Honda Ridgeline Pickup anyone?

[ultrarunner]

I think composite can be a good thing....

The Ridgeline is designed and manufactured in America... another plus for me.

With the gate down... 4x8 sheet goods slide right in... just like any other full size truck with a short bed...

The 5k towing limitations would be pushing it for me... I do have the larger trailers... don't use them much... but I do.

Of course there is the Super Duty in the family for effortless towing...

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

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

I was in a vocational school doing a presentation at the fairgrounds in the schools booth, I drove in the entrance I was told by my instructor and was instructed by a parking guy to park with the trucks further out, I pointed at the ridgelines and he responded that they are SUVs, disliked ridgelines ever since lol.

The people with booths get to park closer to the buildings than the visitors do, that’s where it was segregated.

 

[big bubba]

That and the avalanche is the ugliest truck I致e seen in my life. I wouldn稚 drive one if it was free.

doesn't come across as a "truck" in my book
way too much $ for that application. always considered it the worst of 2 worlds, imho

 

[goeduck]

doesn't come across as a "truck" in my book
way too much $ for that application. always considered it the worst of 2 worlds, imho

An Avalanche took up the last space next to the loading door at HD yesterday so I parked my F250 8 foot bed out in the regular lot. As I was huffing and puffing pushing my lumber and 3tab roofing up the parking lot slope, the guy walked out with his grocery bag of goodies and zoomed off. I have nothing against Avalances but parking in the close loading zone when you are going to get a grocery bag of things.... well that is just wrong. But I got my workout in :thumbsup:

 

[Code54]

An Avalanche took up the last space next to the loading door at HD yesterday so I parked my F250 8 foot bed out in the regular lot. As I was huffing and puffing pushing my lumber and 3tab roofing up the parking lot slope, the guy walked out with his grocery bag of goodies and zoomed off. I have nothing against Avalances but parking in the close loading zone when you are going to get a grocery bag of things.... well that is just wrong. But I got my workout in :thumbsup:

We have that happen here all the time. Im moving concrete and somebody parks at the dock in front of the pallets of concrete to walk out with a bag with two paintbrushes in it.... Really aggravates me!

 

[goeduck]

Dumping concrete blocks is a lot less impactful to the bed than rocks. The corners of the concrete blocks crush and crumble more so the most rock does. What happened to honest advertising?

 

[ultrarunner]

I've never abused a truck by dumping any rock are block... I have dump up to a yard of Sand or Gravel.

 

[straps57]

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 SUV痴 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.

The bed may have survived but I'm not too sure about the suspension..:laughing:

 

[Garandman]

The bed may have survived but I'm not too sure about the suspension..:laughing:

Load capacity is 1,400-1,500 lbs. IIRC the load was 830.

Ridgeline’s seem to do a superior job at hauling what most 150’s/1500’s haul: air. :laughing:

 

[goeduck]

Is there a decent review of the Ridgeline, Taco, Ranger, Colorado out there? Or is the Ranger too new?