If you’ve been to a Honda dealer or Toyota dealer in search of a new SUV for the family, you’ve probably seen the Honda Passport and the Toyota Highlander.

While both of these will do the trick, the Passport stands out with its outstanding performance, advanced safety systems and reliability. Which one do you think will be the best choice for your family? Take a look.

Longer or Wider: It’s Your Choice

Whether you would like the Honda Passport or the Toyota Highlander for your family depends on who you need to fit inside it. The Highlander is longer and has room for a third row. This means you can bring up to seven people with you on your ride, although the third row is on the small side. The Passport doesn’t have a third row, giving you seating for just five, but all five spots have plenty of space. The Passport is wider and taller than the Highlander, so whether you have kids or your friends in the third row, they can stretch out without bumping elbows.

How Much Do You Need to Haul?

How often do you fill up the back of your SUV with gear to haul from one place to another? Whether it’s little kid stuff such as strollers, big kid stuff such as skis bags or hockey equipment, or household items, how much space do you need back there? Even though it is shorter, when you find a Pilot at a Honda Dealer, you’ll see that it can hold more cargo than the Highlander. When you fold down the rear seats, you’ll have 100 cubic feet of space in the back, while the Highlander maxes out at 84.3 cubic feet.

Safety Is Front and Center

Whether you decide on the Pilot or the Highlander, you can feel confident that you’ll have all the advanced safety systems you need. Every Passport comes standard with the Honda Sensing suite of driver aids. It includes blind-spot warning with rear cross-traffic alert, forward collision with automatic braking, and lane-keep assist. It also comes standard with adaptive cruise control. The Highlander’s Safety Sense 2.5+ has similar safety features, including frontal collision mitigation, adaptive cruise control, automatic high beam headlights, and lane-keep assist. The Highlander even has a traffic sign reader that comes standard.

All the Tech You Need

When shopping at a Honda dealer for the Passport, no matter what trim you decide on, it will have lots of technology in the cabin. The base EX-L has an 8-inch touchscreen, wireless charging, and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The Highlander also starts with an 8-inch touchscreen, but it also has four USB-C charging ports, Amazon Alexa, and comes standard with a Wi-Fi hotspot. If you bump up to one of the higher Highlander trims, you ‘ll get a larger 12.3-inch touchscreen. Is listening to music what you like to do when you drive? Both the Passport and the Highlander have upgraded stereos available.