http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/ Autoblog Comments for Crash Landing: 2009 Honda Pilot design deemed boring http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/
Chairman - Okay designers, our sales are dropping and design has been hohum and boring. What do we do with the square design?

Designers - Uh, let's make it even more square and boring?

Chairman - DO IT !!!!]]>Jan 29th 2008 8:30AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 9:10AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/thats kind of who honda is.. at least my impressions.
i think that poll would have worked if you subbed in almost any honda member of the fleet. even the accord's kind of flashy, but i could also see some people calling it boring.
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its not enough of a change to call it evolutionary. other than stealing the back hatch design from the pathfinder (the little dents at the taillights) and coming up with a bizarro front end, there is nothing here to note.
what a waste of energy

If that is truly the new interior, then that's sweet but I'm guessing that center console is just showroom.]]>Jan 29th 2008 8:38AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 8:46AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/
The thing that has Honda worried is that the Pilot they showed is not some styling exercise, that is the production car. I'm sure the headlights will change a bit, and the seats won't be covered in contrasting leather, this is Honda after all, but most of what you see is what will be rolling off of the assembly line in the near future.]]>Jan 29th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 9:27AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 8:50AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!

Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero!]]>Jan 29th 2008 9:12AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/
The problem with the Pilot is the same one that a lot of the 7-Seat SUV/Crossovers are going to run into: the market for cars like these are going to go away as gas prices go up and the SUV fad dies down. It's very hard for a supposedly practical consumer to walk into a Honda showroom and pick the cramped, yet thirstier Pilot over the Oddyssey. ]]>Jan 29th 2008 9:32AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/Jan 29th 2008 10:05AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/
]]>Jan 29th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/It looks bigger that the last generation Pilot, does that mean it will burn more Gas!!!!Honda is getting further away from its roots of building small fuel efficent cars.]]>Jan 29th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/
The problem is that Honda is a small company, and they really don't have the resources to hit all the targets. It refreshing to see that they get the ones that matter right, but you can see that, occasionally, they flub things like design, marketing, or, heck most of Acura's product planning.]]>Jan 29th 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/crash-landing-2009-honda-pilot-design-deemed-boring/
I also don't like how the sides front and rear bumpers are blended with the quarter panels. I know they're going for more of a crossover look, vs SUV look, but personally I much prefer the styling of the current model's wrap-around bumper ends, along with the matching bulge along the lower half of the doors.]]>Jan 29th 2008 10:44AM