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you should able to get a low low price... no one buys them!!!
Just like the rangers!! no one is buying them!!
they want to get ride of the lot!! But Sport Trac and Ranger can't do other companies do...
with Blistein shocks..or rear lock differential
I was looking to buy a tacoma... but I need to buy a house instead before i get one i guess..
Man i just wish i make more money!
Anybody still cross-shopping these?
http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/miscellaneous-general-honda-ridgeline-- discussions/21863-my-ridgeline-saved-my-life-2.html
Brad
May I ask why you don't want one?
Not many "Midsize" Trucks left, but they picked the Ridgeline as their first choice. Frontier as second choice.
Interestingly enough they said, the Tacoma is NOT RECOMMENDED.
Cramped cabin, low seating position, noisy engine, spongy brakes, and "jiggle" ride were among their complaints. Only adjustment on the seats is forward and rearward and the seat back tilts. The did say the 4WD models are very good at off road work.
Read somewhere that 95+% of P/U drivers never encounter more than a dirt road for their adventures.
We tow a camper in the 3000# range, and the '09 Ridgeline handles it fine.
Some of that involves the Smokey Mountains with 7% and 8% grades and it handles that way better than I thought it would. Actually maintained the 55 mph speed, although it had dropped back to 2nd gear and 5500RPM for the nearly 3 miles. Same thing coming back. Have done that on 3 different occasions.
Sitting around campfires and talking with those towing similar size and weight of campers with Tacoma, Frontiers, and V6 Dakotas, it seems they pretty much experienced the same. Even those with full size P/Us with small V8s said the engines had to "WORK" on those grades.
RL is rated to Tow 5K and Tacoma is rated at 6K. Personally, if my camper weighed 6K I would be towing with a V8.
Most of the folks I've talked with said they have never driven a Ridgeline, "because they don't LOOK like real P/U trucks".
I personally don't care for the "Look" of the RL behind the rear side door, but I can't see that when I'm driving it.
In a recent trip from Atlanta to Indiana with the bed full of stuff, and the cruise doing most of the work we got 23.9 MPG driving the posted speed limits. Returning with an empty bed at posted speed limits and cruise, it was 25 mpg. Maybe a 4WD Tacoma will equal that, and maybe not.
The wife has a '09 Toyota Rav4 Sport. We have used it on trips, but we both prefer to use the Ridgeline. Although the Rav4 gets 5-6 better MPG. The RL is simply more comfortable, to us.
One poster said the RL looks odd with the camper shell on the back, and I agree. But I've had those shells on P/Us in the past, and getting to stuff next to the cab is difficult. Rather than do that I prefer an SUV.
Getting to stuff next to the cab is a lot easier with the RL tailgate swung to the side than leaning over a traditional tailgate in the open position.
Likely true that the RL only makes up 1% of Honda sales. WHY?
THEY DON'T ADVERTISE THEM! If Honda would offer some kind of incentive to get folks to actually drive a RL, I believe the sales would increase tremendously.
My understanding is that the Ridgeline will not be offered for 2014. But will return in 2015, with many issues addressed.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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The base Tacoma 4wd is approximately $26,500. The Ridgeline front wheel drive has come in at three thousand dollars more. I would prefer a Honda as I think their engineering and quality is the very top. Given some of the paint and rust issues with my Celica, I would have liked to put in a protest vote against Toyota as well. But the pricing and overall quality of the Tacoma means that it will probably be the next vehicle.