The New 2011 Honda Odyssey Earns Historic Safety Milestone – Criswell Honda, MD Honda Dealer

April 13, 2011 - PRLog -- The 2011 Honda Odyssey becomes the first and only minivan ever to earn the highest possible safety ratings from BOTH the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety AND the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The 2011 Odyssey has passed under their respective more-stringent testing guidelines!

The record-breaking Honda Odyssey was recently recognized as a 2011 Top Safety Pick from IIHS. The Top Safety Pick is the institute’s highest honor! This award recognizes vehicles that provide the best job of protecting passengers in front, side and rear crashes as well as rollover performance based on ratings in IIHS tests and a standard electronic stability control system.

As a result, the new 2011 Odyssey scored the highest-possible score of GOOD in all four ratings, including the roof-strength test.

Not only did the Odyssey score the Top Safety Pick, it also breaks record in becoming the first vehicles to achieve NHTSA’s best-possible “Overall Vehicle Score” of five stars!

The Overall Vehicle Score is a new award that has been recently introduced as part of the federal government’s New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). The Overall Vehicles Score is first being applied to 2011 models.

The 2011 Honda Odyssey is uniquely designed with Advanced Compatibility Engineering (ACE) body structure. Advanced Compatibility Engineering is an exclusive body design that improves occupant protection and crash compatibility in frontal crashes. The enhanced frontal crash energy management assists in reducing the forces transferred to the passenger compartment.

The New Honda Odyssey is equipped with a powerful and efficient 3.5-liter i-VTEC V-6 engine that features Variable Cylinder Management. The 3.5-liter delivers horsepower of 248 and 250lb-ft of Torque.

Certain models of the 2011 Honda Odyssey include new technology features such as a rear entertainment system with a 16.2-inch ultrawide split-screen display as well as an auxiliary High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) video input. An “intelligent” Multi-Information Display (i-MID) with customizable wallpaper and integration of FM traffic data on navigation models are also available along with other useful features.

Perfectly designed and engineered for everyone, the all-new 2011 Honda Odyssey is in stock and available for purchase at Criswell Honda Dealer! Criswell Honda is located at 19525 Amaranth Dr Germantown, MD 20874.

Visit Criswell Honda at http://www.criswellhonda.net for more details!




source: Honda

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