Honda Passport vs Honda Pilot vs ???

[Anonymous]

Parents have both.

[Anonymous]

Passport is essentially pilot with rear removed.

Highlander is probably more reliable FYI, Honda as a company is struggling (read about there $B lost in cancelled EVs)

A Forerunner is Passport equivalent but is actually different lineage than Highlander (though I think they moved on from body on frame).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Minivans lack AWD and good ground clearance. So they are not really a better option.

You can get AWD Sienna. You don’t really need the SUV kind of ground clearance unless you take it off road

DP. I do want both 4WD/AWD and ground clearance.

But I think ground clearance is more beneficial then AWD/4WD. Where even though I have a 4WD (where you need to manually switch between 2WD and 4WD), I rarely put my car in 4WD and have never been stuck. (There have been instances where I needed to put it in 4WD to get out of/through some spots)

And I've seen a good number of AWD cars get stuck at the same places. Often times you see that not all of the wheels are spinning because I guess the sensor doesn't detect that it needs to spin the wheels.

There are some parking lot entrances and inclines and dips on roadways, where I see cars often bottoming out on a normal day. And you see other cars scrape their hitches due to being too low to the ground.

With that being said, I think 7 to 8 inches is enough for normal driving. And when you look at the early 2000s minivans they had about 7 inches of ground clearance:
2005 Toyota Sienna 6.9 inches
2025 Toyota Sienna 6.4 inches to get 7 inches you have to get the "off road version" Woodland

2005 Honda Odyssey 4.5 inches
2025 Honda Odyssey 4.5 inches

For the Honda Odyssey, I looked at them on the road and they don't seem to far different then other cars. So think they must have a low hanging part somewhere underneath that decreases the ground clearance.

Unless you're really rural you'll be fine in a Sienna. I've driven them since 2010 in Colorado and unless we get 2 feet of snow overnight clearance has never been a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Passport is essentially pilot with rear removed.

Dug into the online specs. Above seems to be the case. Same engine and drivetrain. That 3.5l engine appears to be the same one that Honda has used for many years - very reliable.

Trim packages do vary between the two. Passport packages seem mostly off-road oriented.

[Anonymous]

Stop being a little B and get the Honda Odyssey

[Anonymous]

Have you looked at the Hyundai Palisade or Santa Fe? We love our SF...

[Anonymous]

I don't understand the concept of having THREE TEENAGERS and thinking they will all fit stuffed in one backseat. You need three rows. Get a minivan like any other normal parent of three teenagers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the concept of having THREE TEENAGERS and thinking they will all fit stuffed in one backseat. You need three rows. Get a minivan like any other normal parent of three teenagers.

The minivan was a godsend when I was moving kids in and out of college.

My friends even borrowed it

[Anonymous]

Even an SUV with a third row has a tiny cramped third row, they aren't comfortable for anyone larger than a small child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even an SUV with a third row has a tiny cramped third row, they aren't comfortable for anyone larger than a small child.

+1.