A Racing Pickup — Honda Ridgeline

Why was this surprising, you ask?

Pilot Baja Chase Vehicle – a specially tuned 2016 Honda Pilot, in desert racing livery, which will operate as a support vehicle in Honda’s SCORE Baja 1000 campaign. A Ridgeline also competed in the 2008 race and won its class.

Honda’s history of competing in Baja is long, dominated primarily by motorcycle racing, with a total of 17 victories.

Honda will introduce an all-new, second-generation Ridgeline truck in the first half of 2016.

“Our unibody approach made the truck more comfortable on the road”, he said. As for the body design, it was realized by Honda R&D, the same people in charge of developing the new-generation Ridgeline. One can safely expect the motor to make it to the production model albeit without the turbos.

When the new model is available, the Honda Ridgeline is going to be larger than other pickups.

A number of images of the 2017 Honda Ridgeline have recently been leaked onto the internet and it looks to be massive in comparison to the last Ridgeline. Instead, we’re being teased with the design of the new Ridgeline via a race-prepped version dubbed the Ridgeline Desert Race Truck.

As promised, Honda has unveiled its Ridgeline Baja Race Truck at SEMA in Las Vegas, providing a glimpse at styling cues that will be used for the production pickup. The Honda exhibit also showcased a multifaceted display of personalized Honda cars, SUVs, powersports products and two- and four-wheeled racing machines.

The truck is powered by a pumped up 3.5-litre V6 turbocharged petrol engine which is expected to pack in at least 550 PS of power! Elements such as the front fascia, hood, roof and bed closely resemble the upcoming production model.

The Ridgeline Baja race truck is being developed by HPD in partnership with the Proctor Racing Group. The engine shares about as much with a stock Ridgeline as the rest of the truck: only the crankshaft, block and cylinder heads are carried over from the stock engine.