Honda Sees A Lot More Trailsport Models In Its Future

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Honda seems to person recognized Americans emotion an off-roader, aliases astatine nan very least, they emotion a car that looks for illustration an off-roader. Things sewage existent precocious erstwhile it pulled nan covers disconnected nan Honda Racing Passport TrailSport astatine SEMA pinch chunkier tires, further lighting, an 8,000-pound winch, aluminum skid plates, a raised suspension and a full bunch of different off-road-focused goodies. This sick task whitethorn beryllium a one-off, but it's starting to look much and much for illustration a starting constituent for wherever Honda's TrailSport sub-brand is headed.

At a roundtable pinch journalists successful Tokyo, Kazuhiro Takizawa, president and CEO of Honda America, said astir nan brand's early plans for TrailSport, and there's a hellhole of a batch to beryllium excited for if you're into Hondas aliases off-roading.

Full Disclosure: Honda flew maine and a group of journalists retired to Tokyo, put america up successful beautiful hotels and fed america astonishing food, each truthful we could cheque retired nan cool worldly it was moving connected successful and astir nan Japan Mobility Show.

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I've sewage immoderate bully news and I've sewage immoderate bad news. That sick-ass Honda Racing Passport Trailsport is so conscionable a SEMA build for now. It's a spot excessively bespoke and utmost for Honda to connection to its customers correct away, but that doesn't mean nosy things aren't connected nan horizon. Takizawa told nan group that Honda is looking to grow nan TrailSport trim further than wherever it is now. Currently, Honda offers TrailSport versions four models: CR-V, Ridgeline, Passport and Pilot. I'll beryllium real, I'm not judge wherever it would grow to successful nan lineup, unless Honda sewage weird pinch it and made an HR-V TrailSport aliases Prologue TrailSport.

In immoderate case, Takizawa wants to make TrailSport nan Type R of off-roaders, which I deliberation is simply a fabulous idea. "With immoderate models, we person nan Type R sports bid connected nan road, we want to heighten our off-road — not conscionable nan image but nan existent off-road capacity for those motortruck models," Takizawa said. He went connected to opportunity that nan off-road capacity is not conscionable astir really nan cars look, but improving crushed clearance and beefing up suspension.

Right now, it's not clear if Honda plans to grow nan capabilities of nan TrailSport models it already makes aliases if it will so task into caller marketplace segments. "This is our caller challenge," Takizawa said. "Electrification is not conscionable our challenge, but we're challenging successful this section also."

I'd for illustration to constituent retired that nan mobility astir TrailSport was asked by nary different than The Drive's very handsome and very midwestern Director of Content and Product, Joel Feder, and he is going to beryllium truthful freaking annoying if I don't see this shoutout. Mazel tov, buddy.