Re:General Motors

Honda TRUCKS? You are kidding right? The Ridgeline can hardly be called a truck. It is after all based on car chassis just like their minivan LOL

mike hunt

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> the reason people love their honda is simple..high quality. honda has a >> reputation and they strongly keeping it going. their cars and now trucks >> will out run and take more of a beating and still run the same compared >> to general motors and especially ford.
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Mike Hunter
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That's not the question. The question: will people buy them? After all, most people don't take their trucks off road, except to park them.

Jeff

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Jeff

People certainly are not buying many of them GM, Ford and Chrysler all so more trucks in a month than Toyota sells in a year and more in one week then Honda LOL

mike hunt

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Mike Hunter

It takes years to get market share. And the two domestic automakers, Ford and GM, are losing market share every day. "With its manageable size, solid performance, carlike ride and handling and all-around quality, the Honda Ridgeline should be another successful market segment invasion for Honda."

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So what we have here is a small pickup truck that is competitive in people space, horsepower, towing, and hauling, and drives like a Honda. The Ridgeline probably won't galvanize hard-core F-150 buyers, but it looks appealing to those who care as much about carrying passengers as they do about hauling hay.
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Laugh all you want. Honda is laughing to the bank in the most profitable segments of the US auto market.

Jeff

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Jeff

It certain should ride like a Honda, it is after all an Accord. The Ridgeline is NOT a truck by any stretch of the imagination any more than is the Subaru station wagon with a box, that is not selling either One can haul hay or even post holes in a minivan LOL

mike hunt

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Mike Hunter

You should be able to get a lot of post holes in a minivan.

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bearman

Actually, it is a pilot.

Show us the statistics and data, including the trends in sales.

Jeff

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Jeff

Hyperbole will get you nowhere. GM, Ford and DC combined sold about

580,000 trucks in December. Honda sold 625,000 trucks in 2005. Toyota sold 971,000 trucks in 2005.
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Gordon McGrew

Don't forget to subtract the fleet sales from those big 3 total truck sales. After you do that, you basically have the (1) "I only buy American" owners, and (2) the owners lured by the steep roll backs in price and employee incentive programs. Hands down, Honda and Toyota have a much better product. It's amazing because Ford and GM have been building pickups since the "40s and you think they'd have got it right by now.

If you are in one of these two pre-mentioned categories, please take your comments about Ford, GM or Chrysler products elsewhere, because you will never convince a Honda or Toyota owner that the big 3's products are better.

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Bob Palmer

Don't need to, nor am I trying to, simply posting the fact that more buyers choose GM, Ford, Chrysler and even Toyota over Honda in 2005 when it came time to buy the vehicle THEY thought was better. Obviously you though Honda was better if that is what you bought . That is your privilege, just as it is for every other buyer but you are in a minority. Besides what difference does it make why one buys what they buy, it only maters that they did.

mike hunt

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Mike Hunter

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