I agree. I don’t think that the big three would spend so much money trying to one up each other on power, capacity, MPGs, payload, and towing if people didn’t buy for perceived utility. My neighbor owns a Ridgeline and a full size pick up. The Ridgeline is for daily driving and the truck is for truck things. At least…

Honda Parts Department, cause if you drive it like they showed on the video you’ll need to replace some parts? I’m glad someone got the screen grab cause in the video it seriously looked like TRD to me.

I think the majority of people on this site would agree that vehicles (trucks, vans, boats, motorcycles, cars) are an emotional purchase. My wife has a minivan because feelings. And I have a GTI because feelings. If we didn’t buy what we liked we probably would be reading boringpracticalvehiclelopnik.

My 94 Cherokee put itself into failsafe mode. I was about 20 minutes from home when the alternator failed. The radio shut itself off, the electronic speedo stopped, the backlights on the dash went out, and the heater fan stopped. But all the exterior lights still worked. I made it to the top of my hill before it died.…

It took me a while to realize this about my old truck. We sold our old house and I had to tow it to the new house or get rid of it. I realized whatever money I dumped into it would be lost. I realized that I would rather have a nicer daily driver in my garage than fixing it up. I realized It’ll still be an eighties…

Young me really wanted a Cutlass Supreme so I went to go check one out. It was the body style that I liked. All those G body coupes still look good to me. After starting the car, chug, chug, pump the gas pedal, dies, attempt to restart again, don’t flood the engine, etc... I was kinda turned off. After driving it I…

How about a different already restored Cutlass Supreme. I can’t find it now but I saw one on Marketplace in Indiana with 36,000 miles for about $8000. I’m guessing that the Cutlass has some sort of sentimental value though.

Who cares where I am, as long as I remain productive. 

I kinda hate to admit but I’m thinking this is what the Ridgeline needs. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I do find this new “trucklike” appearance to be an improvement. That being said I still realize that our minivan still meets our needs better. The minivan can haul full 4x8 sheets of plywood and can tow…

Reading the article, I was excited. I like my GTI but competition is great. Then I was disappointed, not coming to the US. Then I realized I like my manual GTI so oh well.

I like the profile, I like the rear, I like the lights, but that grill...

On the one hand, shame on Mercedes. But on the other, I really don’t think that a manual is a must have of most Mercedes drivers.

Ha, next time a non-Jalop asks me about my car I'm going to tell them it has blue horsepower and orange ft-lbs of torque.

I keep forgetting about the eGolf until someone mentions the eGolf which then reminds me to check prices of eGolfs. 

The Volt was a great car but poorly marketed. I would love to see more companies go with this concept. A friend of my wife’s just bought a Pacifica Hybrid recently and doesn’t use any fuel on her daily travels.

That’s kinda what I was thinking. I like the idea of electric but I also sometimes need to drive further than electric will take me and want to be able to quickly get some dinosaur juice to get me to my destination. The Volt, Pacifica Hybrid, and the PHEV Prius all do this with an engine and electrical components…

To be honest so is my bicycle. 

Lol, it add a sense of strength. 

I thought the same when I saw the MPG and the bike inside. My GTI gets that mileage, fits my bike inside, costs about the same, and is a heck of a lot more fun to drive.

As someone who foolishly bought a brand new Journey when they came out and was once terminally stuck in it I agree. A set of Blizzaks and it went from a trash vehicle that was garbage in the winter back to just a trash vehicle.