Old VS New - Is the 2020 Honda Ridgeline Truly Better than the Old One? + 0-60 MPH Drag Race!

you know and the truck that offers a trunk and then definitely a unique proposition on this ridge so the other thing we can talk about while we're back here is the trailer that we have. a two inch receiver hitch on our new

ridgeline

, just like the old

ridgeline

, but here's my big complaint. Well here in

2020

you have one pin light connection and that's it for the second generation ridge line, they removed that four pin light connection that looks like this. It's strange to me considering the crest can only tow five thousand pounds so it usually only tows small trailers and yet now they only give you a seven pin on the old truck, you see it right there, seven and four, she It's a little rusty but it's there but it's there and it's a strange decision for me uh like I said the towing capacity didn't change five thousand pounds on the old one and five thousand pounds on the new one, yet they got rid of those four pins, okay, everyone.

Let's put this 08 crest to the test. Now we're going to do 0 to 60 runs in both trucks and see what we're talking about, so pull over, let the GPS calibrate, come on, baby, come on, baby. your zero, come on, let's go and ready to

race

, come on, it's actually not bad off the line, at what rpm does the Vtec turn on? About four thousand or so, yeah, you hear it get louder and there's a hundred, so it was a hundred kilometers. an hour in 10.7 seconds and I don't know, my gut told me it actually felt pretty good, what do you think about the power of this truck?

I once had a problem, I still want more, not that I've towed a lot of weight with it or anything, but in traffic and day to day driving, I've certainly never been bogged down by power with the five speeds, I really felt it out of line, however the shift in the second felt like it also falls off, so I'm very curious to see how the nine feels good. Now we're on the new ridge and we're going to do our 0 to 60 run, so we stop here and stop. I have it. in sport mode this truck has sport so you'll see it will turn to zero four where it's zero and you're off to the

race

. still one is still looking for zero still looking for zero looking for your GPS.

I'm moving towards get closer to the glass, okay and ready to race, here we go, that stuck me in my seat, well, hello, okay, yeah, quick shift 44 56. and getting there, getting there, go to vtech 102. okay, so zooming in on the numbers here, what? was our zero to 100 uh, zero to 100 was 8.5 seconds and I will tell you the shifts were much shorter the first second and the third because this is a nine speed, you could feel them exploding much faster than, oh yeah there was no delay like in My truck, yes Rangeline absolutely well done, now let's go inside and needless to say a lot has changed in 12 years so this is the interior of our

2020

Ridgeline black edition.

This thing is fully loaded and has all the options you can see. A very good button. transmission down there, you get the infotainment screen, you get this big center console with the sliding door and all that storage space with push button start, you get a screen up here and the driver information center down here on the left of the steering wheel, there's still a collection of buttons for several different things, but overall it's a pretty nice interior because it's the black edition, everything is blacked out, plus you have the stitching on these seats and let me quickly show you the back seat as well because the seat rear actually It hasn't changed much, these are still Honda's magic seats, so the bottom of them rises up like this, totally out of the way and you can see it fits this air conditioner quite well.

Now we'll bend to match the one on the truck and Matt. Sitting there first, although I want to take a look at your back seat, here Matt, exactly the same seat design, yes, exactly the same, you pull the handle, she lifts, that guy locks, that doesn't lock, no, he doesn't likes to block. Yeah, that could be a product of it being an oak, yeah, that's fair, but still you know what I love, the fact that you have all the floor space, it's pretty flat, except for that plastic channel, but Compared to other trucks, you know there really isn't much.

There are a lot of things down there that get in the way. Now we'll pull up to the front and you can show us what's going on up here in this beauty. You thought your sliding panel was cool. I have a complete sliding console. Nice, opens well. I rode this thing, I didn't know anything about it because I hadn't spent much time in the older trucks, but this thing is a Swiss Army knife. This spreads. I have this other panel here that can be moved back and forth, revealing additional storage. everywhere else this guy has a little hidden pouch and then of course this slides forward.

You're giving me a little extra space, but if you put everything away, you have tons of space down here to put things and I mean, this thing was just one of these things, I brought it home and in the first few days I'm driving around and I'm like, oh, oh, there's another bag, oh, there's another bag, oh, there's another bag, which is something in the places where it is. Uh, this is where my wife has started storing all of her things. um it's just collected stuff and I mean there's little things here that I like having all these options.

I did a little plumbing work at my mother-in-law's cabin the other night. It has tons of places for everything and actually, let me mention that there is more storage here on hand than in the new model, they sure got rid of a lot of stuff, got rid of this, got rid of this. Full sliding console. I've seen a lot of guys putting baskets in here because you can clean underneath and have an extra place to put more stuff. And as far as the design goes here, I mean, I like the column shifter versus the nine. -Speed ​​button because that also consumes a lot of space down here, which I have collected in the storage.

Sure, um, of course, it's pretty much a basic radio. You still have an auxiliary report on any USB on this truck or if it is too old for USB. I mean, I made my own gotcha, no, no, it didn't come. There was a choice. Mine is an ex l so I'm one up on base but this year's touring option had a dongle for a usb connector which was. Actually, I have it a little loose here and it also comes with the navigator and a six-disc changer. I only got one record because I broke it. You know, once again, it comes back to the price of the truck and then the other thing.

I just want to mention it because we should talk about how well the interior was maintained just in terms of the seats, nothing really pulls, the material looks good, the previous owner had dogs, it's okay and I spent quite a bit of time in here, uh, cleaning. and vacuuming and doing everything I could, but no matter what I did, there's still some dog hair in here and I mean it doesn't bother me, I don't dislike dogs by any means, no, but actually that's it. a

better

test and that's what I'm saying, like consider even with dogs, nothing is that dirty, nothing is broken, I mean a couple stains here and there, but I mean one is from me, when I spilled my own coffee yesterday so I can't be mad about that, not bad at all One last feature, we need to talk about the ridge line swing tailgate and of course the Match Truck has it too so Matt opens that suction cup and then tell us what you think about it, it's definitely one of the most notable carryovers from the old truck to the new truck because it's your truck bed as everyone knows it and it only has one cable so I personally would be a little wary of the excessive weight, but that means you get the barn door style and I I mean, it's one of these features that I know when I first came out, I looked at it and said, well, that's dumb, I'm never going to use that, but then I had the trunk and I thought, oh my gosh, I can actually walk there. and I can go right in and I'm not too far back here lying on the thing trying to get to it, yeah, yeah, and I mean, I think you know, based on the fact that Ram copied them a little bit and shows you that.

This was a little ahead of its time, it's a really cool feature and I'm glad they didn't get rid of it in the new truck. Yes I agree. On the other hand, you know that Honda wasn't the first to have a swing. but I still think as the trucks go it's a really smart thing to do okay everyone this is what this is about first of all thanks to Matt for showing his mohawk today he's behind the camera now there's no problem, wait until we compete with my VTEC against the big guys. green, there you go, so I think the big takeaway from looking at the ridgeline from first to second generation is that the truck didn't really change much, they brought it into the modern era for sure and made it, I think, a little more attractive. for the masses, but overall I think Honda decided they have a product that has a small but dedicated fan base, so let's keep building that same product for them and I personally think it worked.

This is a great small mid-size truck. Maybe not. Be the truckiest truck out there, but it's going to do most of the jobs you have to do, so everyone, like I said, that's it for this one, go ahead and tell us what you think of the old crest vs. the new ridge and , as always, while you're down. Leave a comment, hit like, hit subscribe and then come back here to Trucking to see what we're testing next, see you guys.