My 1996 Ranger that I traded in towards my 2019 Ranger had over 300K miles.
No, you can tell the difference on an econobox. The ridgeline is roughly in line with the features and quality of the other trucks, so it's roughly in line with the price. The only way to dramatically lower the price would be to go full ghetto on the interior and start ripping out features. (They probably can't do some of the other things that are normal to hit a lower price, like having a cheap low-end engine, etc., because they aren't doing enough volume to justify a bunch of options like that.)
Yeah, people interested in buying a ridgeline seem to buy a ridgeline already. People who aren't interested in buying a ridgeline probably will never buy a ridgeline, either because it won't meet their needs or because they hate it for aesthetic reasons. It isn't clear to me how changing the price would fundamentally change that. If they go down-market they'd probably pick up some bargain shoppers but lose some people over whatever they cut to hit the new price target.
Heh, it's like I'm having the same conversation in two different threads. Honda seems reasonably happy to sell a certain number of ridgelines at a certain price. They're never going to be the segment leader, but they make enough money modifying a shared platform to justify the production. Why would they dramatically cut their margins to sell more (potentially losing money?) just to bring themselves into a less distant 5th place? As it stands they sold 9% more in 2019 than they did in 2018, so they seem healthy. I don't see them doubling their sales at any price, meaning they won't even hit frontier numbers. Doesn't it make more sense for them to take the money they're making selling to the people who want that product than killing that product to maybe climb the leaderboard with some other product?
Don't worry, this is far from the first time a thread on this forum has been completely derailed just because the Ridgeline got brought up. Crazy how polarizing that vehicle is.
Just imagine the remarks if you were to call it a Ranchero!
That is way to funny I may need to use that next time might be fun.
I guess Ridgeline and Taco's really get things going around here
More so the Tacoma's. There are a lot of us here who came from them (3rd gen) who were less than satisfied.I guess Ridgeline and Taco's really get things going around here
I believe Honda would agree - your go to there webpages and there is a group for SUV’s and another for minivan’s & truck
I usually don't agree with this. Once you've paid big bucks for something, you tend to bias your opinion of it... I was surprised by the Edmunds thing too. It was all the comparison ratings by people who had not bought yet that interested me.
