It's called Death Valley for a reason, with triple-digit daytime temperatures and punishing dirt roads. Can the 2017 Honda Ridgeline survive Edmunds' torture test in this brutal landscape? Our truck experts put Honda's car-based pickup through its vibrating paces on a washboard dirt road, along with the off-road package-equipped Toyota Tacoma and Nissan Titan XD. Watch to see which truck was the last one standing. You'll be surprised.
Edmunds Death Valley Shock Test Time Jump
0:01 Introduction
0:27 "It's called Death Valley for a reason."
1:23 New shock absorbers on the 2017 Honda Ridgeline
2:03 Meet the trucks: 2017 Honda Ridgeline, 2016 Toyota Tacoma and 2016 Nissan Titan XD
2:26 "If you have a four-wheel-drive truck ... then this road is nothing."
3:26 Examining Toyota Tacoma and Honda Ridgeline shocks
4:20 Examining Nissan Titan's shocks
5:13 "I like to test vehicles at full pressure."
5:54 At the Racetrack Playa
6:51 "It's been a long day on a brutal road."
7:48 Final thoughts
Read the full story: edmu.in/2tr2tLi
Have questions for our editors? Leave them in the comments.
20 авг 2024