1st post: 4Runner vs. Pilot

[slowginjoe]

Re: That Ridgeline is so ugly........

Uuggghhh! that Ridgeline is so ugly it would make a train jump off its tracks and take a dirt road.

That has got to be the second ugliest vehicle around. The Pontiac Aztec is the Whoopie Goldberg of cars. The Ridgeline's front end is the Tom Petty of front ends.

It's a shrunken mini-me to the Avalanche......

to call the Ridgeline a truck just because it has a closed boxed frame and locking rear diffs is like saying Roseanne Barr is just like Paris Hilton because they have the same type of female anatomy.......just the thought of that makes me want to lose my lunch......

:lmao: let's call it the ugly truckling then!

 

[Koz]

I've heard the opposite. Minivans 3rd row is farther away from the rear of the vehicle, in SUV's they are closer to the rear and people are more suseptible to be hit by or hit the rear parts of the vehicle.

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toybox,

I think you and boston_kevin are talking about 2 different things. Kevin is talking about the bumpers not making contact because of a height difference. This is why the law has changed where all SUV/light truck will have to lower their bumpers to be the same height as a car. This will be a real challenge for the manufactures that make vehicle to go off-road. I think the manufactures have been discreetly lowering the height of their vehicles to meet this requirement. The 4th gen 4Runner lost some ground clearance.

Koz

 

[toybox]

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toybox,

I think you and boston_kevin are talking about 2 different things. Kevin is talking about the bumpers not making contact because of a height difference. This is why the law has changed where all SUV/light truck will have to lower their bumpers to be the same height as a car. This will be a real challenge for the manufactures that make vehicle to go off-road. I think the manufactures have been discreetly lowering the height of their vehicles to meet this requirement. The 4th gen 4Runner lost some ground clearance.

Koz

True, but the main point was third row seat safety. I guess it all depends on what you are being rear ended by. If bumpers meet I would say the van is safer, if they don't meet I guess it's a toss-up.