I did a road trip last week about 250 miles and I averaged 27.5 mpg between 70-80 mph . I traded my Tacoma for the Ridgeline and it’s amazing how much better the Ridgeline is for daily driving.
I have an F159 but am leaning toward a Ridgeline to replace it after 11 years. Whenever I mention that to people that are body-on-frame=truck guys I know, I ask them first if they think the Land Rover Defender or Road Ranger or Jeep Grand Cherokee are real trucks. They are always surprised these well known off roaders are all unibody. It helps stave off all the negative comments before they start. Another is when I point out that the payload on a Tacoma TRD Pro I test drove was 995 and the Ridgeline Sport I was looking at was 1500. Which is the real truck?
I guess that would make the guy who brags about grabbing women by the genitals and expresses a desire to date one's own daughter and gets held judicially liable in tort for the sexual violation of a defenceless woman utterly indispensable?
The biggest problem with the ridgeline….it’s essentially like our 2012 pilot. Yes, a lot has changed, and I do like the 3.5l engine in our pilot. It’s been great, but, I don’t want the exact same mpg numbers from 12 years ago in a new truck I’m likely to keep for 10 plus years. I need at minimum 25mpg combined to get my interest. Gas isn’t going to be cheaper in the future, the only way I can future proof my investment is to buy better at each interval. I like the truck, but not willing to buy one as is.
I am driving a Maverick with off-road Tremor package...not too many trucks with 4-wheel drive and locking differentials for less than $35K. Did pretty good in the dirt....drives like a truck to me.
It’s a truck. A good truck. It’s all the truck 3/4 of suburbia actually needs; people who buy big trucks just so they can drive a truck and don’t actually use it as a truck are posers.
@@gavingreen3475 So if you have two trucks and they are the exact same other than one has a flat bed and the other has a box bed, is one a truck and the other isn't?
