But your combined mpg can easily be in the low 20s as advertised. During city driving the mpg has dropped down to 17-19 for me, which (sadly) is about what I expected. I was able to average 26 mpg on the highway, which exceeded my expectation for this size of vehicle. The acceleration doesn’t really impress, but if you are comfortable using the paddle shifters, you can easily downshift when needed to make that tight merge onto the interstate, etc. Despite these cons, I feel the new Passport deserves 5 stars based on my limited experience thus far. It makes the tail/brake lights seem puny to me and ultimately less safe due to lack of visibility. Also, it seems that Honda removed the red “tail-light extension” lighting found on the rear hatch of the current Pilot (possibly to make the Passport more distinctive). The white reverse lights are all the way down just above the exhaust tips, making them less visible. The lighting choices on the back of the vehicle are perplexing. Honda places this all around the gear selector so if you are searching by feel for the buttons you are sure to smudge it all up (I don’t think this is an issue on the Sport or EX-L). (4) on Touring & Elite there is glossy piano black trim that collects finger prints and smudges like a champ. I wish it was defaulted to the OFF position. The good news is that it is just one button press (just below the gear selector) to turn it off, but that is a bit annoying to do on every trip if you do not like this feature. when idling at a red light) is defaulted to *ON* every time you start the engine.
(3) The Auto Stop/Start of the engine (e.g. It may be the future of gear selection, but I still prefer something more mechanical, where muscle memory takes over instead of the Passport’s version that requires looking down to ensure pressing the correct button. The push button gear selector takes some getting used to. I’d prefer more real estate to rest my forearm on.
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This Passport is not perfect though, so here are five things I would have Honda change (the first four are right between the driver and front passenger): (1) The Captain’s chair style arm rests are a bit narrow and short for my liking. After a week of driving the new Passport my top five favorite features are : (1) The Honda Sensing safety suite (I especially love the Blind Spot Monitoring, included at EXL and above), (2) the Apple Car Play is terrific, (3) the Nav on this Touring trim also works well, (4) The push buttons in the cargo area for quick fold-down of the back seats rock!, and (5) The underfloor storage area in the cargo area is handy for keeping items out of sight and secured from sliding around in the back.
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