"Chicago is a big market for Honda – a city where our CR-V is the reigning champ as the best-selling vehicle of 2014 – which makes it a great place to take the wraps off the new 2016 Honda Pilot, preparing to hit dealer showrooms this summer. Reengineered from the ground up, the new Pilot is an all-around great performer, with a decidedly more premium and sophisticated style, offering up more trims, more features and more family-friendly technology than ever before.

The introduction of the new Pilot – designed and developed in the U.S. – also marks the next big step in our remake of the Honda light truck line-up, which began last fall with the significantly redesigned CR-V and continues this spring and summer with the launch of the HR-V crossover and new Pilot. Later down the road, there's a redesigned Odyssey and Ridgeline truck.

Each of these new models is coming into a market that's primed for future growth.

It's going to be another exceptional year for Honda, and there's still more to come. I look forward to seeing you all again in New York in a few weeks, when we'll have even more to say about the 'Year of Honda'."

Jeff Conrad Senior Vice President & General Manager Honda Division