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Originally Posted by Vman455
Yeah, Honda already has the (small--less than 10% of Silverado sales, let alone Ram and F-150) FWD truck market cornered with the Ridgeline. 'Muricans wouldn't stand for it coming from one of the Big Three.
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The Ridgeline as far as I can tell isn't a particularly great truck. It doesn't get good fuel economy and people complain of poor brakes.
This isn't to say it's a horrible truck, but Honda had an opportunity to show us a new way to truck, and it wasn't compelling enough to be adopted by anyone else.
I think the first good implementation of a hybrid pickup will be a huge success and spur most trucks to adopt a hybrid platform. It doesn't make sense to have an enormous engine for the relatively short amount of time spent accelerating, and trucks throw a lot of energy away stopping.