2017
Honda Ridgeline Baja Race Truck
Honda took the wraps off
its Ridgeline Baja Race Truck, crucially a sign of things to come next
year when its second stab at the pickup truck market, the 2017 Ridgeline, is
released.
This
machine, however, is destined for the SCORE Baja 1000 driven by Jeff Proctor,
with the Honda Performance Division heralding its return to truck racing.
Developed
by the HPD wing, the company says it's powered by a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged
V6 with at least 550 horsepower. The Ridgeline race truck gets a tube-frame
racing chassis, according to Honda, but the production version will be a
unibody model similar to the previous model. That engine, likely sans turbos,
is destined for the 2017 Ridgeline.
Honda
says we can even expect to see a similar front, side, bed and roof on the
production truck, signaling the next-gen Ridgeline is going to stick very
closely to the proven pickup truck format in this country and searching for
more success than its oddball predecessor ever received.
