grasscatcher2
Grasscatcher2
grasscatcher2

This. My parents chose a Dodge Hornet R/T PHEV over the Rav4 Prime due to the price over MSRP and wait time for the Rav4 Prime. Sure, the Toyota is likely to have lower repair costs long term, but the price over MSRP could wash that out.

<places a Rokon on the table and leans back>

I love when truck bros talk about how the Honda Ridgeline isn’t a real truck when it’s exactly the amount of truck just about 90% of truck owners actually “need.” And in reality the bed is only 3 inches shorter than the 5'7" bed of most crewcab 1500s or the 5'6 bed of crewcab F-150s.

For people like me it’s a much better fit, have to have a rear seat for family, I don’t haul oversized things often so the short bed can handle anything I would do, and I’d probably have one if the market hadn’t gone stupid and made them ridiculously scarce and pricey. It’ll probably end up being another CUV for me whe

Hey those Merrills are my daily drivers at work...I walk easily 10k steps every day and have worn Merrills almost exclusively for the last 20 years. Tried a few others...none are as comfortable or as long-wearing.

Those Keens are sweet! They’re a perfect match for my leather, belt mounted phone holster.

Competitive analysis is nothing new and it isn’t necessarily a sign of incompetence on behalf of the one doing the teardown. Automakers have been doing teardowns of competitors’ cars for decades. I would not be surprised if Hyundai, Toyota and VW were also tearing down Civics, and Honda was tearing down Corollas and

+1 on the Blizzaks. I had them on an 03 Accord an that car was unstoppable! I got so cocky, I tried to drive over a 4 foot deep snow drift that went for about 15 feet! I drove the car on top of the dift! I had to dig the snow from under the car until the tires touched the ground and I drove though! As long as I had

The correct answer is: any car you like as long as you install a good set of winter tires.

I’ve plowed snow in a slammed S195 with Blizzaks and outside of the low ride height causing problems it was one of the best cars I’ve driven through a Wisconsin winter. Right now my daily is a Doug Nash 84 C4 Corvette with some

N/A Mazda CX-5. Sure, they’re a little slow, but there’s not much to go wrong. I have a N/A Mazda 6 with almost 140k on it, and the only thing that’s broken has been the serpentine belt tensioner.

Just stick with what I already own—my ‘69 Charger:

I rarely have to use quick chargers, and I don’t know what they cost in other states, but they are still much cheaper than gas for me (at least for full ICE cars, haven’t worked it out for hybrids).

Well said. I see charging locations broken into 3 categories:

I learned my lesson years ago after years of driving thru winter with AS tires on my Jetta. I slid down the driveway backwards with 2" of snow, and pirouetted into the front yard barely missing a transformer. The next day I put winter tires on the front and never looked back. Since then, winters in southern CT have

Thought the exact same. When I think of a great garage setup, I think of a combo of cars that combined tick all the boxes of practicality and fun with minimal number/cost of total vehicles. This case seems like one that double ticks the fun boxes, and another that single-ticks the fun boxes and does ok at some of the

This. It’s rather counterintuitive, but chunky mud treads look as though they ought to do great in snow, and generally aren’t. (Tread design as well as compound plays into it.).

I tell people snow tires are called snow tires for a reason. And mud tires are called mud tires. People think one tread will magically work everywhere. All I know is that almost every CT I’ve seen on the road is rolling on all-seasons with the “concept” cut on the sides for their rim covers.

Let’s wait until we see the actual crash tests before jumping to any conclusions. Tesla is known for its safety and being at the leaderboard of crash tests, so to design a vehicle that would perform poorly on safety tests doesn’t really align.

But BiffMagnetude is talking about the Ridgeway and not the Ridgeline ;D . Seems very familiar with this Ridgeway and so I’ll have to believe him.

After two Tacomas and their horrible seating and cramped cabins, I’ll take my Ridgeline hands down. I don’t tow and I don’t bro. I’m a carpenter and a mountain biker and it

Having had two Tacomas, I can tell you that my current Ridgeline beats it hands down in the way that I use it. (Carpenter and mountain biker, not an offroader).

That said, I’ll have to look into this “Ridgeway” that you mentioned several times in your analysis ;D