Honda ridgeline top safety pick with specific headlights if the honda ridgeline strikes you as a little different than the other vehicles in this segment that s because it is.
Full size truck roof safety.
While midsize trucks have long employed a rugged body on frame design the ridgeline rides on a unibody platform shared with the pilot and passport suvs.
The 2020 ram 1500 crew cab model with optional equipment was the first full size pickup truck to earn a 2019 top safety pick designation from the iihs.
Thanks to great engineering and added structural bracing.
In other words the roof must withstand a force of at least four times the vehicle s weight before the plate crushes the roof by five inches.
By clifford atiyeh mar 21 2019.
Others range from basic to superior.
Some ratings use a scale of poor to good.
The higher the number the better.
To qualify for 2020 top safety pick a vehicle must earn good ratings in the driver side and passenger side small overlap front moderate overlap front side roof strength and head restraint tests it also must earn an advanced or superior rating for front crash prevention both vehicle.
About the awards and ratings.
That means it earned a good rating in all.