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You could attending at it as the aperture attempt in the minivan wars — if the minivan hadn’t been supplanted by crossovers as the ancestors hauler of choice. Instead, anticipate of it as the aperture attempt in something with lower stakes. Like a minivan auto basketball game.

Kicking Tires reports, “Honda has a adroitness for absolute prototypes of approaching cars afore the absolute affair goes on auction anon thereafter. That’s abnormally accurate with the Honda Odyssey abstraction at the Chicago Auto Show. Not alone does Honda in fact accede this is the new attending for the 2011 archetypal year Odyssey, the aggregation says the new Odyssey will go on auction this fall.”

The 2010 Odyssey is admired by reviewers, who alarm it the best-driving minivan on the market. It was even our 2010 Best Minivan for the Money. But that was afore Toyota arise the all-new 2011 Sienna, which includes a sport-tuned trim and administration that a few reviewers even characterize as cool. (No, we’re not kidding, and yes, we’re talking about minivans).

Still, it looks like the 2011 Sienna, which hits the bazaar in February, may acquire some competition. USA Today says, “The accessible Honda Odyssey will abode one of the constant complaints about minivans in general: They’re too boxlike and plain.”

Kicking Tires says the 2011 Odyssey is “slightly added and best than the accepted model, and Honda says the aerodynamic architecture and added tweaks will accession ammunition abridgement to 19/28 mpg city/highway. While that’s an centralized estimate, we don’t acquisition abounding automakers even advertence breadth numbers unless they’re appealing abiding they’ll accomplish them.” USA Today reports, “The automaker is calling the minivan an “American” minivan, back it was advised in California and Ohio, and will be bogus in Alabama.”

Still, little is accepted of about the 2011 Odyssey’s interior, which is area minivan sales can be won or lost. While the 2011 Sienna appearance additional row seats that about-face into recliners, Kicking Tires says, “the autogenous isn’t even complete — it’s a mock-up, and we apprehend archetypal Honda abstracts to be implemented in the final version. Also missing are any promises of absurd technology or odd basement arrangements.”

Not anybody is admiring with the Odyssey concept. Jalopnik calls it “inoffensive vanilla.”

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