The thing automotive journalists don’t understand... or can’t convey, is why they think the Ridgeline is so much better than the competition. It’s not cheaper, it’s not more fuel efficient, it’s not safer, it can’t tow more, the bed isn’t bigger, it’s not easier to park, it doesn’t come with more standard features...

I just noticed it doesn't even have a dumb plastic cover over the engine.  I wonder if that's a clue just how much Toyota raised the white flag here.

OMG, this thing makes me so sad inside.  The absolute nothingness of it all is actually a bit frightening.

the insurer is not allowed to charge you more to cover windshields

Their blue is beautiful to.

This comment would have been 10,000 times better if you hadn’t started it with “So???”

Ah, the o-xide is strong with this one.

Landing “butt first” can result in serious spine damage. You could also end up going in awkwardly and striking part of your head. No belly flops.

Honestly if Jalopnik turns into a site about insane people fixing ridiculous money holes I’m all in.

I for one am happy to have two writers with similar tendencies.

EV owner here. EVs are still very dependent on nightly charging. If you don’t have a way to charge overnight (or at work), EV is going to be a HUGE pain in the ass. Still, some people want to be “part of the future” and get EVs against better judgement. Those are the type of folks that go back to ICE. EV is still the…

Take a gander at Electrify America map. Entire states without a single charger. Drive an EV in rural America and you are F’d.

Also, the study ended in 2018. There have been many more options for electric charging since then, with higher-end apartment buildings, office buildings, and shopping malls putting in chargers.

Seriously. I read this somewhere last week and people returning to ICE were apartment dwellers, which is the majority of Californians, which is sort-of mentioned here.

I still find it a bit depressing that there are auto enthusiasts who think this way, at all. I’d thought the multifaceted weirdnesses of Jalopnik—the Radwood specials, the NPCP polls, the design foci, the apparent appreciation—meant people’d evolved out of the whole “if it’s not hard, fast, and loud, it’s for the…

being a gearhead manifests itself differently for everyone, but for myself and several of my friends it all started with being able to identify every single last vehicle on the road by heart as a kid. this type of mis-badging would have driven seven-year-old me bonkers.

Just because it isn’t traditionally lust worthy doesn’t mean it can’t be enthusiast fodder. There are more than a few people that would love nothing more than to buy a small 2 seat convertible but because they have a life and other people to consider, wind up in crossovers and SUVs.

Isn’t Chevy’s network simply “chargers that all cars other than Tesla can use”?

I thought we were “buying into the future” when we spent $35,000 on a Tesla Solar system with more than 40 panels. The experience was ghastly, absolutely disappointing and even after the panels were online we weren’t able to net-meter (be compensated for our excess production) for more than a year thanks to Tesla’s…

It really is the perfect commuter car.  We have other vehicles for longer trips, but for commuting duties, it’s amazing.