2026 Honda Pilot Goes Big On Screens, Bigger On The Grille

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Honda's been engaged preparing for the motorboat of nan caller Prelude, but that isn't nan only point it's been moving on. Now, there's besides a refreshed type of its three-row minivan alternative, the Pilot. And if you emotion large screens, past you're going to beryllium excited, because not only is nan driver show bigger, nan infotainment surface is, too. Okay, truthful that astir apt isn't nan champion income transportation connected Jalopnik, but thing tells america nan regular group who bargain these SUVs will admit it. 

Yes, while you were antecedently only capable to get a nine-inch surface successful nan Pilot, nan 2026 Pilot now comes modular pinch a 12.3-inch infotainment screen. Meanwhile, nan driver show has grown from 7 inches to 10.2 inches, and according to Honda, that intends those screens are now 37% larger and 43% larger, respectively. Odds are, prospective buyers will announcement nan bigger screens earlier they announcement nan tweaked beforehand extremity and its bigger grille, but it's still an charismatic update. Honda besides claims nan compartment is now quieter, and nan steering has been improved. Roof rails and a powerfulness liftgate are besides now standard, and successful summation to a caller metallic overgarment option, Honda now offers Smoke Blue Pearl arsenic standard, too.

Honda besides tweaked a fewer of nan trims, now offering nan Pilot Trailsport pinch heated rear seats, optional brownish leather pinch orangish stitching and Ash Green Metallic paint. Meanwhile, nan Pilot Touring now gets a surround-view camera system, nicer materials, and caller machine-finished Shark Gray 20-inch alloy wheels. The Pilot Elite gets those aforesaid 20-inch alloy wheels, arsenic good arsenic faux-suede spot accents pinch gem stitching, and nan Pilot Black Edition tin now beryllium had pinch Berlina Black 20-inch alloy wheels.

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According to Honda, nan tweaks it made to nan exterior make nan 2026 Pilot "even much aspirational and adventure-ready." And it's true, nan grille is bigger than before. Whether that signals aspiration successful 2026, I don't really know, but it is worthy noting that even Audi seems to beryllium moving distant from elephantine grilles. Plus, if you outpouring for nan Trailsport model, you get caller scuff plates astatine some nan beforehand and nan backmost pinch "a robust off-road fresh style" that "highlight nan further off-road capacity of nan Pilot TrailSport." 

Inside, Honda says it upgraded a batch of nan materials, though you whitethorn not announcement them astatine first, moreover if you spot 1 of nan Pilots equipped pinch nan caller brownish leather interior. That's because Honda says it added semi-tempered doorway glass, doorway insulators, a caller hood insulator and immoderate different sound-absorbing tech to trim engine, roadworthy and upwind noise. Higher-end trims besides adhd enclosed fender liners to trim roadworthy sound moreover further. 

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Is it a awesome refresh? Not really. Did we get nan Honda Pilot Hybrid you mightiness person been hoping for? Nope. Is Honda talking pricing yet? Also no. But it had amended merchandise that accusation soon, because according to nan release, these refreshed '26 Pilots are group to deed trader tons adjacent month. And let's besides not miss nan truth that while 1 of nan caller disposable colors is conscionable a silver, nan different 2 are existent colors. I'm surely ne'er going to kick astir being capable to bargain a car pinch bluish aliases greenish paint, and you shouldn't, either. Not that there's overmuch logic to pay that overmuch attraction to nan Pilot if you aren't a genitor pinch aggregate kids you request a measurement to haul around. But hey, that could beryllium you soon. You ne'er know.