Honda Ridgeline - Body Summary

Overview: New Generation Pickup Truck Packaging with Safety and Rigidity

The Honda Ridgeline is designed to be strong and intelligently adaptable to the needs of its users with features not available anywhere else. Honda's approach to body construction incorporates a heavy-duty unibody design for sophisticated packaging and safety with a lower ladder frame for truck toughness. Benefits to this approach have resulted in a first-ever in-bed cargo well; a spacious interior; a large pickup bed with minimal wheel well intrusions; and handling, safety and NVH qualities that outperform conventional pickup truck designs.

Body Summary
-Athletic stance styling with 21st century truck proportions and one-piece cab-to-bed design
-Integrated Closed-Box Frame with Unibody Construction has reinforced deep channel construction with a closed box ladder frame
-5-foot long bed (6 ½-foot with tailgate down) with 4-feet, 1-inch of space between the wheel wells
-Secure In-Bed Trunk with a volume of 241 litres
-Dual-Action Tailgate swings down or to the side and can support heavy loads
-Vehicle-to-vehicle crash compatibility and pedestrian safety designs

Athletic Stance with New Truck Proportions and One-Piece Billet Design

The exterior styling of the Ridgeline is built to convey a modern and strong appearance with honesty toward the vehicle's performance and Honda's unique 21st century pickup truck style. Designed to appear as if it were carved out of a single block of steel, the billet construction styling concept emphasizes "strength" and is evident in the seamless one-piece construction from the cab to the bed (most trucks have separate cabs and beds with a large gap between each section). Details like the integrated bumpers, window shapes and body panel indents blend with the general trajectory of the vehicle's lines to further build on symmetry associated with billet construction. The end result is a pickup truck with proportions built around an athletic stance with short front and rear overhangs, a dominating grille connected to a long and expansive hood with details like large door handles and large side mirrors delivering on traditional truck-functional styling cues.

Now in it's third year, Ridgeline's muscular exterior has been freshened most notably in its front and rear styling.

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Honda Canada