2027 Honda Ridgeline: What Is Actually Coming, and What New York Can Buy Now

Published August 12, 2026 · Last updated August 12, 2026 · Plaza Honda, 2740 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, serving all five boroughs

Honda has confirmed a third-generation Ridgeline is in development, and it has also confirmed that production of the current truck pauses later this year. That combination has real consequences for anyone shopping a midsize pickup anywhere in the five boroughs this fall. Here is what is documented, what is still guesswork, and how the truck on the lot right now reads to a driver who parks on the street.

What's changing on the 2027 Honda Ridgeline?

On July 23, 2026, American Honda confirmed development of the third-generation Ridgeline. The announcement was short on hardware and long on intent: the next truck is being styled at Honda's Southern California design studio, engineered at the Honda Auto Development Center in Ohio, and it will keep coming off the line at the Honda plant in Lincoln, Alabama, where the current Ridgeline is built alongside the Passport, Pilot and Odyssey.

Lance Woelfer, vice president of Auto Sales at American Honda, framed the next Ridgeline around two decades of building for recreational truck buyers rather than fleet buyers, and said the new one will gain more rugged design and capability. Honda released a single darkened teaser image and no specifications.

The line that matters most to shoppers is the one at the bottom of the release: production of the current 2026 Honda Ridgeline pauses later this year as Honda prepares for the new model.

One point worth stating plainly, because it circulates in garbled form: the Ridgeline is not moving anywhere. Honda's release says the third-generation truck will continue to be built exclusively at the Honda Alabama Auto Plant in Lincoln, the same line that builds the Passport, Pilot and Odyssey today. This is retooling time on an existing plant, not a factory relocation. As for why the changeover is happening now, industry reporting has pointed to tightening emissions requirements making a short-term update to the current truck uneconomical, but Honda has not given a reason, so treat that as reporting rather than a company position.

Industry watchers reading the same release expect the third-generation truck to keep the unibody architecture and independent rear suspension that make the Ridgeline drive like a large crossover, and many expect some form of electrification given where the rest of Honda's light-truck lineup has gone. None of that is confirmed. Honda has said "more rugged" and nothing further.

When is the 2027 Honda Ridgeline release date?

There is no announced on-sale date for a 2027 Honda Ridgeline, because Honda has not announced a 2027 Ridgeline. What the company has put on the record is a window for the generation after this one.

Practically, that means the trucks in dealer inventory this autumn are the last of this generation for a while. Once the pause takes effect, availability is whatever is already built and in the pipeline. If you have been waiting for a Ridgeline deal, the window where selection and incentives overlap is narrower than it looks.

We will update this page the moment Honda publishes 2027 or third-generation Ridgeline specifications, pricing or an on-sale date. If you want to be told rather than check, call us and we will flag your file.

Will the 2027 Honda Ridgeline cost more?

Nobody outside Honda can answer this with numbers yet, so here is the honest shape of it.

If a 2027 model year appears at all, it would almost certainly be a carryover of the current truck with a modest price adjustment, because that is what happens to a lineup entering a production pause. Carryover years rarely move much on the sticker.

The generational change is the one to plan around. When the third-generation Ridgeline arrives with the more rugged design Honda has promised, the base of the range typically moves up, and industry watchers generally expect a redesigned midsize pickup to open higher than the outgoing model rather than lower. New content costs money, and a truck positioned harder toward off-road capability tends to arrive with hardware that was optional before.

The counterweight for a shopper standing on Nostrand Avenue today: end-of-generation inventory is where manufacturer support usually concentrates. Check our current Honda offers before assuming waiting is the cheaper path.

Honda Ridgeline trim comparison

Four trims, all with standard i-VTM4 torque-vectoring all-wheel drive, all with the same 3.5-liter V6 and nine-speed automatic. There is no front-drive Ridgeline, no cab or bed configuration to choose, and no engine upgrade to price out. You are choosing equipment and tires, which is a refreshingly short conversation.

2026 model year figures. MSRP excludes tax, license, registration, options, premium colors and the $1,495 destination charge; the third column includes destination. Dealer prices may vary. EPA ratings are 2026 estimates for comparison purposes only; your mileage will vary. Honda has not published 2027 Ridgeline trims, pricing or EPA ratings.

Notice how flat the fuel economy is. Three of the four trims are rated identically, and the TrailSport gives up exactly one mpg combined for its all-terrain rubber. In the kind of driving most of this city does, that gap disappears into traffic.

Recent Honda Ridgeline news and awards

The current truck has had a strong run of recognition, which is worth knowing if you are weighing a last-of-generation purchase against waiting two years.

In April 2026, Cars.com named the Ridgeline a Best Value New Car in its 2026 Affordability Report, alongside the CR-V and Passport. That award weighs price against running costs rather than rewarding the cheapest sticker. A month earlier, in March 2026, U.S. News & World Report named the Ridgeline a Best Car for Families, putting it in company with the Accord, Accord Hybrid and Passport.

Honda also points out something no other pickup can claim: the Ridgeline is the only truck with consecutive top-ten overall finishes on the Cars.com American-Made Index in each of the last nine years. It leads every Honda product on that index. For a New York buyer who cares where their money lands, that is a concrete answer rather than a slogan.

2026 also marked twenty years since the first Ridgeline launched at the 2005 auto show. That first truck was the first pickup with unitized body construction and a steel-reinforced composite bed, and the nameplate has taken North American Truck of the Year twice, in 2006 and again in 2017.

What a Ridgeline actually solves for New Yorkers

Pickup reviews are written for people with a driveway, a boat ramp and a job site. That is not this market. Here is how the same truck reads when your week runs across the BQE, the Cross Bronx, the Long Island Expressway or the Staten Island Expressway, past a double-parked delivery van, and ends at a spot you have to back into.

The competitive case for New York is narrower and stronger than the national one. Most people here who want a truck do not need to tow twelve thousand pounds; they need five thousand pounds for a small boat out of Sheepshead Bay, City Island or Great Kills Harbor, or for a rented trailer, half-ton hauling capacity, secure storage because the vehicle lives outdoors, and a cabin that four adults can sit in through Cross Bronx or Van Wyck traffic without anyone complaining. The Ridgeline is engineered against exactly that list. Its rivals are engineered against a job site in Texas and then sold here anyway.

The second-row seat bottoms fold up against a flat floor, so tall items ride inside, locked and dry, which is not something a conventional midsize truck manages well. Honda Sensing driver-assist technology is standard, and its adaptive cruise handles stop-and-go without you riding the brake pedal from the Verrazzano to the Whitestone. Then on Saturday the same truck takes bikes, boards or a full campsite upstate. In a city where most households that own a vehicle own exactly one and ask everything of it, that range is the whole argument.

Cross-shop it in one afternoon

Plaza Honda is part of Plaza Auto Mall, a family-owned Nostrand Avenue group operating since 1975, with over 1,000 vehicles in stock across five new-car brands within a seven-minute walk. It is one stop for shoppers coming from Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan, the Bronx or Long Island, which is the point of driving out here rather than chasing four dealerships across three boroughs. The Ridgeline's closest rival on this block is the Hyundai Santa Cruz, the other unibody pickup in the segment, and it is a genuinely useful back-to-back drive because the two answer the same question differently.

If the open bed turns out to be a want rather than a need, walk the same lot and try a Toyota 4Runner, a Hyundai Santa Fe, a Toyota Highlander or a Hyundai Palisade. One trade appraisal covers all of them, one finance office, one afternoon.

If you want to feel what a traditional body-on-frame pickup does differently, Plaza Toyota is on the same block with Tacoma and Tacoma i-FORCE MAX and Tundra and Tundra i-FORCE MAX inventory, including the hybrid i-FORCE MAX powertrains. Drive one back to back against the Ridgeline and the difference in ride quality over city pavement is obvious within a block. Worth knowing before you go: those Toyota trucks carry free delivery within 500 miles, not 25, so a Tacoma or Tundra can reach you well beyond the metro area at no charge.

If the shortlist runs wider, Acura of Brooklyn and Plaza Kia are the same walk, and every multi-brand trade the group takes in lands on plazaautomall.com used inventory. Staying inside the Honda lineup? The 2027 Passport is built in the same Alabama plant and shares the TrailSport treatment, the 2027 Pilot adds a third row, the 2027 CR-V Hybrid is the fuel-economy answer, and the 2027 Odyssey is the honest choice if what you actually need is sliding doors.

We speak English, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Arabic, French, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Uzbek, Tajik, Turkish, Polish, Haitian Creole and beyond. Free delivery runs within 25 miles on Honda inventory, and out to 500 miles on the Toyota Tacoma and Tundra. Our service department handles pickup and drop-off across the entire NYC metro area, so a Ridgeline that lives on a street in Bay Ridge, Jackson Heights, Riverdale or New Dorp never has to cost you a workday.

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