The Honda Passport TrailSport Is Strong Enough To Hang In The Air — Here’s How
This Honda can hang!
The 2026 Honda Passport TrailSport is an off-road model equipped with a couple of features designed to enhance its role as an adventure machine.
It comes standard with a trailer hitch receiver and two front recovery hooks. The recovery hooks have a capacity of 8,000 pounds each, while the vehicle is rated to two 5,000 pounds, though the hitch is stronger than that and also has two recovery points built into its structure.
Two demonstrate just how stout it all is, Honda strung three Passport TrailSports together and dangled them from a crane 100 feet over its testing facility in the California desert. Each weighs around 4,500 pounds.
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The cable was attached to the first vehicle’s recovery hooks, then additional cables were connected between the trailer hitches and recovery hooks. The recovery hooks are an interesting patented design that allows them to break away in a collision. Honda, of course, advises anyone of trying this themselves, but it does showcase the vehicle’s structure.
Honda says the Passport TrailSport is the most off-road capable vehicle it’s ever made, although that of course excludes the motorcycles and ATVs it also produces.
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It comes with a 285 hp V6, all-wheel-drive, off-road tuned suspension, all-terrain tires and underbody protection at a starting price of $49,900.