A roughly three-foot-high berm on an off-road course curated by Honda in Puerto Rico shows both the advancements and limitations of the 2026 Honda Passport TrailSport. Drive over the berm with even a slight angle,

From the moment Honda introduced the TrailSport badge on the 2022 Passport, engineers have been on a mission to make the name actually mean something. The first TrailSport treatment was merely a costume; the Passport that wore it was just a common crossover plying the suburbs in the automotive equivalent of a Patagonia vest.

When Honda brought the Passport name back for the 2019 model year (after a 1990s run as a rebranded Isuzu), Honda aimed squarely at the middle of the market. The new crossover was sized right for family buyers and had decent V6 power,