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You may think you wouldn't want to tow with 150 hp compared to 250 hp but do you want to drive around at 5500 rpm all day to get that 250 hp? Also I doubt many of those late 70s early 80s 305s haven't been "fixed" with better tune, exhaust, carb, and ignition and making about 250hp. If that wasn't enough they did make a stock 450hp El camino in 1970. I wouldn't do anything with one of those but sell it at auction!
Actually El Camino and Ridgeline sales numbers year to year are similar but the Camino carried better numbers for 24 years until it finally dropped to 15,000 in 87 and was dropped the next year with a limited production run. Honda dropped below 10,000 in 2011 and will be dropped for the 2015 year maybe brought back in 2016. Honda's best year was 50,000, while GM had 7 years better then that with a best of 72,000. That is in the US, I think they still make and sell some in Australia.
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