It has been expected that Honda will bring the PILOT, which competes with the Highlander in the North American market, to the Chinese market, but Honda has a special idea. Based on the Honda Concept D concept car unveiled at the 2015 Shanghai Motor Show, the Honda Guandao is the latest midsize SUV in Honda's lineup, which first debuted in China and then exported to the Americas.
 
Although it is not available in a very practical seven-seater version, the sporty fastback styling, the powertrain of the 2.0T 9AT, the luxurious interior, and the highest level of equipment in the Honda series are very attractive. However, the 9-speed ZF gearbox of the Honda Crown Road 2.0T is puzzling, and it can certainly play a space-saving role, helping Honda turn gear shifting into a push-button type, and also saving a lot of storage space, but this car can only be in ninth gear for about 2% of the driving career, and the gear ratio and smoothness performance of its usual gears are not as good as Honda's own 8AT gearbox on the Spirion and Acura CDX.
 
At present, Honda's 1.5T Earth Dream engine is also installed on this car, Honda's tuning skills for the engine are really amazing, CDX, Civic, Jed, and Guandao are all using the same 1.5T engine, but the actual effect is obviously different. On the 1.5T version, Honda once again enabled its own CVT gearbox, although it lost the sense of science and technology full of button shifting, but the fuel consumption and low-speed driving smoothness performance have been improved, the crown road on this 1.5T as a "small horse-drawn car" collocation, the ride is no loopholes, and the power is still strong, 0-100km acceleration performance is stronger than Highlander, Edge and other 2.0T models, with the smallest displacement in the same class can run out of the forefront of the acceleration results.
 
Honda's comfort and quietness have been significantly improved since the tenth generation, and the crown road body has completely devoid of Honda's hard suspension, and the sound insulation and shock absorption have also reached a new height.
 
The interior workmanship and configuration of the crown road are completely at the level of luxury cars, its 8-inch central control screen even provides 5 adjustable angles, the screen rises the moment the power is turned on, and the sense of science and technology is full, the interior feeling of this car is definitely overstepping, compared to Highlander, it also seems too simple.
 
The most powerful thing about the crown road is the space performance, its rear space is spacious enough to place a small table in the middle of the rear row for the co-pilot and rear passengers to play cards. However, for people with short legs, this rear row is a bit too empty, if the rear seats are adjustable front and rear, it can obviously lend more space to the trunk, but this small improvement is the most good at doing space magic Honda did not do it, and even the rear backrest angle of the crown road is also unadjustable, which is really a bit unforgivable, with its space could have allowed the rear passengers to sleep semi-reclining.
 
Honda has a good reputation for quality, and its Accord, CR-V, Civic, and Fit are all models that can be called quality myths. In JD Power's (China) 2015 annual survey of 100 new cars, Guangqi Honda had 95 times, with an industry average of 108 times, 87 times in 2014, an industry average of 110 times, and 104 times in 2013, with an industry average of 119 times. However, given that the Crown Road is a new car after all, and it doesn't use Honda's own transmission, we still can't give it too high a reliability score, and it remains to be seen how it performs in the future.
 
In terms of safety equipment, the Elite Edition, like the top-of-the-line model, also has safety features such as adaptive vibration isolation, brake priority, vehicle stability control, agile handling assistance, and traction control. Honda's safety performance has always been excellent, but the crown road has not yet participated in foreign crash tests, and since it is a model that will be launched in the American market, we are cautiously optimistic about the safety of the crown road, and wait for the authoritative test results to make changes.