{"id":35620,"date":"2026-01-29T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35620"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:40:24","slug":"payne-get-the-griswolds-a-honda-pilot-road-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/payne-get-the-griswolds-a-honda-pilot-road-warrior","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Get the Griswolds a Honda Pilot road-warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>San Diego<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Honda makes sensational hot hatches for gearheads with the ferocious, corner-carving Civic Type R at the front of the parade<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Honda Pilot is not that car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The three-row SUV is Honda&#8217;s band leader for a different hatchback parade: ergonomically brilliant hatchback for families. If the driver-centric Civic Type R is built for adrenaline-pumping short sprints, Pilot is made for the long haul \u2014 a rolling living room for 4-7 passengers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/28\/PDTN\/88386433007-honda-pilot-fr-34-beach.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2026 Honda Pilot has gained a more rugged, truck-like look to conform with market fashion. But it's still a relative wallflower on a San Diego beach compared to, say, a Hyundai Santa Fe or Chevy Traverse.\" width=\"554\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The 2026 Honda Pilot has gained a more rugged, truck-like look to conform with market fashion. But it&#8217;s still a relative wallflower on a San Diego beach compared to, say, a Hyundai Santa Fe or Chevy Traverse.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/01\/28\/payne-get-the-griswolds-a-honda-pilot-road-warrior\/88374267007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego\u00a0\u2014 Honda makes sensational hot hatches for gearheads with the ferocious, corner-carving Civic Type R at the front of the parade The Honda Pilot is not that car. The three-row SUV is Honda&#8217;s band leader for a different hatchback parade: ergonomically brilliant hatchback for families. If the driver-centric Civic Type R is built for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35621,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35620\/revisions\/35621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}