The 2026 Honda Passport has been honored with an “Adventure Vehicle of the Year” award by the editors of GearJunkie. The rugged Passport and Passport TrailSport earned top honors in the 2-row SUV category.
This marks the second time Honda has won a GearJunkie Adventure Vehicle of the Year award, with the 2024 Honda Transalp 750 named Best Motorcycle in 2023.
What GearJunkie Said About the Honda Passport:
“The 2026 Honda Passport is all-new, featuring a more aggressive appearance and enhanced off-road capability, particularly in TrailSport trim. It hit the market in early 2025, and despite the lack of a low-range transfer case, it has a host of compelling off-road features that give it legitimate adventure chops. The parts come together to make an impressively civilized and capable package, on- and off-road.”
GearJunkie’s annual “Adventure Vehicle of the Year” awards honor the best on- and off-road adventure vehicles to hit market over the last 12 months. This year, after testing a variety of new, adventurous vehicles, the editors of GearJunkie awarded eight vehicles, recognizing each as the best in its respective category, and wholeheartedly recommending them to buyers looking for their next adventuremobile.
For more information about the 2025 GearJunkie Adventure Vehicle of the Year Awards click here.
2026 Honda Passport
Designed, developed and built in the U.S. using domestic and globally-made parts, the all-new 2026 Honda Passport is the ultimate Honda adventure SUV offering a class-leading combination of rugged design, authentic off-road capability and exceptional on-road performance. Packed with standard equipment, including V6 power and torque-vectoring i-VTM4® all-wheel drive, the 2026 Passport is available in three very well-equipped and capable primary trim levels – RTL, TrailSport and the first-ever TrailSport Elite.
The new Passport TrailSport is the most off-road capable Honda SUV ever, with standard rugged features, including an off-road tuned suspension, expanded all-wheel drive system capabilities, robust steel underbody skid plates, exposed bright orange heavy-duty recovery points, specially-engineered all-terrain tires, and more, to get weekend adventurers even farther down the trail or up the mountain. The top-of-the-line TrailSport Elite combines authentic off-road capability with top-level feature content, including a new TrailWatch™ camera system, perforated leather seating and a 12-speaker Bose premium audio system.
The Honda Passport posted record sales in 2025, up nearly 70% compared to last year, with rugged TrailSport trims accounting for 80% of sales of the all-new model.
Learn more about the Honda Passport and Passport TrailSport here.