2025 Honda Odyssey: A Top-of-The-Pops Bear-a-Van
“The refreshed 2025 Honda Odyssey will get your family everywhere it needs to go in style and comfort,” according to U.S. News and World Report.
For Bears, that means plenty of room and plenty of the class that we as LGBTQIA++ earthlings have come to expect and enjoy. The ride is smooth and efficient, something not often said about minivans. Getting in-and-out is, of course, easy-breezy no matter how much man you are. (Sliding doors help, yes.)
Honda says the 2025 Odyssey can seat up to 8 people; let’s split the difference a say that 6 Bears can travel comfortably (all my Bear friends are on Ozempic or Jardiance so my gauge for girth and going places is a bit skewed as of late).
It also has a ‘Magic Slide’ system that allows the 2nd row seat to slide back and forth and even to the side, allowing for even greater access to cargo (up to 158 cubic feet possible) and cocktails and chips – or whatever you fancy to carry.
Larger touchscreens and instrument cluster panels are always welcome, as is a better entertainment screen / system for everyone in back. Also standard are a bunch of great safety features, such as forward collision warning, lane-departure warning, forward automatic braking (which can be, according to Edmunds.com, “overly vigilant”).
You may think that driving a minivan like the Odyssey will throw you out of the competition for Bear World’s Insta-Bear of the Week. That won’t happen, but if it does, let me know I will personally lobby the judges about your smart sense and style.
With the Odyssey, know upfront that this is no hybrid option nor the ability to get All-Wheel Drive. Other than that, it’s still a Top of The Pops for many when it comes to caravans.
With that, I feel that now is good time to chat about tariffs.
A tariff is simply a tax paid by the country that chooses to sell items in another country, like, say, the United States. But is that tax truly paid by the selling country? Hardly. That tax is ultimately paid by the consumer who buys the imported products, even when there are just a few electronics installed in, say, an American-made vehicle. The point of the increased price is to punish the selling country for trying to invade a market. Yet is it really punishment, especially if that product is needed? And who really suffers? Certainly not the idiots who imposed those tariffs in the first place.
It’s a fact: many people who voted from Trump did not know what a tariff is, so they were not concerned by it. Yet soon in the United States, everything will cost a lot more because everything (sans some arts and crafts) has a component from another country. The best guess is that almost half of all goods sold and used in the US currently come from Mexico, Canada and China, all of whom are or will be being punished with high tariffs.
Cars will be more expensive now; no automobile built on American soil is made completely with American parts. Your avocados and chocolate, for example, will go up in price as well. And once harvests are not able to be properly harvested due to a shortage of non-US citizen labor, your salads and more will see a price spike.
I will not (for the time being) be including the price of a car in my reviews. Those prices could spike horribly by the time I actually finish writing a review.
I will, however, keep you updated, though I think you will know before I do when you go shopping for your family. (Even snacks will increase in price because many of its shelf-life ingredients are produced outside the U.S.)
The road, especially the cost of living, just got much rougher.
