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Honda Ridgeline - Honda's new crew cab pickup truck is based on the Honda Pilot platform. That means it's not a body-on-frame vehicle, that it has a four-wheel-independent suspension, and that it's got a V6 rather than a V8 under the hood.
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The Ridgeline's steel-reinforced composite bed is accessed via the pickup truck market's most innovative tailgate. Honda pays homage to station wagons of the 1970's by installing a tailgate that tilts down or swings out. This slick feature allows access to the bed without having to reach over the tailgate.
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The 2006 Honda Ridgeline represents a new generation of pickup truck 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. The exterior styling of the Ridgeline is built to convey a modern and strong appearance with honesty toward the vehicle's performance while introducing Honda's unique 21st century pickup truck style. As if carved out of a single block of steel, the billet construction styling concept emphasizes a new kind of pickup "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 Ridgeline rides on a ladder frame with unibody construction that is 93 percent unique to any Honda vehicle. Major components consist of a fully boxed ladder frame with reinforced deep channel construction and a full unibody structure integrated above the ladder frame. Supplemental components include a robust rear cabin panel and a bed with high strength steel cross members. This approach balances the rugged and durable traits of a traditional pickup truck with the excellent packaging, safety and performance advantages of a unibody frame.
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Heretofore, building a pickup truck has been a simple matter of constructing a ladder frame at the four corners of which wheels are attached. Then a small, bolted-on box hides the engine up front; a larger box serves as the cabin; and a third, open-topped box in back handles cargo. Trucks are basic, utilitarian, brawny.
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Its 5-speed automatic transmission, also unusual for the pickup truck class, is connected to all four wheels via a standard-issue fully automatic Variable Torque Management 4-Wheel Drive System (VTM-4WD), which is capable of transferring up to 70 percent of its available torque to the rear wheels if necessary.
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Certainly other manufacturers will have to look at the Ridgeline. Not working with preconceived ideas of what constitutes a pickup truck has enabled Honda to come up with refreshing new take on the entire category.
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