2005 Honda Element SUV Reviews - Edmunds.com
Honda is a company that does its homework and usually doesn't bring a product to market until it's fully developed and ready to make a serious dent in the competition's sales. All the vehicles in their lineup are desirable products that are well regarded and need little explanation. But drive a Honda Element, and you will likely be overwhelmed by questions by other motorists. What is it? Who makes it? Now in its third year, the Element is a compact SUV geared toward young and very active Generation-Y types who want an affordable vehicle that offers flexible cargo-hauling ability along with a sporty persona. The 2005 Honda Element is chock-full of features that make it easy to take the mountain bikes to the trailhead, the surfboard to the waves or the 27-inch TV to the dorm or apartment. The four-door Honda Element comes in three trim levels - DX, LX and EX. With the DX, you'll get power windows and locks, an easy-to-clean urethane utility floor, removable and folding rear seats, waterproof front seats and a driver-seat height adjuster. The LX adds power mirrors, cruise control, wheel covers, air conditioning and a CD player. The EX has all of these features plus alloy wheels, an additional cargo area-mounted power point, remote keyless entry, waterproof rear seats, front armrests and a 270-watt audio system.
2003 Honda Element - Automobile Magazine
Honda hopes its boxy Element sport-utility vehicle will attract the post-collegiate, pre-employed, high-spending Gen-Yers everybody's been courting for the last decade, buyers Honda feels are inadequately served by its current lineup. For all its uncharacteristic risk taking (new vehicle category, new development strategy, new engineering solutions), Honda has created another great Honda, featuring unexpected packaging, materials, and visuals. Even with so much effort focused on appealing to the young surfer dude, no one can predict who will buy this unconventional vehicle. The Element could hit its target audience squarely, or it could suffer the fate of many a "youth-oriented" car, such as the PT Cruiser, whose average buyer remembers Lawrence Welk with fondness. In the end, the marketplace decides who will drive what, not the marketer. One automotive oracle has predicted that the Element will replace the Subaru Forester as the car of choice for forty-five-year-old lesbians. Still, you can't blame Honda for trying.
2005 Honda Element EX Review
The Element isn't for cruising the highway at ungodly speeds. Rather, it's for loading up with all your gear and heading off the highway to camp, or mountain bike, or kayak, or hike, or whatever. The Element has tons of room to carry all your gear, too. Behind the rear seat is 25 cubic feet of cargo volume. The split rear seats fold to give you more cargo volume. And you can remove the rear seats (not an easy chore) to make the element a serious hauler.
2003 Honda Element Road Test
Honda has never really excelled with regard to audio systems. Some Honda products of past have offered nothing more than simple four speaker stereos that sound flat and tinny. With the Element, Honda knows its target market, and a sorry stereo is simply something those buyers will not tolerate. As a result, the audio system installed in the Element EX is quite nice and offers adjustable mid range, bass, treble and sub-woofer. This 270-watt system utilizes 7 speakers and offers clean, deep bass and brilliant highs. Around town, the Element lacks the truck-like ride that the shape and utility suggest. The suspension is surprisingly soft and there is a good deal of lean when cornering. This is not intended to be a sports car - with stiffer suspension, the Element would feel harsh and unrefined. On the open highway, the main complaint is wind noise. Vehicles that are shaped like a Postal Service truck tend to have a bit of wind noise and the Element is no exception. Also, on cement highways or rutted roads the ride can tend toward the jumpy side, but these are exceptions rather than the rule. Due to the tall roof and tons of side surface area, windy conditions can upset the Element's mostly compliant ride.
Motor Trend: Honda Element EX and Suzuki Aerio SX
Whatever you do, don't call the new Honda Element and Suzuki Aerio SX wagons. That unfortunate moniker conjures up images of Beaver Cleaver types pulling little red Radio Flyers on suburban paper routes. Or Nick at Night '60s visions of fake-wood-clad Galaxie Country Squires and Olds Vista Cruisers shuttling between the Dairy Queen and hometown split-levels. If you're getting twinges of deja-vu, that's to be understood. An invasion of Japanese high-roof wagons hit these shores two decades ago, with names like Nissan Stanza wagon, Toyota Tercel wagon (the ubiquitous 24-hour bank-teller machine on wheels), Honda Civic "tall boy" wagon, Dodge Colt Vista, and, later on, the Mitsubishi Expo and LRV. Even the original Honda Odyssey was a compact high-roof wagon of sorts.
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The 2003 Element is Honda's new entry-level cross-over vehicle, starting around $16,500. It's aimed at young men who want something more affordable and versatile than the company's established SUV, the CR-V. It's not just the bread truck shape of the Element that's unusual, but the use of gray panels on the nose and surrounding the wheels. Those panels, made of polypropylene, do more than contribute to the Element's unusual style. Getting inside the Element is a bit different. You have to open the wide front doors in order to give access to the smaller back doors, which open with the hinge in the back to create a clam-shell style opening. Back in the day these were known as suicide doors, but depending on your point of view, they are either annoying or versatile. They are mildly annoying to some front seat occupants who have to open up their doors to allow someone in the back seat to get in or out.
2003 Honda Element - Detailed Pricing and Specifications - MSN Autos
At the North American International Auto Show in 2001, Honda introduced a boxy SUV concept called the Model X. The new concept combined the features of a pickup truck and a SUV and was targeted squarely at young, active buyers. Due to the strong public response to this unique vehicle, Honda announced at the 2002 New York Auto Show that the concept would go into production with the name Element. Tom Elliott, American Honda executive vice president, says "The Element is designed for those who surf, snowboard, mountain bike and just about anything else.
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For the 2006 model year, Honda's versatile and fun-to-drive Element adds the EX-P trim level to its already distinct and diverse lineup. The new EX-P trim is based on the existing EX trim level and adds body-colored painted side panels and door handles. Since its launch in 2003, the Element has become the new benchmark for functional and design in the light-truck arena.
Honda Element - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Element is an automobile manufactured by Honda and released in the United States in 2003. It is classified in the SUV class, but is of car-like unibody construction rather than having a separate frame. The 4-seat Element is designed to carry large and possibly messy loads. The floor is textured urethane that is easy to clean; the fabric is tough and stain-resistant; the individual rear seats fold up (and are removable as well) to leave a large load space.
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