Lots of people in this world are smart, talented, adamantly set in their ways and can't be reasoned with. All of them work for Honda. More than any other, this is the company that insists on building cars one size small, two cylinders short, and front-wheel-drive whenever possible, just to name some examples. The combined forces of consumer cries, media slams, and withering sales gets the occasional concession - we got an all-wheel-drive Acura RL last year - but the rest of the time, Honda will be Honda or die trying.Can you blame them? Whether because of or in spite of these methods, the products are doing just fine. Accords were outselling any other nameplate long before they grew up and got V6s while the Pilot is proving to be the spot-on approach to SUVs. Will this work at the next level? Honda's taking a whack at pickup trucks now, the segment where body-on-frame construction, heavy-duty axles, rear and 4-wheel-drive, and multiple bodies are mandatory to make a passing grade. Honda decided to skip all of the above.Insightful, ignorant, brave, suicidal - one prediction's as good as another. The only certainty is that a headstrong car company is charging into a segment contrary to everything it stands for, and the results promise to be interesting.