network standard on every trim level aside from the base LX. Unfortunately, the nine-speed transmission scrutinized a year ago remains an issue. On the off chance that you need a higher trim level or higher evaluated productivity, you're screwed over thanks to it set up of the standard six-speed programmed.

What They Liked

Outward perceivability: "I believe I have great perceivability in this auto," Gorman said. The Cars.com judges concurred, rating the Pilot most elevated. Meier got out "the old-school wellbeing of enormous windows, and even an additional little triangle window in each front entryway where most others have a blind side."

Clamor levels: "It's calm," Gorman said. "I hear no breeze commotion at all." Our Pilot appraised best for quietness.

Inside quality: "The inside has an upscale look with a superb fit and complete," Meier said of our Pilot, which was granted the second-most focuses for inside quality.

Lodge stockpiling: Though our Pilot tied three courses with the Traverse and Atlas for in-lodge stockpiling focuses, judges got out "a gigantic canister in the inside comfort and different stockpiling regions in the entryways that give heaps of room to miscellaneous items," Hanley said. Wong noticed, "The compartment has a removable elastic liner that can be taken out and washed in the event of spills."

Payload receptacle: "The freight space behind the third column incorporates a wide, profound underfloor container with a covered cover that flips to offer a launderable surface or stows to make a greater, more profound load space," said Meier.

Raise excitement: "The main rival with a standard back amusement framework, and it offered enough info composes (Blu-beam, HDMI, RCA jacks) to play any cutting edge framework or motion picture," Wong said. "I likewise preferred the autonomous volume controls for each of the two remote earphones."

Controlled third-push access: "With the touch of a catch on either side of the Pilot, the second-push situate slides forward and tilts to oblige section to the third column," Wong said.

What They Didn't

Powertrain: Though it's apparently an overhaul showing up on higher Pilot trim levels, the discretionary nine-speed programmed transmission earned our Pilot Touring the most reduced powertrain rating. "Press the quickening agent from any point other than a dead stop and there's what feels like a moment or two of delay before it converts into included forward movement," Wong said. Hanley included, "It brings too long to kick down when you require more energy to pass." Meier called upshifts "neither brisk nor positive." In our experience, the standard six-speed transmission is vastly improved carried on.

Apparatus selector: The line of rigging selector catches "doesn't roll out it less demanding to improvement riggings and includes no additional storage room in the inside support," Hanley said. The judges were all the more tolerating of offbeat shifters that at any rate save space.

Touchscreen and interactive media: Rated superior to anything the Toyota however a decent separation behind the second-evaluated Traverse, our Pilot's "infuriating, menu-substantial media framework has modest touch-delicate controls that require your eyes to be off the street," Meier said. It has no volume or tuning handles. "At any rate it has Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, in light of the fact that notwithstanding those ... I do whatever it takes not to consider that," Wong included.

Third column: Though it again was in front of the Highlander for focuses, our Pilot's third line was a long ways behind the main rivals. "It has a great deal of headroom, however legroom is just sufficient," Wong stated, wishing the second column could slide forward more remote. "The back wheel wells interfere a great deal into the hip room," Meier included. "There's no real way to fit three typical estimated individuals back there, and it'd be a press notwithstanding for kids."