Manufacturing Industry
1st Honda pickup has room to stow award.
Plastics News, November, 2005 by Miel, Rhoda
Byline: Rhoda Miel For months leading up to January's introduction of Honda Motor Co. Ltd.'s first pickup truck, the Ridgeline, plastics industry insiders knew the automaker was looking at composites for the bed. But even minutes before its debut at Detroit's North American International Auto Show, executives of the Tokyo-based automaker promised they still had something new to reveal.
That new concept - a lockable trunk integrated into the sheet molding compound bed - won Honda the Society of Plastics Engineers Automotive Division's grand award for the most innovative use of plastics during a Nov. 16 ceremony in Livonia. The trunk, molded along with the rest of the SMC bed by Meridian Automotive Systems Inc., allows Ridgeline drivers to store golf bags,...
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