2026 Honda Ridgeline

Name: 2026 Honda Ridgeline
Brand: Honda

Release Date: Fall 2025

Estimated Price: $42,000

You'll like the 2026 Honda Ridgeline if you desire a comfortable ride quality and a roomy interior from your midsize truck. It can't tow or haul as much as rival trucks, but it's much nicer to drive.Read full review

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2026 Honda Ridgeline Review

Pros

Smooth ride and secure handling for a pickup
Versatile two-way tailgate and large lockable in-bed trunk
Spacious crew cab is comfortable

Cons

Lacks low-range gearing and underbody clearance of typical trucks
Sensitive driver aids are distracting
Less towing capacity than top rivals

What's new

A new Ridgeline likely won't appear this year
Part of the second Ridgeline generation introduced for 2017

Overview

Written by automotive expert Mark Takahashi

8/18/2025

In the world of midsize pickups, the Honda Ridgeline is a bit of an oddball, but mostly in a good way. Unlike others in this class — which employ traditional body-on-frame construction — the Ridgeline actually rides on a crossover SUV platform. It's based on the same mechanical underpinnings as the Honda Pilot and Passport and shares a V6 engine and similar all-wheel-drive system. The carlike backbone means the Ridgeline is more comfortable than its competitors, and it's a perfectly capable truck as long as your off-road and towing ambitions aren't too extreme. (If you're more interested in pushing limits, its more truck-y rivals might be more appropriate.) With recent updates to the Pilot and Passport, an updated Ridgeline is likely on the horizon, but probably not for the 2026 model year.

Edmunds spotlight: Clever and comfortable

The Ridgeline takes the basic truck formula and throws in typical Honda cleverness. The in-bed trunk is thoughtful and useful, making it easy to lock away items out of sight yet keeping them easily accessible thanks to a tailgate that either folds down or swings to the side. The bed itself is quite wide, and the Ridgeline can haul more than you think. Inside, there's tons of space, and since it's based on a family-oriented SUV, the Ridgeline is comfortable around town. When the Ridgeline is redesigned, we'd expect yet another variation on the front-end styling theme introduced by the Pilot and ruggedized by the Passport. We'd also suspect that the Ridgeline will bring some of the Passport's off-road tricks to the table, including the increased ride height, skid plates, and special off-road all-wheel-drive modes.

Competitors to consider

The Ridgeline has an even tougher job today thanks to better-than-ever competitors. The newest Ford Ranger is our Edmunds Top Rated Truck for 2025, but the recently redesigned Toyota Tacoma and Chevrolet Colorado are also very strong competitors.

What’s it like to live with?

As one of the few midsize pickup trucks at the time, we thought adding a 2017 Honda Ridgeline to the Edmunds One-Year Road Test fleet was a great idea. Over the course of a year and 20,000 miles, we got a more complete ownership experience, and while there have been many changes since then, many of our observations still apply.

Edmunds Expert Rating

edmunds TESTED

Driven, tested, rated by automotive expert Jonathan Elfalan

Good

7.9

out of 10

We drove the Honda Ridgeline on our test track and on real roads. Our Edmunds team conducts rigorous independent vehicle testing, driving 500,000 miles a year.

Performance

7.5/10

How does the Ridgeline drive? If you want a truck that doesn't drive like a truck, you should really consider the Honda Ridgeline. It steers accurately and feels relatively agile and confident in turns, even when driving over bumps. This is where the Ridgeline's SUV-like unibody design shines through.

Honda's V6 engine holds up well against the newer competition's turbocharged four-cylinder engine offerings, At our test track, a Ridgeline TrailSport accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in 7.0 seconds, which is a relatively quick time for a midsize truck. We did notice the transmission can be a bit slow to downshift when you want it.

The TrailSport version infuses a bit more off-road ability in the Ridgeline. Underbody oil pan protection has been added alongside an off-road-tuned suspension and all-terrain tires. But low-range gearing and true off-road wheel articulation that allow other 4WD pickups to venture into rockier territory are not things the TrailSport provides.

Comfort

8.5/10

How comfortable is the Ridgeline? The Ridgeline has a smooth ride for a pickup. It easily absorbs bumps in the road. The front seats have thin-yet-supportive padding that provides good long-distance comfort. The cushions are broad enough to accommodate larger folks, and effective side bolsters help keep drivers with narrower frames from sliding around.

Noise and vibration are kept to a minimum in the cabin. The exception is the surprisingly playful and grunty V6, which you'll hear when you mat the gas. A tri-zone automatic climate control system is standard across the range, which is rare, and it cools and heats the cabin well.

Interior

8.5/10

How’s the interior? The Ridgeline is friendly to the driver and passengers alike. It's easy to find a comfortable driving position, and getting in and out is a breeze thanks to wide opening doors and lots of legroom. Cabin passenger space is also unusually generous for a truck.

From the driver's seat, visibility is expansive and the squared-off hood helps you get a better sense of where the front of the truck is. The large rear window helps you see items that are in the bed or cars behind you.

Technology

7/10

How’s the tech? The Ridgeline's 9-inch touchscreen looks small compared to what you'll find in the Ford Ranger and Toyota Tacoma. Thankfully it's easy to use. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration is standard and includes wireless connectivity. The Ridgeline's stereo is pretty mediocre, and settings need to be biased to the rear cabin so passengers can hear the music.

Almost all of the latest driver aids are standard, including adaptive cruise control, forward collision mitigation and lane keeping assistance. We'd award the Ridgeline a higher score in this category if some of the systems weren't so sensitive. Also, the adaptive cruise only works at speeds greater than 20 mph, limiting its usefulness. Most other systems can work in slow-moving traffic and bring you to a complete stop.

Towing and Storage

8.5/10

How are the towing and storage? The Ridgeline's bed is the only one in the class that can hold 4-foot-wide plywood sheets without them perching on top of the wheelwells. Payload is pretty decent at 1,583 pounds in the right trim. That's enough to haul large loads of lumber or gravel, or possibly a pair of motorcycles in the bed. The Ridgeline still has that cool lockable in-bed trunk and a trick two-way tailgate that opens down or sideways.

Maximum towing capacity is 5,000 pounds when properly equipped. Other trucks can pull more but we consider 5,000 pounds a decent amount. If you're really into towing, you probably want to get a full-size truck anyway.

Inside, the Ridgeline blows the competition away. Many small cubbies, a massive center console bin, and a big, flat storage area underneath the rear seats mean you might never have too much stuff. The Ridgeline's roomy rear seat also makes it easy to install child safety seats.

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Fuel Economy

7.5/10

How’s the fuel economy? Even though the Ridgeline has a V6 engine, it mostly lines up with competitors with turbocharged four-cylinders. We tested the Ridgeline TrailSport. The EPA estimates that it will get 20 mpg combined, 1 mpg lower than the other Ridgeline trims. In real-world driving, our test Ridgeline averaged right about 20 mpg. This result indicates the EPA numbers should be fairly accurate.

Value

7.5/10

Is the Ridgeline a good value? You get a lot for your money with a Ridgeline. Even the base Sport trim has a nearly full suite of standard driver assist features, along with smartphone integration and tri-zone automatic climate control. Prices at the top end of the Ridgeline lineup are no longer quite as steep compared to current segment offerings, plus you get solid build quality and a more family-friendly cabin than you'd typically see in a truck.

Warranty coverage in the Ridgeline is average with basic coverage and roadside assistance for three years/36,000 miles and powertrain coverage for five years/60,000 miles.

Wildcard

7.5/10

The Ridgeline has always been the kind of pickup truck buyers would be quite happy with if they focused on need instead of want. In terms of driving fun, there are two ways to think about the Ridgeline. The first way is to be disappointed that, even in TrailSport trim, it can't crawl up rocks like a Gladiator Rubicon. The second way is to see it as way more fun to drive every day thanks to class-leading handling and steering dynamics without losing the capability for some light dirt work as well. We choose the latter.

Despite all of its talents, there's no denying how dated the Ridgeline feels inside compared to its midsize truck rivals. We're ready to see what Honda has in store for the next generation.

2026 Honda Ridgeline trim level differences

[Editor's note: The following unofficial information is based on last year's Ridgeline. We expect the 2026 model will have a similar lineup and we'll update this section once we have complete information.] The Honda Ridgeline is a midsize crew-cab pickup offered in four trim levels: Sport, RTL, TrailSport and Black Edition. All Ridgelines are powered by a 3.5-liter V6 engine (280 horsepower and 262 lb-ft of torque) mated to a nine-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive. It's offered in a single configuration with four doors and a 5-foot-4-inch bed.

Which Ridgeline trim does Edmunds recommend?

Honda hasn't released official information on the 2026 Ridgeline as of this writing. We'll update our recommendation if anything changes, but based on last year's Ridgeline, we make the unusual suggestion of springing for the top Black Edition trim. For a rather reasonable markup, you get some desirable features such as ventilated front seats, heated rear seats and a premium audio system.