by Jeremy
In the test of pickup truck beds, if steel is apples and aluminum is oranges, Honda wants you to know that composites are pineapples. Chevy recently performed a test in which its own Silverado was pitted against its most obvious competitor, the Ford F-150. A loader dropped over 800 pounds of landscaping blocks into the two truck beds, and Ford's aluminum bed ended up with more damage than Chevy's steel bed. Check that test out right here.
Honda apparently wasn't content to let Chevy throw stones alone. In a
new test, the Japanese automaker replicated the block-drop test using
its brand-new Ridgeline
truck, which features a composite bed. As you'll see in the video
above, there was very little damage to the high-strength plastic bed of
the Ridgeline after a similar load of landscaping blocks were dropped
from a loader.
Without being on hand at any of these tests, we can't say with any
degree of certainty that they match up in severity. But they all look
pretty similar, and this is actually a test that Honda performed in
front of journalists (ourselves included)
earlier this year. We visually inspected the composite bed of a
Ridgeline after a demonstration just like the one on video above, and
can confirm that there was basically no damage to Honda's truck. Chevy went an extra step by flinging a heavy toolbox into the Silverado and F-150; Honda didn't match that particular test.
Does any of this matter? That's up to truck buyers and owners to decide,
naturally, but we doubt anyone would actually dump a load like this
into their own truck. And it's also worth noting that a heavy-duty
spray-on bedliner would probably minimize damage to the metal surface
below, whether steel or aluminum. If nothing else, it's memorable
marketing.
Source;
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/06/12/2017-honda-ridgeline-pickup-truck-bed-test-video/
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