[jennifersmith]

It's a good question. The salesperson told us that all of the AWD transmissions have the cooler standard, but that's not the way I read it on the Honda website. I'm not planning to tow anything close to 5k lbs at the moment, but I'm planning to have a mechanic confirm it before I do.

Definitely fake news.

I just visually confirmed that there are no cooler lines coming out of the transmission block near the ATF warmer, nor is there a transmission cooler mounted in front of the radiator on the driver's side where it would be otherwise installed according to the Honda installation instructions. As a sidenote, I am planning on doing this ATF cooler install myself while all the fittings are newish.

This is true for the Ridgeline, so that may have the salesperson confused. But we definitely need to confirm this for the Passport. I doubt it.

I also thought I saw something about Pilot's having this as standard equipment as well.