Fitting for its homeric namesake, it's been a long and difficult road for the Honda Odyssey. Minivans in general watched their glorious market share shrivel as crossovers stormed the scene, took everyone's lunch money, and reorganized the place—ironically, the same thing the Dodge Caravan, Plymouth Voyager, and Chrysler Town and Country did to the American market in 1983. The Odyssey is one of the survivors now, part of a dwindling herd that's scrapping for survival.
America does trucks. Europe does hatchbacks. And Japan? Japan does minivans. You'd be forgiven for not remembering—outside the Toyota Sienna, Honda Odyssey, and Nissan Quest, the Japanese marques have a long tradition of selling small people-movers in Asia and beyond. They've even got a whole class of uber-luxury minivans like the Nissan Elgrand and the Toyota Alphard, not to mention the off-road buddies like the Mitsubishi Delica. Point being, they know their vans in the Land of the Rising Sun.
All that know-how trickled down into the 2019 Honda Odyssey, just in time for minivans to experience a bit of a resurgence in certain corners of the American res publica. This isn't #vanlife—no, it's a recognition that, in a time where everything is huge and excessive and built around delivering the most, the minivan is actually a humble, likable thing, a car that doesn't need to shout about its cargo space or expansive third row because it's always had them. And fresh off a 2018 redesign, the Odyssey gets it done. Unless you need all-wheel-drive.
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