HONDA must be relieved that Ford does not want to offer Australians the world’s greatest people-mover in the form of the Europe-only S-Max, because even though its latest Odyssey is massively improved in key areas such as safety and refinement, the Japanese seven-seater has lost some of the popular old model’s style, pizzazz and personality, as well as the sequential gear shifter, leaving mums, dads and child guardians out there with little to stir their driving emotions. It isn’t a bargain any more, either. Still, the A-pillars are one-third skinner ...