<![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> @my favorite car is a motorcycle: Holy mother of conspiracies.. you're RIGHT!! Good call on the HDMI grill.

Next up... "Blu-ray" headlights!!! (the housings are kind of... blu)

avconsumer

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> Oooh, Honda's jumped on the latest electronics fad. With that big HDMI port for a grille, the new Pilot offers High Definition.

... unfortunately to me, this thing looks like an antiquated black & white TV. I can't stand to look at it!

my favorite car is a motorcycle

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> There is an easy way to clean up the mess that is the production model. Push the front wheel forward (until the wheel arch touches the where the bumper fades into the fender then lengthen the front doors (thus making the rear ones narrower). Voila.

redmarquis

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> the sketch actually looks great.. shame

stevecmh

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> So...you can make a Pilot look even boringer.

jdpepper

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> I thought I was the only freak who thought it was very untrueful(?)loyal(?)to the sketches

The-Simpsons-Rule!!

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> Hilarious...

Yeah... Honda including doorhandles kills it for me. LOL.

petersterncan

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> .. wow - someone was bored doing this comparo; nothing new here imo.

suzq044

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> Everything today looks like morphed roadkill. Maybe I'll live long enough to see aerodynamics come back in fashion.

smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> @athodyd: never gonna happen. we're actually making the window slits smaller b/c of advances like cameras and such. it's all for the sporty, wide-track, aerodynamic look. it's kinda a disease designers have. we'll call it LOwerWiderSquatter Syndrome, or LOWS for you acronym-lovers.

mikedrawcar

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> My dad drives a 1st generation Pilot, and it's a great "truck," or as he likes to call it, "Man-van." Unfortunately, these things are getting uglier and uglier with each coming iteration, and it wasn't that pretty to begin with.

Unevolved

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> When I saw the concept sketch I said "go Honda!" now that I see the wonky prodctin version I say "no really, go Honda."

Picarso

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> @FreeMan: Yeah, I would honestly sort of prefer big dorky greenhouses to come back to cars again. Driving the last couple of cars I've rented has felt like squinting at everything on the road. When I get back to my old Toyota it feels like I'm driving some sort of enchanted soap bubble.

athodyd

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> But, she's got a great personality...

Gearhead's Garage

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> Isuzu Trooper from the A-Pillar back. They thoughtfully added the new Explorer's grille to the nose.

sliderule

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> Seeing this makes me realize why my sister bought a Grand Cherokee instead of an Odessey - I mean what is this thing called a Pilot.

BLS

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> Ehh, It could be worse, have you seen the Acura version of this thing? Kee-rist, WTF, Don't Go There, TMI.

It's one fuggly station wagon.

And yes, that's what these things are; station wagons.

graverobber- My Yugo Nova!

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> @contender: Exactly. Welcome back, Uplander Relay thing.

brandegee

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> I'll never forget when I was working at a Honda dealer and the '96 Civic was coming out. Honda released a sketch of the hatchback at a dealer meeting that looked really agressive and there was some great feedback from the dealers about it. Back then, there wasn't much internet and almost zero spy photos, so when the thing arrived everyone was seeing it for the first time. It was so disappointing when that hideous fucker rolled off the truck. It wasn't even close to the sketch and back then the headlights totally put everyone off.

mutedthud

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> The thing went from a Grand Cherokee ripoff to a Nitro crossed with a GM minivan. Fun.

contender is a high performance machine, so he had to be filled with premium

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> @Mark: [www.carbodydesign.com]

Mark Arnold

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> 4. Haven't you been grilling the 300M & H2 for their gun-slit windows, now you bustin' Honda's chops for not having them? Mind up your make.

FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> She says she likes adventures in the wild, but I bet if you took her there, she'd be too afraid to get muddy. What a tease.

DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> Early sketches of the previous generation Malibu vs the actual model were very deceptive too. However, the Pilot one takes the cake for completely misleading people on the look of the production model. There's nothing really in common between the two.

usa1

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> @Bento: haha nice one

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> First, here's the cool thing the stylists dreamed up and wanted to build...and over here is what the bean counters and marketing men finally decided to let us build.

Tanshanomi

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> Honda Pilot, You look NOTHING like your MySpace Picture, either!

Mysterious Utility Bento

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Honda Pilot Sketch Versus Reality]]> I think the worst case of this was the Ferrari 612. It looks amazing in the sketches and awful in reality.

Mark Arnold

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