According to Consumer Reports, best trucks are Honda Ridgeline and Toyota Tundra, worst trucks are Nissan Titan, Chevrolet Colorado (4WD) and GMC Canyon (4WD) and F-150 is rated below average.
Consumer Reports is a bunch of garbage magazine that always sticks their heads up Honda's rear. There credibility is going down the junker more with every passing year.
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Out of those listed, which one would you pick if you had to load up and flog it from Kansas City to Anchorage and back. That is how I pick my stuff and the Ford is the only choice on my list. Consumer Reports has been out of touch for the last 20 years.
Consumer Report needs to ride on the interstate hightways and see what are the most visible truck on the road. I have an '04 FX4 F150. Great little truck.
The CR editors and most of its membership are car people. Their expectations are driven by the "car" model: soft, cushy, highway cruiser with good mileage. I don't think they even know what a real truck is or how they are actually used.
They should limit their polling on pickups to people who use them in their jobs. I think the results would be quite different.
dude the ridgeline isn't even a truck. To say it is is the biggest error in the consumer reports ratings. It has a unit body frame, as a lot of us know, making it a piss poor truck. I think they got the towing rating up to 4-5k pounds, but seriously, that's only slightly better than a minivan. I think of this vehicle as more of a sheep in wolf's clothing. The idea that consumer reports thinks it's the best truck shows how little they actually know about trucks, or what a truck is really for.
They're not only out of touch, they report lies. Remember the huge "rollover" scandal of the suzuki sidekick. Yeah my dad has one of those and we can cut doughnuts in the snow and not flip the thing. They modified their test in order to flip it because one fo the testers went outside of the perameters of the track and it flipped.
I'm surprised anybody with a brain listens to them anymore.
1. They have always been a joke for getting real vehicle ratings
2. They rate reliablity based on previous years. They don't take into account that anything may be fixed going forward. EX: Titan got a bad rating because the brake rotors in '04 were warping. They now have new rotors that don't warp, but the rating doesn't take that into account. Real easy to verify but they don't take the time to look. Bean counter stuff.
3. That being the case, how can they rate the Honda reliable when its a first year truck?
Just laugh and know they got it just about as wrong as they could and use them only for rating washing machines.
It's not even worth posting. That is ridiculous to even think the Ridgeline, could be considered a better 'truck'. First off, it's not a truck, it has a uni-body structure, a car engine, and looks horrible. It's platform was based off of the Pilot, which was just an Odyssey. That means it's not going to last long if anyone tried using it as a truck. the mileage sucks, when compared to how much any other truck on the road gets, with FAR more practicality, and style, so that isn't even worth mentioning. This joke of a vehicle is for car owners, that think they need something bigger.
I don't understand how the F-150 can be rated last either. BEST crash test ratings a PU has EVER recieved, comparably superior mileage, great looks (subjective), stronger driveline, more dependable, and will last for a long long time.
That article would disprove ANY credibility that this CR had in the first place, but, we all know there are a lot of ignorant people out there that listen to this garbage. Makes me angry.
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