Honda Competes In Off-Road Rebelle Rally With Not-Yet-Revealed 2023 Pilot TrailSport

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2023 Honda Pilot TrailSport Rebelle Rally
Honda’s “The Co-Pilots” team will navigate the new Pilot TrailSport in the 2022 Rebelle Rally before its official reveal. Honda

And they’re off! 

The 2022 Rebelle Rally off-road event kicked off this week through the harsh desert terrain of California and Nevada as teams started on the eight-day navigation challenge. One of those teams was in Honda’s 2023 Honda Pilot TrailSport—before the three-row SUV’s official reveal later this year. The standard Pilot will also be unveiled then. 

The Pilot TrailSport is set to be the most rugged and off-road capable Honda yet (no Honda SUVs make our top off-roaders list), and was only modified in a special Diffused Sky Blue wrap for the Rally. Its all-terrain tires, steel skid plates, off-road suspension, AWD, spare full-size tire and three rows come standard. 

Honda’s team includes two Honda employees based out of Ohio: Liz Long, a test engineer, and Hillary Tate, a project administrator at Honda facilities.

2023 Honda Pilot TrailSport Rebelle Rally
The custom wrap on the 2023 Honda Pilot TrailSport represents all-day adventures in the mountains and outdoors. Honda

The Rebelle Rally is an all-women event that challenges teams to traverse tough terrain without GPS, cellphones or other technology in slightly modified four-wheel drive or two- or all-wheel drive vehicles. Think paper maps, compasses, safety equipment and other navigation tools and skills being put to use all while piloting a vehicle through sand, over rocks and more to daily checkpoints.

Last year’s Honda team competed in a modified 2021 Honda HPD Ridgeline truck. The winner in the 4×4 category was the 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe, the first electrified winner in rally history. That year the all-electric Volkswagen ID.4 AWD competed for the first time, also.

2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Rebelle Rally
The modified 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz pickup truck practices ahead of the Rebelle Rally. Hyundai
2023 Kia Sportage X-Pro Rebelle Rally
Kia outfitted a 2023 Sportage X-Pro for the off-road course. Kia

Other notable teams for the seventh annual rally include Hyundai’s 2022 Santa Cruz pickup modified with off-road tires, skid plate and lift kit, the winning Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe plug-in hybrid, a Ford Bronco Wildtrak with a HOSS 3.0 off-road package upgrade, a 2023 Nissan Pathfinder Rock Creek and a modified 2023 Kia Sportage X-Pro.

Live tracking shows the teams taking on the daily navigation challenge to hidden checkpoints that cover more than 1,500 miles throughout the course of the rally.

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