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<b><strong>Honda Partners with Mitsubishi to Build Its First Body-on-Frame Pickup Truck</strong></b>

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<b><strong>Honda Partners with Mitsubishi to Build Its First Body-on-Frame Pickup Truck</strong></b>

The Mitsubishi Triton will underpin a new Honda pickup in the Southeast Asia market.

Honda’s very first four-wheeled vehicle was a pickup truck, the T360 kei truck built for its home market in 1963. Since then, the H badge hasn’t been seen on many products with an exposed cargo bed, although the Ridgeline, introduced in the early 2000s, was an innovative product that worked excellently for light-duty use. Now, however, Honda is coming out with a proper body-on-frame pickup.

Just not in North America. A new memorandum of understanding has been signed between Mitsubishi and Honda, with the stated intent of developing a Honda-badged pickup by 2028. Said pickup will be based on the current Mitsubishi Triton and sold in the Southeast Asia market: Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and so on.

Just how much Honda will be going into this new pickup, apart from the badge on the grille, remains to be seen. For comparison, the closely related Honda Prologue and Chevy Blazer EV shared a battery-based platform but zero exterior body panels, and they had all kinds of differences in interior appointments and software.

Currently, the Triton comes with two 2.4-liter engine options, one a basic naturally aspirated gasoline engine and the other a turbo-diesel with 201 horsepower and 347 pound-feet of torque. Honda could theoretically install a thriftier small-displacement turbocharged gasoline engine to differentiate its offering.

Or it could simply offer a badge-engineered Triton with a few cosmetic changes intended to broaden the Honda lineup in Southeast Asia.



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