Honda Ridgeline

And, yes, that would go very good.

How about a new Honda Ridgeline?

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But you've got almost $7,000 worth of savings on those right now.

You've got a great selection of Honda Ridgelines.

They are, without a doubt, one of the most comfortable trucks that you're ever going to sit in.

A pickup truck under $25,000.

The 2020 Honda Ridgeline price range $19,600 to $23,925.

Reliability is above average.

Compared with traditional midsize pickups, the Ridgeline is refined and innovative.

They've had a lot of ASEAN cars, but not a pickup truck.

But they do build and sell pickup trucks in North America called the Ridgeline.

Oh, okay.

But the Ridgeline is sitting on a car platform, which is monocoque.

So, on a ladder frame, a ladder frame means a very hard leaf frame for pickup trucks, which is what Ford has, Toyota has, Nissan has, Isuzu has, Mitsubishi, but not Honda.

So, Subaru... is another car company which doesn't have a pickup truck.

Past that, I don't really care.

We've had a Honda Ridgeline of about 14, 15 years of age these last three years or so, and it still runs, I think, great.

I drove it down to Washington, D.C. this weekend, didn't have any problems, didn't have any cares or concerns.

The deal is, though, people who went to auto mechanics school and who are responsible for every year or two or however often you do that, issuing you a vehicle inspection, they say, yeah, that's not going to pass inspection.

But so the sticker runs out in another week or so.

And so my wife says, well, we got to get another truck.

And so she today went and test drove a newer Honda Ridgeline.

And she test drove a Ford, is it Ranger or Maverick? It's like a small short bed pickup truck with four doors.

Guy pops the trunk.

Just so happens it's a Honda Ridgeline, and that will come into play later.

But these trucks have cooler in the back that is kind of hidden, and the way these guys did it was actually very clever.

will put a four-wheeler on top of it and no ramps to take it off so if they got stopped either you know the gig is up and you know the cops actually know what's in there or you know no one is unloading a four-wheeler without ramps on a hunch on the side of the highway so you can't the search is only going so far right so they were able to they had another car they unloaded this thing they popped the Pop the lid on the cooler and start walking out with hockey bags and hockey bag, hockey bag.

It's got pretty good underbody protection.

But what excites me about this, as this is a truck podcast ultimately, is we know that Honda is going through and changing up a lot about the Ridgeline.

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yes and and hopefully well there's more news that we can discuss on this front with honda but i'm with you a hundred percent if they're doing this much if they're paying this much attention to the passport i'm hoping they are putting a lot of this updates into the future ridgeline as well

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on a spectrum of, you know, very rugged to not very rugged, The Passport still leans to the less rugged end of the spectrum because they're really trying to maintain those on-road driving characteristics.

I think it'd be cool if they went a little further in the other direction and allowed for some more compromise, especially with the Ridgeline.

But we'll see, you know, when an updated Ridgeline comes out, if that's the direction they go.