Functional and practical, that’s what the 2015 Honda Pilot is all about as a sports utility vehicle. It’s a bit small for a mini-van but it is nonetheless larger than the average SUVs of today.
It is a family car no doubt and it is everything that a family SUV should be. It has space for conveniently seating eight passengers including the driver and it still has plenty of room for cargo and personal belongings too.
With its truck-like and boxy features, the 2015 Honda Pilot is the ultimate family SUV that exudes both functionality and practicality. Its robust stance is also deceptive as the 2015 Pilot actually drives and runs like a car and nothing like a truck.
The 2015 Honda Pilot provides both its driver and passengers comfortable and engaging driving and riding experience with some compromises in convenience too.
The 2015 Honda Pilot comes in 10 different variants and these are the 2WD LX, the 4WD LX, the 2WD EX, the 2WD SE, the 4WD EX, the 4WD SE, the 2WD EX-L, the 4WD EX-L, the 2WD Touring, and the 4WD Touring.
Looking closely at all these 2015 Honda Pilot models, the trim levels can actually be distinguish on whether the vehicle is running on a two-wheel (front-wheel) drive or the all-wheel (four-wheel) drive.
The 2015 Honda Pilot is powered by a 24-valve V6 SOHC i-VTEC engine so the family SUV has immense power under its hood and not just from its exterior appearance. Further highlighting that power is its maximum torque of 253 pound – foot at 4,800 rpm and maximum pull of 250 horsepower at 5,700 rpm.
Exceptional safety features
The family SUV is tough as well as it’s durable. With Honda’s level of safety, it boasts of exceptional safety features for its occupants, making it one of the safest family SUVs in its class today.
The Japanese carmaker has spared no effort in ensuring that the 2015 Honda Pilot exudes the highest level of safety both for its occupants as well as the pedestrians outside in the event of a road mishap.
It has a rear view camera, an advanced compatibility engineering body structure, anti-lock braking system with electronic brake distribution, active head restraints, dual-stage multiple threshold front airbags, front side airbags with passenger-side position detection system, side curtain airbags and rollover sensor, tire pressure monitoring system, and vehicle stability assist with traction control.
Roomy interiors
Given its size, the most salient functionality advantage of the 2015 Honda Pilot is its roomy interiors that it can comfortably seat eight passengers with more leg room, head room, and elbow room, for everyone.
The vehicle is too spacious that it can actually fit more than 10 people if the driver so wishes but with some sacrifices in the convenience of every one naturally. What’s more, the Honda Pilot has 87 cubic feet of cargo space. That’s a whole lot without even doing anything.
In addition to enough room for passengers, the 2015 Honda Pilot still has room for cargo. The cargo space is also very flexible too since the family SUV also features a 60/40 split, flat-folding second- and third-row seats allowing for numerous configurations of cargo and seating arrangements.