
Compared with most pickup trucks on the market, the Ridgeline comes only in a one-size-fits-all configuration with 4 doors, seating for five and a five-foot-long cargo place. A distinctive characteristic of this cargo bed is a compact covered trunk inside. It usually is accessed via the tailgate, which both folds down, like other pickups, but also swings to the side for easier access.
Unibody construction means Ridgeline is the only pickup that doesn’t attach its body to a separate frame. It instead uses car-type engineering in which body and frame essentially are a single, lighter-weight unit. Honda reinforces the structure to make it roughly as rigid as a conventional compact pickup’s though...