Faults:

Not too much.

The passenger side door whistles a bit at speeds over 50.

The front door speakers are occasionally overwhelmed when the song has a lot of base.

The heat shields are falling off the exhaust - making a lot of racket as they go - very irritating. I took it to the Honda dealer and they said, "$897 will fix you right up!" What? So that I can pay to have new ones put on in another 50,000 miles? You've got to be kidding? Seems that the 8 year/80,000 mile emissions warranty does cover the converters, but not the heat shields (around the converters) that would prevent your car from going up in flames...

General Comments:

Low and wide as compared to a T&C or Caravan. A good highway car from 70-90 mph. Down on power. Chrysler vans have more grunt right off the bottom of the rev band. The Honda seems heavy and the 3.5L a bit over burdened. The Honda, does not however, embarrass itself going around corners (like the tippy Chrysler products).

Faults:

We do mainly long distance hi-way driving 12 hours at a time. No problems except for that same front end vibration upon quick braking. (same as my last 2003 Odyssey). In the 2003 I replaced the front rotors with drilled rotors, and the problem was permanently eliminated.

General Comments:

Great car, but the 2003 offered extendable sun visor and more user friendly wiper control, and a "real" padded dash and seats, not this plastic "stuff".

Great travel vehicle. Unfortunately the larger tires give this newer model a sloppier suspension. I recommend upgrading to 18" wheels and lower profile tires.

Faults:

Haven't been able to solve an alignment issue. Pulls left, crooked steering wheel. Original dealer told me to find different dealer to service the problem.

General Comments:

Comfortable, roomy, powerful with 25 mpg. But with a serious lack of initiative to fix my alignment from dealer, I will be going back to Toyota very soon.

Faults:

No issues as of yet.

General Comments:

We loved our 2005 Odyssey EX-L so much that when my sister needed a mini-van, we sold her ours with 60k and purchased a new 2008 Odyssey EX-L but got the DVD and Navi this time around. The 05 needed tires at 45k and brakes at 55k. If you do highway driving the VCM does give you good mpg.

Just like in 2005 we test drove all the cars in class, and ended up with the Odyssey for the same reasons: safety, build quality, resale value, looks, handling, $/features were the big ones. This time though we got the $1000 dealer cash +.9% for 36 months.

The 08 has better looking wheels, updated front bumper/hood and rear lights, you get a power passenger front seat, leather steering wheel, digital second row climate control, 2 cup holders and storage in the 8th seat; daytime running lights. The paint on the rubber bumpers seems to match better than the 2005 we had. The plastic piece behind the rear license plate was removed from 2005. The 3rd row seats have cloth on the back vs the leather on the 2005. The foot pads that on the 3rd row seat are all plastic vs the 2005 that had cloth inserts.

Get the Navi, the voice controlled navigation/radio/climate control is amazing.

Our only complaint is not having memory seats available in the EX-L and almost pushed into the touring.