At least this is what Motor Trend magazine claimed last week. When Honda released a message on it's blog about the rumours of the demise of it's Ridgeline truck, they wrote " the Ridgeline has a significant role in the Honda range and it is expected that it will be so in the foreseeable future." It seems that the "foreseeable future" stops in September 2014, according to a recent report from Ward's Auto. They predict that Honda will stop production of the Ridgeline in September 2014, with a new model launched in 2016, after a two year hiatus. The Honda Ridgeline, built in Alabama, was supposed to remain in production until the spring of 2016, when a new generation would take over. It is now expected that the new Ridgeline will enter production in the second quarter of 2016. Honda has not returned requests for clarification of the claims made by the famous American magazine.

Honda is revising its Pilot for 2023 and today it previewed what’s coming with a first image ahead of the official reveal. We don’t yet know when that reveal will come, or even other details about the model, other than that it will feature a TrailSport version. That’s what’s seen, from a distance, in the new image.

We test drove the 2022 Honda Pilot in Touring trim, this as we continue to await the inevitable redesign of an SUV whose aging is now impossible to ignore. The fact that, with a few exceptions, its main rivals are taking quick turns getting renewed makes this a bit of a rush for Honda.

Thanks to photos taken in Japan, we may have just learned how powerful the new 2023 Honda Civic Type R is. When the model was unveiled last week, Honda only said it would be more powerful than the current model.