{"id":43951,"date":"2015-12-18T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/honda-accelerates-sweeping-light-truck-makeover-with-new-ridgeline-pickup-set-for-global-debut-at-the-2016-north-american-international-auto-show\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:36:03","slug":"honda-acelera-renovacion-radical-de-la-camioneta-liviana-con-la-nueva-camioneta-ridgeline-lista-para-su-estreno-mundial-en-la-feria-internacional-del-automovil-de-norteamerica-de-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/honda-acelera-renovacion-radical-de-la-camioneta-liviana-con-la-nueva-camioneta-ridgeline-lista-para-su-estreno-mundial-en-la-feria-internacional-del-automovil-de-norteamerica-de-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda Accelerates Sweeping Light Truck Makeover with New Ridgeline Pickup Set for Global Debut at the 2016 North American International Auto Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">TORRANCE, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 18, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Honda will challenge conventional thinking in the midsize pickup segment with the return of the Honda Ridgeline truck, set to make its world debut at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in <span class=\"xn-location\">Detroit<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Monday, January 11<\/span> at <span class=\"xn-chron\">1:15 p.m. EST<\/span>. \u00a0Designed, developed and manufactured in America, the all-new Ridgeline is the fourth new or significantly refreshed light truck model introduced by Honda in the past 18 months and will hit roads nationwide in the first half of next year. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg1a5aleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg1a5aleft\" title=\"Honda Logo.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Honda Logo.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20140415\/73520LOGO \"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We developed this new Honda Ridgeline to offer something new and fundamentally better suited to the way many buyers use their truck,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Jeff Conrad<\/span>, senior vice president and general manager of the Honda Division. &#8220;Ridgeline will deliver everything you&#8217;d expect in a Honda from incredible packaging and fuel-efficiency to top safety technologies and innovative, segment-first features.\u00a0 We&#8217;re honored to once again debut the Ridgeline in <span class=\"xn-location\">Detroit<\/span> at the North American International Auto Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Honda began the complete remake of its <span id=\"spanHghlt3590\">light-truck<\/span> lineup in the fall of 2014 with the freshened 2015 Honda CR-V, America&#8217;s best selling SUV. Earlier this year, Honda launched the all-new HR-V crossover, gateway to the Honda truck lineup, and the third generation of its popular Pilot three-row SUV. In 2016, Honda will continue the strengthening of its <span id=\"spanHghlt0416\">light-truck<\/span> family of vehicles with the new Ridgeline and a fully redesigned Odyssey minivan.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Calendar year 2015 sales of Honda light trucks are up 11.8 percent to 599,507 vehicles through the end of November and are on track to set a new all-time sales record for the brand, beating the previous best of 602,123 units in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Like the first generation Ridgeline, which also debuted at NAIAS in 2005, the all-new Ridgeline was designed and developed by Honda R&amp;D Americas, Inc., in its <span class=\"xn-location\">Torrance<\/span>, Californ<span id=\"spanHghltc24e\">ia <\/span>design studio and <span class=\"xn-location\">Raymond, Ohio<\/span>, research and development center. The Ridgeline and its engine will be produced[i] by Honda Manufacturing of <span class=\"xn-location\">Alabama<\/span>, Inc., in <span class=\"xn-location\">Lincoln, Alabama<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the press conference live at Honda&#8217;s YouTube channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Honda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">youtube.com\/user\/Honda<\/a> or media website, <a href=\"http:\/\/hondanews.com\/channels\/ridgeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hondanews.com\/channels\/ridgeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Honda<br \/><\/b>Honda offers a complete lineup of Honda cars, trucks and service with a network of more than 1,000 Honda dealerships within <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>. Eight Honda auto plants in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span>, including four in the U.S., have the capacity to produce 1.92 million automobiles each year. In 2014, more than 97 percent of the Honda and Acura automobiles sold in the U.S. were produced in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span> using domestic and globally sourced parts.<\/p>\n<p>[i] Using domestic and globally sourced parts<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20140415\/73520LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20140415\/73520LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">TORRANCE, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 18, 2015<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Honda will challenge conventional thinking in the midsize pickup segment with the return of the Honda Ridgeline truck, set to make its world debut at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in <span class=\"xn-location\">Detroit<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Monday, January 11<\/span> at <span class=\"xn-chron\">1:15 p.m. EST<\/span>. \u00a0Designed, developed and manufactured in America, the all-new Ridgeline is the fourth new or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automotriz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}