Honda Passport (2026) Review

The old Passport was a Pilot with two rows and no personality. This one is a proper piece of design, squared off and upright, with a raised ride height, standard torque vectoring all wheel drive and, on the TrailSport trims, all-terrain tires and underbody protection that testers who took it off pavement describe as the real thing rather than a decal package. Inside it is the best Honda interior in years: a wide 12.3 inch screen, physical knobs for the things you touch while moving, and a rear bench an adult can spend a day in.

It was a finalist for the biggest American SUV award of the year and has picked up a shelf of smaller ones, and the near universal read is that the everyday behavior is excellent. The single thing everybody flags is fuel. There is no hybrid, the 3.5-liter V6 returns about twenty miles per gallon in mixed driving, and the hybrid rivals from Toyota and Hyundai do materially better for similar money, which is why that one grade sits so far below the rest of the card. Buy it for what it does and accept what it drinks.