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The Honda Odyssey, the above standout and industry wonder, is now 27 years and stagnant. But it’s not the minivan’s fault.

Sales of action account vehicles, crossovers and auto trucks abide to increase, assertive the industry. Minivans’ success, like the fate of sedans, accept floundered.

In 1996, a year afterwards it debuted in the United States, the Odyssey had its best sales year, aloof shy of 178,000. In 2109, the able ancestors hauler, which has the aforementioned top acceptability as the blow of the Honda lineup, fell to 99,000. It was the minivan’s aboriginal sales year beneath the six-figure plateau.

Last year, in the business angst of the coronavirus, Odyssey sales fell addition 16 percent to 83,000, about 47 percent of its top year.

The 2021 Odyssey, with notable upgrades in the fourth year of its fifth-generation, doesn’t deserve the model’s sales doldrums. Despite its strictly-by-the-numbers, out-to-pasture status, the Odyssey charcoal as able as it was in its 1995 debut.

At atomic the Odyssey is still with us. Added than a dozen minivans in the able 15 years, the Buick Terraza to the Saturn Relay, the Chrysler Voyager to the Nissan Quest, are defunct.

The 2021 Honda Odyssey is offered in LX, EX, EX-L, Elite and Touring trims. Pricing begins at about $32,000. With aggregate accessible included in the top-line offering, the amount approaches $50,000. It’s about $10,000 added than the boilerplate amount of a new car in the United States.

All Odyssey models accept 3.5-liter V-6 engines with with 280 horsepower and 10-