2018 Honda Odyssey: Car Seat Check

CARS.COM — Honda’s people mover got more people-friendly for 2018. The redesigned Odyssey wears new styling and gets a new multimedia system, as well as a host of family-friendly convenience features.

What hasn’t changed is its status as car seat king. With five sets of Latch anchors and oodles of room, big families should check out the new Odyssey. For this Car Seat Check, we tested an eight-passenger model with a three-position second row, and it fit three car seats across. Removing the second row’s center seat leaves two captain’s chairs and enables the Magic Slide system, which allows the captain’s chairs to slide both forward and back and side to side.

How many car seats fit in the second row? Three

How many car seats fit in the third row? Two

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Grading Scale

A: Plenty of room for the car seat and the child; doesn’t impact driver or front-passenger legroom. Easy to find and connect to Latch and tether anchors. No fit issues involving head restraint or seat contouring. Easy access to the third row.  

B: Plenty of room. One fit or connection issue. Some problems accessing third row when available.

C: Marginal room. Two fit or connection issues. Difficult to access third row when available.

D: Insufficient room. Two or more fit or connection issues.

F: Does not fit or is unsafe.

About Cars.com’s Car Seat Checks

Editors Jennifer Geiger, Jennifer Newman and Matt Schmitz are certified child safety seat installation technicians.

For the Car Seat Check, we use a Graco SnugRide Classic Connect 30 infant-safety seat, a Britax Marathon convertible seat and Graco TurboBooster seat. The front seats are adjusted for a 6-foot driver and a shorter passenger. The three child seats are installed in the second row. The booster seat sits behind the driver’s seat, and the infant and convertible seats are installed behind the front passenger seat.

We also install the forward-facing convertible in the second row’s middle seat with the booster and infant seat in the outboard seats to see if three car seats will fit; a child sitting in the booster seat must be able to reach the seat belt buckle. If there’s a third row, we install the booster seat and a forward-facing convertible. Learn more about how we conduct our Car Seat Checks.

Parents should also remember that they can use the Latch system or a seat belt to install a car seat, and that Latch anchors have a weight limit of 65 pounds, including the weight of the child and the weight of the seat itself.