We test drove the 2016 Honda Pilot EX-L, and loved it.
Bought it.
Picked it up Thursday.
Friday we loaded 5 adult humans, 4 collapsible lawn chairs, and Apollo into it and headed off to the dog show for the morning. Apollo still had room to lay down. Yup, this’ll do exactly what we wanted and more! I was sitting in the smaller of the 3rd row seats. There was enough room, though a longer drive would have left me a bit cramped.
We really wanted one in one of the blue shades they’re offering. The one that Husband looked at briefly on Saturday was blue and he loved the color. But when we came back Tuesday for the test drive the blue was gone, and all they had was a black and a couple white ones. We didn’t want white. They did a quick search for us but none of the dealerships in the surrounding areas had any blue ones either, and we didn’t want to wait for one to come off the line, so we bought the black one with the black interior. More than we wanted to spend, especially once taxes etc had been added on. But not as bad as it could have been. Plus they gave us more for Husband’s old Nissan than we’d been afraid they would.
My Caliber is a bit closer to the camera, screwing with the perspective, but you can still see the size of the Pilot there. We put a good 200 miles on it this week, between all the back and forth, and the dog show, and then running Arty up to a Barn Hunt practice. Averaging 24mpg for those 200, considering that a good portion of that was on city streets I’ll take it.
Awesome!
Very!
Nice – glad you found one that does what you need/want and you like too. And the MPG’s are quite good (Jealous!)
The price hurt, we’d really wanted to keep it lower than that. But I think in the end we’re happier. Certainly the gas milage alone is probably worth it!