Honda Ridgeline Pickup anyone?

[goeduck]

Both the new ranger and Colorado are said to have over 7,000 pound tow ratings and some configurations approaching 8k towing... much more than the Honda 5k

219 Ford Ranger will get a better Towing Capacity - 219 - 22 Best Trucks

That Ranger is going to be a hard one not to look into, being a Ford and all.

 

[strantor]

Question... is a Toyota Single Cab and Nissan Single Cab a real truck?

What about the Mazda, Mitsubishi, Luv and Courier trucks?

My first (running) vehicle was a 1984 Mazda B2000. I got it with 300,000 miles on it, beat the crap out of it for a couple years, and sold it still running like a top. I hauled loads that it had no business hauling and drove through some spots that guys with lifted trucks probably wouldn't try. I did it not because I felt the machine was the pinnacle of a workhorse, but because I didn't really care. It definitely tried, and I want to bestow the title of "honorary" truck on it, but nah, it wasn't a "real truck." Maybe "junior truck?" I don't know. I feel like it earned the title but at the end of the day I just can't call it something it isn't.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

I won’t own a ridgeline SUV. I found that when I see one on the road it actually angers me and has for 11 years.

I remember pulling into the fairgrounds to go to the fair, I had to park with the trucks (99 F150, 2wd, shortbed), I passed many ridgelines in the SUV section on my way to the truck section.

It annoys me when I hear about someone calling a ridgeline a truck.

Because I despise them so much I would never own one. If Honda made a truck like Toyota does, I would view them as trucks, I view the ridgeline as a open back SUV. I’ll stick with the Fords or GMCs, also won’t own a Chevy truck because I’m a Ford Guy first and Chevy guys are arse holes. But like GMC sierras lol.

 

[Streetcar]

Broke
What fair has parking by vehicle type. I have only seen areas set aside for vehicles with trailers

 

[newbury]

I don't think a vehicle can call itself a truck if a 4' wide plywood can't lay flat in the bed...

Honda was very careful to make sure the Ridgeline bed is wide enough for 4' wide sheet goods.

There was a time when any truck without an 8' bed was not considered a truck... times have changed and many trucks no longer have 8' beds.

So they raise the bed to be over the wheel well to fit a 4' wide sheet of plywood, how does that help? How long are the sheets of plywood you buy?

How many trucks with short beds will fit a sheet of plywood ABOVE the wheel wells?

I've a VW Sportwagen with a roof rack that fits a 4' wide sheet of plywood EIGHT FOOT LONG.

My Ford fits about 6 or so sheets of 3/4" x 4' x 8' BETWEEN THE WHEEL WELLS with the tailgate closed, above that it goes to 64"+ wide.

I view that marketing hype as Honda making an attempt to fool buyers and apparently it's working.

The diesel Transit Connect SHORT wheelbase wagon I'm buying fits 4x8 sheets of plywood above the wheel wells. (the cargo version fits plywood between the wheel wells)

 

[Code54]

Never drove one but been in one several times. Friend bought one and for his use it is perfect - get a small table, haul a few bags of mulch, few plants or bushes for their home. Rides very well, nice interior, good power. My friend doesn't tow anything and doesn't have the room for a trailer so a Ridgeline fits his families uses very well. The Honda reliability also helped sell it to him.

 

[Tractorable]

Here’s mine with 1500lbs of lime in the back. She was tail draggin but made it back from the co-op no problem....

 

[goeduck]

I remember pulling into the fairgrounds to go to the fair, I had to park with the trucks (99 F150, 2wd, shortbed), I passed many ridgelines in the SUV section on my way to the truck section.

Broke
What fair has parking by vehicle type. I have only seen areas set aside for vehicles with trailers

Such segregated parking would be new to me as well. What if someone pulled up in a VW Thing? :confused3: If anyone remembers those.

 

[ultrarunner]

I've got a Thing I restored about 25 years ago... Orange and all... have a top but never had it on. I call it my 4 door Pheaton… as it has 4 doors and no roll up windows.

I was reminded that the Federal Government determines the legal definition of a truck...

Anyone remember the Subaru Brat?

 

[Garandman]

The new generation of Ridgeline is selling well. The full size pickup are so immense and so unrefined compared to Crossovers that there was a niche. Colorado and Tacoma are also selling really well and Ford has reintroduced Ranger. You don稚 need a giant pickup to haul air back and forth to work.

In New England people buy them because with IRS they ride and handle much better than the body-on-frame SUVç—´ and trucks. They do much better on bumpy, icy hills.

When Chevrolet put out their BS ads* comparing their pickup bed to the Ford aluminum bed, Honda also responded.

* GM is using a lot of aluminum in their next generation pickup; the real people were actors; the toolbox they dropped into the Chevy appeared to be empty, etc.