Have you recently wondered, “What would the face of the redesigned Civic look like plastered on a desert-ready racing truck?” Honda has your number. This is the new Ridgeline.
Except it’s not.
The Japanese automaker announced its return to the Baja 1000 at SEMA on Tuesday and revealed the machine that will carry HPD’s HR35TT race engine — a 550 horsepower, a 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 — across the finish line.
Underneath its lightweight body, the Ridgeline Baja Race Truck is exactly that — a tube-frame racing truck with nearly nothing in common with the vehicle with which it shares its name. However, that twin-turbo V-6 does have the same block, cylinder heads and crankshaft as the engine found in the future Honda pickup.
The next-generation Ridgeline will debut in the first half of 2016, Honda said in the release.
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I like it. Honda always seemed to put together great racing and track cars and yet remain very conservative wih their current consumer market lineup (though it seems to work for them). I’m not going to hold my hopes up for that next gen S2000 or even for the Civic type R to come stateside any time soon.
I love those racing trucks. They make brodozers look so silly.
Poor Civic. If it ain’t slammed, it’s jacked up…. Boring old me thinks the new Civic looks plenty good enough at standard ride height.
Hopefully this means a sign that we’ll get a “real” Ridgeline