The 2023 Honda Pilot TrailSport Is an Unrepentant Tease

Honda is being unnecessarily coy once more over the discharge of the 2023 Honda Pilot TrailSport. The latest teaser provides nearly a whole take a look at the entrance and rear finish of the upcoming off-road Pilot however stops wanting totally revealing the SUV.

Not less than this time, Honda shared slightly extra details about what makes the TrailSport totally different than the remainder of the lineup, as a substitute of simply displaying a picture that had us saying “Enhance!”

Honda insists the 2023 Honda Pilot TrailSport can be its “most rugged SUV ever” straight from the manufacturing unit. That suggests the next-generation Pilot can be extra succesful than each the earlier Pilot TrailSport and Passport TrailSport, which have been Honda’s authentic makes an attempt at promoting SUVs tailor-made for off-road.

The Passport TrailSport did a good job on the path, nevertheless it couldn’t actually brush off its bias as an SUV made for town. As the larger, heavier mannequin of the 2, the Pilot must strive even tougher than the Passport to show it’s severe about hitting the path — except it’s not severe, and simply needs to look the half.

Both approach, Honda is giving the brand new Pilot TrailSport normal options reminiscent of all-terrain tires, metal skid plates (plural), an off-road tuned suspension and an all-wheel drive system with expanded capabilities, which is able to in all probability simply find yourself having extra drive modes than the present torque vectoring AWD system.

The Pilot TrailSport that debuted in 2021 additionally got here with smaller 18-inch wheels in comparison with the remainder of the lineup, and gained 0.6 inches of floor clearance. And for reference, it price about $6,700 greater than the bottom mannequin Pilot Sport.

It’d be good if Honda elevated the brand new TrailSport’s floor clearance much more this time, however the Pilot is before everything an SUV with comfy seating for as much as eight passengers. So, extra floor clearance may not be a precedence. We’ll know quickly sufficient: the brand new Pilot TrailSport’s reveal is later this fall. Till then, we will solely think about what it’ll price, and what its full entrance and rear finish appear to be.