Car and driver small truck rankings

Ridgeline number one..... You have lost your credibility



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id get a frontier before just about anything else on that list

 

Every Honda Ridgeline owner has probably fallen victim to vicious attacks in the comments section of YouTube and Facebook. To those who claim Ridgeline isn't a real truck because it comes standard with front-wheel drive, you should be quick to point out this 280-hp V-6 is the most fuel-efficient in its class, even in all-wheel-drive form. Its 5000-pound towing capacity falls short of the Chevy, sure; but it has the most rear cargo space in this segment. Detractors will be left speechless before the weatherproof in-bed cargo area, the only one in the segment. Besides, the Ridgeline has been a C/D 10Best Trucks winner three years in a row. What's more truck than that?

wtf is up with this reasoning?

 

No surprises there with Tacoma bringing up the rear, yet consistently a top seller and consistently among the top in holding it's resale value.
Tacoma never seems to get due respect from the media/rankings.

 

The Ridgeline is not a truck. It's a Pilot minus the covered cargo area, and the GM trucks have pretty terrible reliability ratings.

 

i thought it was more like an Odyssey with a bed.

 

I think the Odyssey and the Pilot share the same frame/drivetrain these days, but I could be wrong.

 

This comes up every year.

Car and driver are a bunch of quacks. Any idiot can make a list, that doesn’t mean it’s the best list.

 

To be fair car and driver lost all claim to objective ratings and became a corporate shill a looooong time ago. Hard pass.

 

"It's a great truck because we said so three years in a row! What's more truck than that?" Another thread dragging out this horse; I think the horse trotted itself out last time, but I digress.

Written by a combination of people who don't need/use trucks, hence their attraction to the civilized, car-like Ridgeline, combined with being used to tester vehicles and self-removed form the pain of out-of-warranty repairs and depreciation, hence their attraction to the bells and whistles of the Colorado. My rule when looking for a truck was 1. Not a Ridgeline, I literally just said I was looking for a truck and 2. Look around. What doe you see 10+ year-old examples of? Not a lot of midsize Chevy pickups running around, but a hell of a lotta Yotas.

 

I think the do it just to come here and read the thread every year.

 

The magazine is called Car and Driver... not sure why we're surprised they ranked a car as the best mid-size truck.

 

I can totally see the Ridge-line being number one on this list. It appeals more to the 60% freeway driver that just wants the convenience of a truck without needing it to be build like one. If Honda ever did a body on frame 4x4 setup, and maybe changing that god awful front design, It'd be a hell of a truck to compete with.

 

It’s like the newest oil change interval thread — vet your source and your author. Here’s the Bard in this case:

 

I mean they bother testing trucks and having a Car and Driver 10-Best Trucks list..


Let's talk about that for a second, how many trucks are out there? 10-Best would pretty much nab them all, would it not? Must be why they invite Jeeps, SUVs and the Ridgeline.

 

I have a different question. How many clicks did we just give C&D? How much advertising money did they just make off some stock photos and some paragraphs written in five minutes by a dude in jammies eating a bowl of chocolate frosted sugar bombs? Where’s the gnarly off-road magazine review that I can click instead? If I have to put money in these folks’ pockets, at least I can endorse someone who trashed a version of all these in the Rubicon or hauled some massive bales of hay or something. I want to convert the indignation/outrage apparatus into something cooler than the perfectly fine but not-Tacoma entity that is the Ridgeline. Can...can we do that?

 

He probably takes the subway to work. But writes top 10 list for trucks from youtube video reviews.

 

I mean, they didn't earn my click. I'm for it, bring it on! Also, chocolate frosted sugar bombs. I see you are also a man of culture.

Clearly he didn't watch Rob Motive. Did no one show him Rob Motive? The Tacoma would've won, dammit.

 

The Ridgeline is always ranked #1, but doesn't sell. The Tacoma is always ranked towards the bottom, yet it vastly outsells the competition.

It's the same with the new Rav4 - it's usually ranked as one of, if not the worst small SUV, yet it's the best selling non-truck on the road.

Maybe a lot of reviewers aren't in touch with what consumers actually want.

 

They just want so badly to dish on Toyota for some weird reason.