Japanese automaker Honda is refreshing its Pilot and Ridgeline models for 2012. The 2012 Honda Pilot and 2012 Honda Ridgeline models comes with Various updates including the refined look and interior updates. The new Ridgeline Sport model comes with exclusive black 18-inch alloy wheels, exclusive black honeycomb grille, standard fog lights, black headlight housings and brake light, and black mirrors and door handles.
To keep shoppers interested, though, Honda's making some tweaks for 2012 Honda Pilot , and our spy shooters have caught one of the face-lifted Pilots running around. Mechanically, the alterations to the Pilot Will Likely be most evolutionary. Honda has been upgrading most of its models' five-speed automatic transmissions with six-ratio units; you can expect the pilots to join the six-speed in-crowd. We expect Honda to unveil the face-lifted Pilot sometime this fall, either at November's Los Angeles auto show or at a less-full-of-Fanfare venue.
The 2012 Honda Pilot achieves just that. In the crossover world, the Pilot is one of the Few That current offerings still resembles a sport / utility vehicle. The Pilot's 3.5-liter, 250-horsepower engine uses Variable Cylinder Management, Honda's cylinder shutoff technology, providing fuel economy of 16 mpg city/22 highway. Our tester Pilot CAME with the company's topline Technology group, and the cabin Had Such features as the nav, rear DVD system, full leather interior, and the company's best AM / FM / CD / XM audio system.