Head up display in every official manual I have read, but always called a heads up display or just HUD. - 2o years in avionics

From everything I’ve heard, Ridgelines are fantastic trucks that achieve everything a typical truck owner needs out of their vehicle. They’re also smaller, look something like an Odyssey with a bed, drive like a car, and are lower to the ground than your typical truck and will in no way, shape or form intimidate a car…

Any of the no-frills cars sold in the US for under $20k aren’t built here, so the chicken tax makes that a non-starter.

Honestly I was expecting this:

The best part is how absolutely useless they are for hauling anything in the beds. With those over-sized cabins eating into the bed as manufacturers try to position them for family comfort. I was buying lumber the other day, shoving a bunch of lumber into the back of my Forester, just some six and 8ft boards and all…

i know boomer is the insult du jour but folks that have an infatuation with Back to the Future are X’ers or millenials. We’ll need to take responsibility for that one.

A hand impact driver for getting stubborn screws loose. I use one made by Lisle. Great for removing all sorts of stuck fasteners, but especially the countersunk phillips head screws that hold brake rotors on many Japanese cars.

Tighten all the other lugnuts down a little more first as well to take a little tension off the keyed nut.

Agreed! Also awesome for wiring, especially if you’re having to replace the entire harness and need to find the OEM mounting-points.

Everybody needs a couple pair of these babies. Hemostats are good for much more than just clamping blood vessels!

I had a friend who said this until we were in going down the road in my car with the windows down and no music playing and suddenly a loud Harley passed us.

That has never been true.

I think it depends on local geography & climate. To some folk, “offroad” means rocks, drier ground, and the grip is usually good enough that they can rely on low-range. To other folk, especially in Northern Europe, “offroad” tends to mean slippery mud and occasionally snow/ice; if you can easily wheelspin in a normal 1…

I think that this is a difficult position to hold in a time where everybody feels they need to be on message, or somebody will hold up any weakness in a position as kryptonite to the entire message.

Wyoming and South Dakota are absolute pleasures to drive in. I travel through those states annually and it’s a breeze. The people actually know how to drive and give you plenty of space. Compared to, say, Minnesota.... Complete night and day difference.

I think the distinction is arbitrary, and worse actually inhibits the evolution of vehicles, especially SUVs. By defining SUVs as needing to be body-on-frame or some other specific feature, it means manufacturers stick to that feature regardless of whether it’s necessary or even good for designing the best possible…

I agree, there is no line. One can argue that the SUV was the original “crossover” between a passenger vehicle with the underpinnings of an offroad truck. Too much dicking about with words is what people do

I don’t draw the line, because there’s no point and it doesn’t matter. A TRUE SPORTS CAR HAS BLAH BLAH BLAH. 

Honda is right, trucks are by and large an emotional purchase these days. But the spec sheet does matter. Lots of buyers are buying “capability”, whether they plan to actually use it or not. The perception of capability suggested by the design of the vehicle is certainly a factor, but the numbers do matter. The…

No, but they may peel off some Tacoma buyers who don’t want to pay over sticker and don’t need something that rides that rough.