2026 Honda Passport
This year drew an ordinary 52 complaints for a Honda Passport — the model's median is 56. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.3% of them mention seat, against 2.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 52 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 56 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 20.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- seat — 17.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (7.2×).
- puts — 7.7% of this year's complaints, against 0.4% across the model's other years (20.5×). Owners wrote it as: puts, new 2026.
- may — 13.5% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (2.5×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
After maybe an hour of driving, the driver's seat becomes uncomfortable to the point that my left buttocks and leg become sore and numb, causing me to have to continually shift positions and adjust the seat while driving. I feel this creates an unsafe driving…
I was driving approximately 70 MPH, on a freeway in rain; I moved to the passing lane to go around a semi-truck. Spray from the semi was heavy but I could still see the road. Suddenly, the car brakes engaged very strongly. We were jolted forward in our seats.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 26V424000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Honda Passport was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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