They wildly underestimated the delusional commitment of the musketeers. Who knew a cult could grow so fast so easy? 

If that’s the goal we can quit now. Let this mf burn.

Out of curiosity, who do you think will surpass them as the world’s largest? Please don't say Tesla unless you're joking. 

At that point maybe vehicle emissions don’t matter anymore and we don’t even have to keep trying. I think there’s a non-zero tailpipe emission optimum level. So if we get all of the stuff that we can, and there’s a little bit left over - that may not matter at all. 

Fair guess that you’ve never been off road? The tundra is a better desert race truck. The tundra won the stock class Baja 1000, first try. The best the raptor has ever done in a bunch of attempts is last place. Not last place in class, literally the last car to cross the finish 40 seconds before the finish line…

The Odyssey is the same car as a Ridgeline. It has a 5k lb tow rating in the AWD model with the tow package.

Except... The raptor sucks in desert racing. It’s track record is terrible. If you want to win the Baja 1000 in a stock class truck, you probably want to start with the tundra

A minivan can haul 1500lbs and tow 5k lbs too. People buy trucks to either do truck things or for the image of doing truck things. The Ridgeline does nether very well. And that’s why people don’t buy them. They don’t have any truck credibility. I can see the argument that Honda built a trucklet for what many people…

Hmm. Not in my experience. My 2001 hd2500 w was a horrible pile of shit. Nether the transfer case or the Allison 1000 lasted to 100k miles. The front diff seized at 15k. The 8.1l burned at least 2 quarts per oil change since new. The crank position sensor in the gd bell housing? The absolute garbage leather interior.…

The Ridgeline doesn’t do truck things. It doesn’t tow, haul, or go off road very well. So my guess is that people who buy them have very little or no intention of doing those things often or ever. Or they are confused.

That’s not how the data works. All of the vehicles from every manufacturer are going through the same auction houses so they would all be subject to the same selection bias of it exists. Fewer Toyota’s go to the auction as a percentage of trade-ins because they are easier to sell and hold their value better than…

Maybe the S10s they sold in the south were different from the ones they sold everywhere else that sucked?

I suspect Ridgeline owners use the truck bed about as often as everyone else. As do the Subaru trucklet owners and will the Maverick owners. Truck buyers also have a sister model BOF SUV options they could choose. Except for the HD trucks. I can’t buy an SUV that I know of that’ll pull much north of 10k lbs.

A website called dashboard-light.com compiles it from all vehicles that pass through a major auction house and the condition reports for them. It has many makes and models, but not all of them. Some don’t have large enough sample size. It’s not a perfect data analysis, but it’s the best I’ve seen anywhere that is…

Your feet go where you need to go right? Not sure if shoes are too luxurious.

The owners manual says on page 264:

In a lot of years of owning a lot of cars - I’ve never once had an OEM head unit fail. Granted - I mostly own Toyotas/lexus and some Hondas in there and they are consistently a decade behind the times. But I’ve never had one fail ever. And a few have gone past the 20 year - 250k mile mark.

Subaru used to do the top of engine thing too.

Hmm.... I can think of a current model with a worse spare tire spot. Not only do you get to empty the bed and the storage bin, but you can’t haul or tow if you put the spare on. Because why should a trucklet have a full size spare? So you get to leave the cargo or trailer behind? (according to Honda you shouldn't haul…

Europe took a long time to do it. They’re slow AF. We could cut down our trees in a few decades if we put our minds to it.