The all-new 2026 Honda Passport SUV has earned the 2025 TOP SAFETY PICK+ (TSP+) rating, the highest safety accolade from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The Passport earned top ratings from IIHS in crashworthiness evaluations, pedestrian front crash prevention, and headlight performance. Enhanced rear seat belts in the 2026 Passport also improved second-row passenger protection in the updated IIHS moderate overlap front test. A combined six Honda models have now earned a 2025 TSP rating or better.
Based on the company’s long-standing “Safety for Everyone” approach, Honda is committed to advancing safety for everyone sharing the road. All 2026 Passport models are equipped with the Honda Sensing® suite of safety and driver-assistive technologies: including Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) with Pedestrian Detection, evaluated by the IIHS as a “front crash prevention” system; Forward Collision Warning; Road Departure Mitigation (RDM) incorporating Lane Departure Warning (LDW); Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS); blind spot information (BSI) system; Traffic Jam Assist (TJA); Traffic Sign Recognition System (TSR)and Adaptive Cruise Control with Low-Speed Follow (ACC).
Honda Sensing® is now standard on all new Honda automobiles, and has been installed in over 9.5 million vehicles in the U.S. since the technology suite’s introduction in 2014.
The 2026 Honda Passport, like all Honda vehicles, benefits from the proprietary Honda Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure, designed to help protect occupants in a wide variety of frontal collisions, along with advanced supplemental restraint systems. For the 2026 Honda Passport, Honda engineers enhanced ACE™ with a new structure that is optimized and integrated into the front sub-frame and side-frame to improve the Passport’s crash compatibility with smaller vehicles, as well as occupant protection in oblique frontal collisions.
The 2026 Passport features eight standard airbags, the most ever for the model. This includes an award-winning front passenger airbag that uses a three-chamber design and is particularly beneficial in angled frontal impacts in which lateral collision forces can cause an occupant’s head to rotate severely or slide off the airbag, increasing the chance of serious injury. The new airbag is designed to reduce strain on brain tissue by 75% compared to the previous generation front passenger airbag by better controlling the front passenger’s head in certain types of collisions.
Front knee airbags and side curtain airbags are also standard, and Passport’s standard load-limiting retractors for the outboard second-row seats feature updated load force settings to further mitigate potential injuries measured in IIHS testing. Rear Seatbelt Reminder and Rear Seat Reminder systems are standard on Passport; the latter notifies drivers to check the rear seating area for children, pets, or other precious cargo when exiting the vehicle.
In addition to IIHS testing, every Honda model that has been fully evaluated in the NHTSA’s 2024 and 2025 model year NCAP testing has received a 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score¹.
For complete details on the innovative approaches used to achieve outstanding safety in the Honda Passport, go to the section of the Passport press kit that can be found here: Passport Safety & Driver-Assistive Technology info.
Honda 2025 IIHS Award Winners:
- 2025 Honda Accord (TSP+)
- 2025 Honda Civic Sedan (TSP)
- 2025 Honda Civic Hatchback (TSP+)
- 2025 Honda HR-V (TSP+)
- 2025 Honda Pilot (TSP)
- 2026 Honda Passport (TSP+)
Honda Commitment to Safety
Honda is committed to further advancing safety for everyone sharing the road, which is captured in the Honda global safety slogan “Safety for Everyone.” The company has established a global goal to achieve zero traffic collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles by 2050. To achieve this goal, Honda is expanding its focus beyond advanced safety and driver assistive technologies alone to include efforts to augment safety awareness to modify driver behavior and improve the traffic safety ecosystem by working with government, industry, and community partners.
Honda operates two of the world’s most sophisticated crash-test facilities in Ohio and Japan, and is responsible for numerous pioneering efforts in crashworthiness, collision compatibility, and pedestrian safety.
Advanced passive safety features include the proprietary Honda Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE™) body structure and next-generation driver and passenger front airbag technology, which are designed to provide a high level of collision protection for occupants. Advanced active safety and driver-assistive systems found in Honda Sensing® and AcuraWatch™ technologies, now on over 10 million vehicles on U.S. roads, are designed to reduce the frequency and severity of collisions while also serving as a technological and perceptual bridge to the more highly automated vehicles of the future.
