Look at how much design language Ford took from Jaguar before selling them off.  That Jaguar grill showed up on almost every Ford car for a decade or more.

The end of time will be when Google harnesses a googol of webpages.

I needed a truck, so i got one that fits in my garage. Temps where i live vary from -30F to 120F, so garages are a godsend. They also help your vehicle (and battery and tires and windshield wipers) last much longer and keep up resale value.

EPA needs to re-write the CAFE so that it stops rewarding the large vehicles.

Translation: “Any durn fool can build an electric truck.”

The Ridgeline already rides and drives better than an $80k luxury pickup. If Honda added some more sound deadening material and softened up their suspension to match the paltry payloads of the $80k trucks, they’d have a true luxury truck with a limousine ride.

Why not take advantage of the EV concept and make the bed height lower so it is more usable (i know, nobody uses the bed of a truck anymore) by getting rid of the Hotchkiss setup and placing a motor at each wheel. Stack the batteries vertically in the bed sides, and lower the cargo bay.

He’s probably thinking about that scene in Ford vs Ferrari where the (Le Mans) team is lamenting that their competition is faster in the pits because they are using a NASCAR crew.

True, IIHS can’t mandate anything, but they are pretty good at getting the car mfrs to pay attention to safety standards, whether through direct competition via crash testing, or swaying public opinion to drive manufacturing changes. And yes, they do rate headlights, but they don’t seem to be keeping up with the game.

The conspiracy-theorist in me says that the Big3 are behind the bad headlights in an effort to goad more people into buying high-riding trucks and SUVs. More profit for the Big3 and less blindness for the high-riders.

Be careful with AT tires. The spacing in the tread is often too great to make a snow tire. You want small spaces in the tread so that they will hold snow. Snow on snow makes the best traction, not rubber on snow. Look for AT tires that have small spaces and siping between the lugs.

The Altimax Arctics are actually Hakkapelittas that are a generation or two older.

The future ain’t what it used to be.

Yes, they need to make a smaller mid-size truck! The Dakota stood apart from the crowd originally because it was the ONLY mid-size truck. Now, we have a plethora of meh mid-size trucks, so Ram needs to stand out with a SMALLER mid-size truck. I used to own a ‘92 Dakota and it was the perfect size.

Wife & i did get a pickup truck last month. In our defense, we had been limping along without one for 18 years, having to beg and borrow whenever we needed one, and put off many projects due to lack of one, as well as paying for deliveries. Have been carefully researching and shopping all trucks since 2014 and got a…

Not arrogance, just experience and education combined with analytics.

I paid $31,800 for my AWD RTL last month, which included a couple nice accesssories. If you check the Ridgeline forum, there have been a number of people picking up AWD Sport Ridgelines for $27k and $28k.

I am an analytical, by nature and by my trade. I’ve been thoroughly researching mid-size trucks since 2014. I can analyze the fuelly numbers and why they are what they are. For example, the global Ranger economy numbers likely come from countries where speed limits are lower, fuel prices are higher and people tend to…

The 2019 AWD Ridgeline gets 25mpg on the highway. Granted, the 2020 dipped to 24mpg HWY because it uses the 10AT instead of the 6AT. The 6AT was able to stay in top gear more often in the EPA mpg tests, whereas the 10AT is geared higher and will drop to a lower gear in those same EPA tests. On the flip side, it did…

I drive a Ridgeline. I also drive a Colorado WT at work over the same roads, doing the same work, at the same speeds. The Ridgeline does way better on MPG. Did a 80mph trip down the interstate last weekend and got 24mpg, hand-calculated, with no wind. Oh, and my Ridgeline weighs more than the Colorado WT.