2022 Honda Passport Trailsport: TEST DRIVE+FULL REVIEW

Hey guys, Will here with WTF Car Reviews and today we're going to be reviewing this all-new 2022 Honda Passport Trailsport. And huge thanks to Joey and the rest of the management and staff here at Honda of Wesley Chapel for making this review possible. I'll leave links to their inventory below and I'll definitely suggest anybody looking for a new car in the Florida area to check these guys out and ask for Joey. And for those of you guys who don't know, the Passport has been a part of Honda's lineup since 1993. That's when the first generation was released. That wasn't Honda's specific vehicle, they were actually partnered with Isuzu. So fast forward to 2002, Honda actually ended up discontinuing the Passport in favor of their very own Honda Pilot. But fast forward to 2019, Honda ended up bringing back the Passport. And here for this 2022 Honda Passport, we have the Trailsport trim. Starting around $42,500, let's see what we get. So up front, we notice our LED projector beam headlights with an LED daytime running strip right outside. Very similar to what we get in the Ridgeline, very similar vehicle overall. You have a projector beam right here with a high beam right next to it, and it turns signal on the outside. I'm really liking this black headlight housing, especially with this blacked out trim that would otherwise be chrome, as we saw in the Ridgeline that we just reviewed in this channel. I'm not liking this panel gap between the hood and that front end trim, however. It's not popped, the hood is not popped at all, so it's just a gap that you get in your front end. But as far as this grille, I'm really liking the gunmetal gray over here. It's going to be a metallic, and I am liking this Honda badge. Very large, and you have your silver metallic gunmetal gray material right outside of it. Really digging that grille, very unique with your Trailsport orange engraving right there to the side. We're going to have turn signals on both sides, down over here with the LED fog light beneath it, and we're going to have some functional airflow just like we had on the Ridgeline. But we'll take a step back and take a look at the front styling one more time. Really, really beautiful, especially with the daytime running strips. But we'll take a look at this wheel and tire setup because that's also where this vehicle is really going to shine. So right here, similar to what we had on the Ridgeline, different wheel or different rim design. It's going to have Y-spokes on the gunmetal gray rims. They're still going to be 18s wrapped in 245-60R18 Firestone Destination all-season tires. Pretty aggressive all-season tire. As you see, we are going to have a little bit of tread on the outside of the tire itself. But similar to the bumper, we're going to have the plastic cladding continuing all the way to the wheel well. We are going to have splash guard for the front and the rear. We'll check out the rear splash guard once we hop out back. We are going to have plastic cladding for the rocker panels too. So it's definitely going to help this off-road capable SUV prevent as many rock trips as possible. But continuing along, we're going to have a two-tone contrast for the mirror. However, we are going to have the black paint, so you're not going to notice it. We have an LED turn signal on the mirror. Very large glass, really fills up the frame. Very similar to what we had on the Ridgeline. Unlike the Ridgeline though, we're not going to have any shiny chrome for the window trim. Everything's going to be blacked out for this Trailsport trim. Blacked out B-pillar, even the roof rails are going to be all blacked out. Very nice, very supportive. You can really shake this SUV very easily. But as far as this window sticker, of course, we have the 2022 Passport All-Wheel Drive Trailsport starting around $42,500. Here's all the standard equipment. Kind of similar to what we had on the Ridgeline that we just reviewed. 280 horsepower, three and a half liter VTEC V6 with variable cylinder management. Really going to help your fuel economy. Nine-speed auto transmission, IV, M4, all-wheel drive system, paddle shifters, intelligent traction management, hill start assist. You can take a look at all the airbags and electronic brake stability features. As far as the interior, we're going to have a leather-trimmed interior, leather-wrapped steering wheel, display audio with Honda Navigation, voice recognition, rear-view camera, audio system with seven speakers, not eight. We had eight in the Ridgeline. Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, wireless phone charger, USB audio interface, HD radio, push start, push button shifter, all that. You guys can pause, take a look at all these advanced interior features. As far as the exterior, we're going to have front and rear parking sensors, blind spot information with cross-traffic alert. We're going to have power moonroof with tilt feature. We're going to have 18-inch alloy wheels, 245 all-seasons, heated windshield. Heated windshield, that's a nice feature. Power tailgate, auto on and off headlights, LED headlights and taillights, auto high beams, LED fog lights, heated power door mirrors, return indicators. You guys can take a look at all that. Honda Sensing, which includes adaptive cruise, collision mitigation, braking, lane keep assist, road departure mitigation, and Trailsport gives you the gray wheels, grille, bumper, skid garnish, Trailsport logo seats, and orange all-season floor mats, orange interior lighting, Trailsport badge with black nameplate emblems as well. As far as options, this vehicle is not going to have any, so the base price is going to be sitting around $42,000 and a half. After a $1,200 destination charge, expect a total vehicle price to be sitting at $43,695. As far as fuel economy, just like the Ridgeline, we're going to get 21 combined MPGs, 19 city, 24 highway, so pretty solid on gas. Not the best, obviously, but not the worst either. No smart access in the rear. We are going to get smart access for the driver and the front passenger. No push to open gas tank. I'll show you guys where the latch is inside, and we have our splash guard, as we mentioned, back over here. LED taillights, turn signals as well. We're going to have the reverse lights right down here, right above the exhaust tip, which is a pretty large tip, and I am liking how it's flared out, really flows very flushly with this bumper. We're going to have the blacked-out Passport badge. Shout out, Wesley Chapel Honda. Parking sensors for the rear and the Trailsport badge right above your all-wheel drive badge, but we'll take a step back. You can really take a look at this rear styling. Really loving those exhaust tips, especially with that gunmetal gray diffuser in between, but we'll squat down right over here and give you guys a couple revs and hear how the 3.5-liter V6 sounds. All right, guys, that was, of course, the sound of the 3.5-liter VTEC V6 sold by Honda for the Passport. Now you guys can see the gap gets a lot larger once you pop the hood. As soon as we find this latch, however, we'll show you guys this motor, and we're not going to get any struts. That's unfortunate for a vehicle costing around 43,000 bucks, but we'll set up the prop rod. Here you have it. There's a 3.5-liter VTEC V6 making 280 horsepower, 262 pound-feet of torque, made it to this nine-speed automatic transmission. You can expect this 4,300-pound SUV to get to 60 around 7 to 7.5 seconds, so not the quickest, but I do think this vehicle has a different exhaust setup to the Ridgeline. It does have so there's some subtle differences. As far as this airbox, you may notice that it sits towards the back of the engine bay, but not a big deal because you are going to get this tunnel that runs all the way from your grille through to your intake airbox, so you are going to get some cooled air funneled in. That's about it, though. Pretty self-explanatory. We'll shut this hood up as soon as we can figure out this prop rod. Hopefully, I don't drop the hood on my head, but here we have it. We'll take one more step back. You can take a look at those daytime running lights one more time, and let's hop over here and check out the interior on this 2022 Passport Trailsport. Again, we're going to have smart access for the driver and the front passenger. Step it inside. Just like the Ridgeline we reviewed, we're going to have soft-touch materials up top with that faux carbon fiber plastic trim, memory seats, plastic door handle. The Ridgeline we reviewed had an aluminum door handle. Not a big deal, but just something that's different that I wanted to point out. Soft-touch in the middle portion. Stitching down here. Very soft, too. Orange stitching. Auto one-touch for the driver and the front passenger. Power windows for the rear to adjust the mirrors. Buttons are going to be right over here. We have very solid storage for this middle portion. You can probably fit a foot long down here. You can probably fit a small cup, ton of coins, trunk release, gas tank release, and additional storage beneath. You have one out of your seven speakers. As far as these seats, also super, super similar to the Ridgeline. However, the stitching is going to be in different locations. Still perforated like the orange contrast as far as the adjustments. Lumbar control, you can recline the seats, drop them, lift them, and slide the seats as well. We can take a step inside. We have a Trail Sport nameplate on the floor mats. Let's step inside and really check out this interior. Very quiet. As soon as you close the door, everything just goes away outside noise-wise. We have the acoustic glass for the windshield. It's not going to be dual-pane windows, single-pane windows, but they do a great job when it comes to drowning out the outside noise. As far as the steering wheel, same thing compared to the Ridgeline. We're going to have different stitching, different perforation. Rather than that, basically the exact same thing. Different paddle shifters, too. These are just going to be plastic as opposed to the Ridgeline's aluminized plastic. Anyway, not going to be very thick, really no bolstering notches for the 10 and 2, 9 and 3. Not the best finger slots in the back of the wheel, so it's okay. It does the job when it comes to the steering wheel. You have three spokes down here, so it makes it very comfortable when it comes to driving with your arm on the armrest. That's a thumbs up, I guess. We have these additional armrests right here on the seats. Once we figure it out, I always have a lot of trouble when it comes to figuring out these. Okay, we got it set up. Put our elbow here, and you have a very comfortable spot on this side of the steering wheel. As far as the steering wheel adjustments, on this side you have your infotainment adjustments, voice commands. You can adjust the volume of the songs and skip them right over here. As far as the horn, it's going to have a nice grain texture to it. It's going to feel almost rubberized as far as the horn itself. Really aggressive sounding horn. Same thing as the Ridgeline cruise control settings. We have a lane keep assist and our main menu right over here. It adjusts between the ACC and lane keep assist. I'm not quite sure what ACC would stand for, but your lane keep assist can be adjusted with this button right over here. To adjust this gauge display up front, we're going to have our tachometer up top. It's going to go to about 6,700. No speedometer. It's just going to be the digital speedo right here in the middle with our gear indicator to the left of it. To adjust this center area, we can just press these buttons right here. So you have a trip computer. We'll drive torque. Let's click on that. So it shows you where the power is being sent at all times. Hop out of here. We also have our phone settings, navigation. So if you have a route hooked up on your map, you can see a little heads up information right up front. You can also see what song's playing, maintenance information, see who's wearing a seatbelt and who's not. Overall settings. So overall settings allows you to arrange your apps, show tachometer, and that's about it. We also have units of measurement, blank screen, but I guess we can just leave it right over here. My personal favorite, I guess, just look at the trip computer at all times. We could also see that's about it. Okay. Anyway, to the left, we have our coolant temperature. We have a thermometer right next to it. You can see how many miles are on the vehicle and we have our fuel tank level to the right. As far as the wiper and turn signal stocks and these headlight stocks, very satisfying click. We do get auto headlights and auto high beams on this vehicle. We're not going to get rain sensing wipers, but as the rain gets more aggressive, you can adjust the wipers right over here. But anyway, to the left of the steering wheel, we already mentioned the mirrors. They're going to be power folding. You can turn off your parking sensors. You can turn off or press this button and it turns something to do the wipers on. I'll let you guys leave it in the comment section. Let me know what that button does. You can turn off your forward collision alert, lane keep assist. You can turn off as well. You can also turn off your traction control. As far as the steering wheel, it's going to be a tilt and telescope. The latch is right here. E-brake is going to be right beneath and your hood release right underneath. You can probably check out the pedals. They're just going to be old school pedals, not aluminum or anything like that. Dashboard's going to have this really nice stitch material. You get two additional speakers on both sides, but we're not going to have that center speaker that we had on the ridgeline. As far as the touchscreen, it's going to be much smaller than the ridgeline, but it still shows you just about everything you need to see. The map's going to be really, really dated. The response, it's going to respond quick enough, but it's not going to be one of the quicker screens in the business. Definitely more dated compared to a lot of vehicles in the segment, but still you get navigation. As far as everything you get, you get phone settings, you get Bluetooth audio, Android Auto, and Apple CarPlay, so you really get everything you need. If the map's not high enough resolution for you, you can simply use Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Another complaint about this screen is it's really angled like this, so that's nice when it comes to looking down on a dark day, but once the sun comes out, you really get killed when it comes to glare. My personal favorite screen to just look at is just this map. We'll leave it here. The audio dial, very satisfying click to very good weight resistance. We get a little bit of piano black around the screen with some aluminum. It looks pretty premium. The piano black shouldn't be a huge issue because it is very limited in this vehicle. You get your red illuminated start-stop button with that plastic carbon fiber as trim, interior brightness to the left, dual zone auto climate control, heated seats, no cooled seats. You have very solid storage, probably fit two or three iPhone Pro Maxes if you stack them on top of each other. Wireless charging pad, 12 volt, and a USB cubby right next to it. Two cup holders, with a pass-through, you can easily fit a phone. They're not going to be rubberized, but they should definitely keep your stuff pretty well in place. As far as the gear selector, there are going to be buttons. You can press the button for park, pull it back for reverse, press the button for neutral, press between drive and sport right over here. You press this button, you can adjust between your normal, snow, mud, and sand modes. We'll leave it in normal because we're not going to be taking this vehicle off-roading. This trim over here, it's only flat black, no soft touch for where your knee will often hit. That's a little bit unfortunate. As far as the storage compartment down here, very massive. We have an additional cubby here too, if you want some extra space. Really, really massive, impressive storage area. You should be able to fit a bowling ball in here with no issues. You probably fit six cans out on the outside of the bowling ball. Additional 12-volt, additional USB port too. You can shut this cubby up as well. This material is going to also feel pretty high quality. As far as the glove box, you pull this latch. It is going to be damped. The Ridgeline that we reviewed did not have a damped glove box. This looks a little bit larger. I would expect you to fit between maybe 15 to 20 license plates. I don't know if you'll fit a second pair of shoes, but you could fit a first pair of shoes in here with really no problems at all. As far as the rear view mirror, it's going to be auto dimming with three garage settings on it. You can open up your sunroof right here. Pull this latch too. It's not going to be the largest moonroof, but the sunroof itself goes into the roof. We can poke our way out of here. Beautiful day right now in Wesley Chapel, Florida, sunny in 72. We can close this thing up right here. We'll leave the shade open, so when we hop out back, you guys can get a good view. That's about it for the front seat on this 2022 Honda Passport Trailsport. Let's hop out back real quick, see how much space is offered back there, as well as the overall quality of the materials. All right, guys, step into the back seat of the 2022 Honda Passport Trailsport. Up top, everything's going to be hard plastic, just like the Ridgeline. I am liking that we get a sunshade, though, so that's going to help if you have kids trying to sleep back here. Down here, we are going to have some soft touch material. That's nice compared to the Ridgeline. That was not like that contrast stitched leather material with that orange stitching. Plastic door handle, not a big deal. Dual cup holders, that's nice, and we get some storage down here too. You could probably fit a foot long in there. That's a really impressive deep cutout. You can get some coins down here, maybe some candy bars, some snacks next to it. Another one of your seven speakers. Stepping in, we're not going to have any Trailsport or Passport nameplates or anything like that. As far as these seats, they're going to be pretty nice contrast stitched leather seats with perforation, pretty good quality overall. You can also recline these seats too. We'll unbuckle this seatbelt real quick, take a step inside and really check out this back seat space. We'll move this license plate bracket out of the way too, but wow. Way more spacious than the Ridgeline. I have at least 10 inches of legroom. One of the more spacious back seats in the segment for sure. This is even more spacious than what I felt in the Pilot. We have two map pockets behind both, driver and a front passenger, air vents, a little bit of storage, AC adapter, and two USBs. As far as this little pass-through cubby, you can drop your hand in here. A little bit smaller than the Ridgeline, but you can still fit two arms on both sides of these cup holders with a pass-through. Putting this thing back. As far as the interior lighting, also not quite sure why you can't use them. Same thing with the Ridgeline. I guess it must be missing something. Let me know in the comments section if there's a way to use these lights without having to go through any settings. But that's about it for this back seat, guys. Let's hop out to the trunk and see how much space is offered back there and then take this SUV out for a drive. All right, guys, so to hop into this trunk, you simply pull this latch back here and we are going to have an auto opening tailgate. And it's very massive, really large amount of space. The opening or the step-in height is going to be pretty high. As you see, I'm six feet tall and I'm about at least 10 inches from here. So if you have older or shorter pets, they're going to have a pretty tough time hopping back here. But we're going to have a really, really impressive amount of space. And if that's not enough for you, you have some additional storage right down over here. And this is also a pretty solid amount of space. I'm definitely impressed with this vehicle so far. But that's about it for this cargo space. We are going to get an additional 12 volt back over here and we can drop our rear seats with these two buttons. To close this thing up, we simply press this button right up top on the tailgate. We'll take a step back and as soon as this tailgate shuts up, we'll take this 2022 Honda Passport Trail Sport out for a drive. All right, guys, now we're just about seeing everything we need to see with the inside and outside of this all new 2022 Honda Passport Trail Sport. Let's take it out for a drive and we'll just start off in normal mode and then transition into sport and see what the differences are. And we are going to test out these paddles. And when it came to the Ridgeline, I really enjoyed using the paddles. They were very responsive. Transmission was also very responsive. We'll see how that is in this vehicle with a pretty similar overall power plant. But taking a step out here, the steering feels smooth, very smooth and on center. A little bit of gas, quarter throttle, not a lot. Yeah, good torque goes about 2500 rpm. All right, guys, just a little sharp turn right here. The steering feels on center. It feels much more on center than it did in the Ridgeline and the Pilot we reviewed in this channel. We'll see how that changes up in sport. It stays the same. Pretty smooth steering overall. All right, we'll go into this turn a little bit quicker than we should. A little bit of body roll, but really not that much. Like third throttle. Good torque. Sharp on. Steering feels very on center. You hear the water bottle flying around. We'll turn around right here and put the car into sport and see what the differences are. All right, guys, we'll try it out in sport. Throw it into first gear. A little bit of gas. Second gear, lean into it. Wow, this thing can move. And the body roll is pretty limited, actually. Surprisingly limited. Nice. Downshift. And in sport, we are going to get some rev match downshift, so that's always appreciated. And looks like we have some open road. Never mind, the car is coming out. So second gear on the gas. Guys, this thing is surprisingly strong. I almost feel like this motor has to be underrated because when you step on the throttle, there is a serious, serious show of torque. And the handling is much better than I was expecting when it came to this vehicle, because the Ridgeline and the Pilot, neither of those vehicles were very good when it came to handling. You wouldn't really expect it to be. But same with this. You wouldn't really expect this to be either. Just on the brakes, feels really sharp. All right, but we don't have to push it much farther than that. We'll take it out of sport and just see how this vehicle performs. Right here, we can check out this vehicle's turning radius. Hopefully, we don't get in anybody's way. But wow, really good turning radius, too. On the gas, about like fifth of the way. Daily acceleration, still really, really solid. And once you put it back into normal mode, you immediately feel less through the wheel. The steering wheel gets a lot lighter, but it's still pretty on center. I think this is more on center than most of the other vehicles, like large vehicles from Honda when it comes to the Ridgeline or the Pilot. I think this vehicle has the best steering rack. And in sport mode, when you're not using the paddle shifters, the transmission is way out of overdrive. You're going to be sitting around 3,000 RPMs at all times. And the steering, it gets a tiny, tiny bit heavier. But the biggest difference in sport when you're not using the paddles, it's still going to be your transmission. All right, guys, hopping back out over here, third throttle. Yeah, we get to speeds pretty quickly. Very good torque in this motor, especially made it to this nine speed transmission, really keeping this motor in its power band as long as possible. Really impressive driving dynamics, too, with the steering and handling. I'm very impressed with this SUV. I'll definitely suggest anybody looking for an off-road capable mid-sized SUV with five passenger seating to definitely check this one out. Really impressive car, very luxurious, very comfortable. The driving dynamics here are actually surprisingly good. Really good response from the gas pedal. The paddle shifters also respond fantastically when you're in sport mode. And the overall sound isolation is also really, really good. I didn't mention yet, this little square, that's going to be where the blind spot monitoring is going to be. You'll see there's going to be a car that drives by right here. See how it lit up? That's going to be where our blind spot monitoring is if I didn't mention it yet. But other than that, huge thank you to Honda of Wesley Chapel for making this review possible. Really impressive passport trail sport here. I'll definitely recommend anybody looking for an off-road capable SUV to definitely check this one out. Thank you again so much for watching. I had a great time making this video. If you're new to this channel, please subscribe. If you've already subscribed, thank you so much. The channel is just not possible without you, and I really appreciate all of you guys for your constant support. But again, if you haven't subscribed yet, please subscribe. Leave a like too. It really helps me out with the YouTube algorithm. That's how these videos get promoted to new people. Leave a comment. Let me know what you like. Let me know what you don't like. Leave a comment. Let me know if there's any specific vehicles you'd like to see reviewed in this channel too. And I'll definitely try to get those videos for you as soon as possible. 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