#2022 HONDA PASSPORT ELITE DRIVERS#
With all-wheel drive on the options list, the Passport lets drivers choose their adventure, but the big, low-sidewall 20-inch wheels and tires wouldn’t be our first choice for picking through rocky trails. It’s a bulky crossover and its handling’s better suited to broad curves, not hairpins. When the pace quickens, it leans into corners and reminds you it’s only distantly related to the Civic Type R. The Passport’s sound deadening and light steering gobble up miles on interstates with casual indifference. The Odyssey’s 10-speed automatic might be the fix. Its pushbutton gear selector takes up console space, and the transmission itself hesitates frequently in lower gears when it’s trying to decide which to choose next. The engine’s energetic and sounds great, but the 9-speed falls shy in places. The Passport borrows the 280-hp 3.5-liter V-6 from its kin, and their 9-speed automatic, too. The front seats could use more shape, but the expansive cargo hold maxes out around 78 cubic feet if you can fill it for a weekend jaunt, you’re probably on the tiny-house vector and just don’t know it yet. Honda grants Pilot-like space to five people in the Passport rear seats and rear-seat space are especially good, as is storage inside the Passport’s center console. The Passport’s better at muting that road and tackling gentle curves with a well-damped ride it’ll clamber over Moab’s red rocks without too much agita, but it’s happier getting to the trailhead than it is picking its way over the trail. The Passport’s 280-horsepower V-6 comes from the Pilot, too, and its rippling and muscular sound and acceleration filter through a 9-speed automatic that gets indecisive at times, unsure of whether to upshift for better gas mileage or downshift for the gentle highway grade ahead.
It’s not so adventurous as a Bronco or Wrangler, but the big 20-inch wheels and roof rails send some of the same outdoorsy signals. It grows a distinctive roofline, a blacked-out chin, and tougher body cladding, but the cabin’s nearly the same. The Passport begins life as a Pilot, minus six inches of body. With the Passport, Honda trims the Pilot’s fat and delivers a five-seat, two-row crossover SUV that’s not quite hardcore, but picks up its off-road game to square off against cars like the Subaru Outback and Jeep Grand Cherokee.įamiliar, solid, smooth, and spacious, the 2021 Pilot gets a TCC Rating of 6.2. The 2021 Honda Passport punches a ticket for drivers who think the three-row Pilot’s for big families and the smaller CR-V’s for couch potatoes.
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