Reminds me of some of the trucks I see with Canadian plates towing campers on the highway.

 

 

Wow! I cant believe this thread the troll started is still going. Anywho...any real truck will always be full-frame. IMO the Ridgeline is just a very capable people-mover. Nothing more.

 

We really have not had a post like this in a while to **** off the natives.

 

Well, given the stellar reaction to this one, you can bet there will be more.

The rats know how to jerk this chain at will...

 

In regards to the old ford unibody, the sheet metal was a unibody style that still sat on a full ladder frame. I got one, (1964 i think) mercury m100. Yea MERCURY, we were lucky enough in Canada to get a full line of mercury pickups sold along side the f-series.

A fully unibody truck is too stupid an idea to even debate.

The Canadian towing his camper with a honda sounds like my neighbor. He tried to make it to Texas for winter holiday. ended up trading it off (with a cooked trans)on a f-150 somewhere in Nebraska!

ps. the 64 merc is for sale.

 

Nothing personal. Its just that one of the roads I drive everyday goes up to Montreal and I see all kinds of crazy stuff coming down here. Dodge Dakota's and Nissan Pathfinders with huge dual axle camper trailers, F150's with huge 5th wheel campers, etc. Some people just need to get bigger trucks.

 

You think you see crazy stuff?? I live in the prairies where we don't have so much as a gently incline for 1000km, so no one hooks up there electric brakes or abides by payload ratings, and they get away with it, untill they get into South Dakota or Alberta!

 

Found the 2012 Concept F-150. Appears they are going uni-body.

 

Saw a YouTube about a year or more ago video'd from the back seat of a Ridgeline. I think it belonged to one of the kids parents. They went flyin over this railroad crossing out in the country, where it wasn't flat but had a definite rise and fall to the crossing. They blew both of the airbags in the 2 guys faces. I can't imagine what that thing looked like underneath. Bet you a dime to a dollar it buckled those body panels.

 

That's okay - I didn't take it personal I kinda agree with ya, actually. But remember - you guys still come up here in July with ski racks & snowmobiles


MGD


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Oh yeah .. BTW ... looks like the GDR toilet is beginning the slide into self-destruction...

This is fer you, GDR Lurkers Oh WOW, look! No profanity required :LOL:

 

i think the op is simply trying to stir the pot but,

isnt a suburban and expedition a unibody and what are there tow ratings?


i pull a 26 ft TT with my avalanche, i have a trans cooler, stabilizing hitch and obviously brakes on the trailer, it pulls great. i wouldnt want anymore and would not dare try to do colorado. but it lives up to it 7200 rating.
took 4 , 4 to 5 hour one way trip last summer and averaged 9 mpg, zero problems other than the trans did get above 210 on a 98 degree day.

my vehicle is actually heavier than most 1/2 tons. i love the utinlity of a bed cover that can be romoved and tored easily and for the 90% of the time that i am not hauling, the ride is excellent.
realizing that it is a 07 model, it pulls a trailer better than my 01 f150, but i am sure an 07 f150 hauls as good or better than my avalanche.

 

Neither the Expedition or Suburban are unibody. Even your Avalanche is body on frame.

 

the ridgeline is a space frame design... that shows how smart these honda trolls really are

 

That and I am a soldier as well.