Honda Odyssey (international)

Honda Odyssey
Fifth-generation Honda Odyssey second facelift
Overview
Manufacturer	Honda
Production	1994–present
Body and chassis
Class	Minivan
Body style	5-door station wagon (1994–2013) 5-door minivan (2013–present)
Layout	Front-engine, front-wheel-drive Front-engine, four-wheel-drive

The Honda Odyssey (Japanese: ホンダ・オデッセイ, Hepburn: Honda Odessei) is a minivan manufactured by Japanese automaker Honda since 1994, marketed in most of the world and currently in its fifth-generation.

The Odyssey had originally been conceived and engineered in Japan, in the wake of the country's economic crisis of the 1990s, which in turn imposed severe constraints on the vehicle's size and overall concept, dictating the minivan's manufacture in an existing facility with minimal modification.^[1] The result was a smaller minivan, in the compact MPV class, that was well received in the Japanese domestic market^[1] but less well received in North America.^[2] The first generation Odyssey was marketed in Europe as the Honda Shuttle.

Subsequent generations diverged to reflect market variations, and Honda built a plant in Lincoln, Alabama, incorporating the ability to manufacture larger models.^[2] Since model year 1999, Honda has marketed a larger (large MPV-class) Odyssey in North America and a smaller Odyssey in Japan and other markets. Honda also offered the larger North American Odyssey in Japan as the Honda LaGreat between 1999 and 2004.