Showdown

What was first the Ridgeline or the Avalanche? Both are hideous.

 

I rented a FX4 for a couple hundred miles. It feels like a car, the radio screen is smaller than an iPhone 5, and creaked a ton for only have a couple thousand miles. The motor makes lots of noise when you try to get somewhere quickly.. but I don’t think it’s faster than the v6.

You could lock the diff whenever though.

 

Ford Sport Track 2000
Avalanche 2001
Ridgeline 2005?

 

My local Ford dealer still has the same Ranger sitting on the lot closing in on 4 months, they also got another one a couple months ago and it's still sitting there too, no willing buyers lol.

 

Meanwhile, the only Gladiator my sucky Jeep dealer received got sold within a couple days, $10,000 markup and all!

As the saying goes, there’s a sucker born every minute...

 

I think Ranger is one of the more attractively styled midsize pickups on the outside.

But I found the interior disappointing, pricing out of whack...and I still haven’t drunk the EcoBoost Kool-Aid. Especially when Toyota, GM, Jeep, Nissan, and even Honda, still offer a proper V6.

I’m holding off for the Ranger Raptor supposed to appear in 2022.

 

jeezus christ imagine paying that much money for a first run chrysler product. i'll let them go through a few iterations and iron out the details before i even consider one.

 

I saw one in Wal-Mart parking lot yesterday. I thought it looked cheap even for Wal-Mart...

 

The ranger is just so bland. No other way to put it.

 

Saw a ranger the other day... wasn't impressed and was laughing to hard at the sliding rear window facing the bed. Could it be smaller please. It's as big as the head unit sceeen in our trucks.

 

4 cylinder turbo, no thank you. Dont want to have to replace it every 50k. Saw an episode of Car Fix and they had an F150 twin turbo in there with 60k and both turbos were shot.

 

High bedsides... Geigh.

 

Too generic and urban looking for my taste. I like my trucks looking rough and mean. No, no I am not compensating for anything, lol.

 

So before I bought my 2019 ORLB I was talking to a friend of mine about it. he suggested to look at the ranger. I saw one a couple days ago on the freeway with me and lets just say i am very happy that that I got my tacoma. it just does not look right to me personally. I really dont like the brake lights. they look way to big for a mid sized truck. just my opinion.

 

See Gladiators all over the greater Denver metro area. Also, all trims are, and have been, on sale and on the streets.

 

Gladiator gets a porthole

 

Do the Gladiator, Ranger, Ridgeline, or Colorado come in M. T.?

 

Gladiator does. Ridgeline doesn’t. Colorado depends on trim and engine configuration, but mostly not. Ranger IDK.

 

I got to see my first Gladiator in the wild. I didn't hate it.

But then again I had an H3T for six years so I am biased to liking ugly completely unreliable trucks. If only the engine options weren't garbage, the transmissions weren't garbage, it was at LEAST as quiet with road noise as my Tacoma, if the electronics in the Jeep weren't completely unreliable and if it wasn't entirely built by the famously unreliable FIAT AND incredibly unreliable Chrysler brands.....it MIGHT have a chance of being a decent vehicle, until you mention the nearly 50k (Canadian) STARTING price.
You're just going in to debt to make friends with your local tow truck drivers and rental companies.