I think you have this backward for most Ridgeline buyers.

It was over it’s limits. The 5000lbs rating is with only 2 passengers at 150lbs and minimal cargo - same for pilots, mdx etc.

The gist of my point is that, he used the car do to exactly what you said it can’t do, and it did it without issues, returning decent fuel economy all at the same time. People really like to…

Chicken or the egg. Is it Honda’s fault for not fully falling in line and thus trying to offer something a hint outside of the standard, or is it the general public’s fault for not being sheep? Given that “truck sales continue to rise”, I could see Honda making the (dare I say almost bold) decision to not…

I’d argue that making people happy is what building stuff or helping sick people or other “important stuff” is really for at the end of the day. People were probably pretty happy about that whole “these newfangled wheel-things make moving heavy shit a whole lot easier” situation. Or the “My grandma didn’t die of…

Neutral: I am still in bed, curled up in a little ball and still crying like a Justin Bieber fangirl/boy over the death of EVH.

There was indeed

Low frequencies travel farther but are harder to pick up over background noise. Think of the difference in ambient sound on the ocean (especially in fog) versus a city.

Don’t be thinking small. Think BIG. Think Continental. Think New Yorker. Think Delta 88. Tbink about all those smooth-riding malaise-yachts with 150 horsepower lumps. Imagine doubling or tripling the power of one of those things and gliding along in silent splendor...

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Stay tuned. I’ve agreed to buy an electric-swapped Grom. It’s not a Zero, but it should be pretty quick. Allegedly it’s geared for 110. 

As a former CT90 (trail 90) owner, I am saving my pennies for the trail 125.

Yeah, good question. I wanted to provide more context there. I’ve heard just about every car audio system that’s been released since I started reviewing cars in 2012, I have a pretty decent amount of experience in some fancy recording studios and have demoed some truly incredible home set-ups. I’m not a big audiophile…

What Transformers movie was that from?

Meh, what do you expect? Change for the sake of change....

20 across Iowa is awesome.  The West side is basically brand new concrete.  That route cut at least an hour off the trip to my grandparents compared to 30.

The interstates are the worst way to see the US unless time is the most important factor. If you want a little bit of everything and a mostly central route, I’d suggest US Highway 6, from Bishop, CA to Cape Cod (and you could start or end at the old terminus of Long Beach, CA). From 1936 to 1964, it was the longest…

I posted on this as well. Yes, powering the trailer axles and coordinating with stability/traction control would be amazing.

A different approach; do a PHEV, but use a turbine engine powered by biofuel as a generator. Turbines are well suited for a charging-type workload that’s buffered by a battery from my understanding (I’m a physicist, not an engineer), and as long as the biofuel is grown sustainably (a big if, but doable) it can be done…

It wouldn’t necessarily need to talk with the vehicle’s ECU. It would be simple enough to make a powered trailer that always tries to “catch up” with the tow vehicle using a strain gauge in the hitch as its only input. Like a bi-directional electric surge brake setup.

Why not have the trailer powered by the batteries it’s storing? In wheel motors and some logic to match the speed of the tow vehicle. They don’t have to be powerful, you would still use the tow vehicle to get it up to speed, it could just assist to reduce the strain on the tow vehicle over long distances.