2006 Honda Ridgeline RTL S/R Review - Autochannel (press release)
I thought it would be kinda fun to test a modern pick-up truck, after all I used to sell International Harvester trucks back in the early sixties and believed that a truck is a truck is a truck. Before we get too far into this journalistic tome I would like to keep my youngish readers from leaving this read and go Googling International Harvester Trucks. I picked up the 2006 Honda Ridgeline at the Denver airport, and as always the fine folks from Specialty Transport had everything arranged and my test ride ready shinning and filled-up with fuel for this truck review. My first impression was even though the Ridgeline has 4 doors and seating for 5, “it’s big”, it really is a truck, just how big. I whipped out my trusty ruler and found that the Ridgeline stands 70” high and that although the cargo bed measured 60", it can still carry a 4’x8’ plywood panel in the box with the tail gate down/open. A unique benefit from the out of the box thinking engineers in Marysville Ohio, is the Ridgeline’s lockable trunk placed into the floor of the cargo bed. Honda measured the space as 8. 5 cubic feet which is as big as many car trunks, and passes the “it holds two sets of golf clubs” criteria, not bad for “extra space”. if you live in a part of the country where snow is a regular feature of the winter, then the “trunk” will be buried beneath snow and ice for a good part of the year. The interior of the Ridgeline Pick-up was finished Car and SUV like. Source: www.theautochannel.com
