With hints of Honda wanting Nissan to build Ridgelines in Mississippi, many questions arise:
Will the Ridgeline we know and love still be built in Alabama? At least some of them?
Will Nissan be building exact replicas of the Ridgeline at their Mississippi (Frontier) plant? Or will they be BoF trucks? If the latter, will they be re-badged Frontiers?
If they are to be our standard unibody Ridgeline, perhaps Honda will finally give some love to the truck as they will actually be able to increase sales and not be constrained by production capacity. This could mean more trim levels, off-road versions, etc.
If the Ridgeline goes down that dark road of BoF trucks... well, I've said here before that if Honda did their own tweaking to the Frontier, added their own 350hp V8 and the ZF 8-speed, that might be enough to draw me back to a BoF truck. And probably hundreds of thousands of other truck buyers...
See 3rd Gear here:
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Will the Ridgeline we know and love still be built in Alabama? At least some of them?
Will Nissan be building exact replicas of the Ridgeline at their Mississippi (Frontier) plant? Or will they be BoF trucks? If the latter, will they be re-badged Frontiers?
If they are to be our standard unibody Ridgeline, perhaps Honda will finally give some love to the truck as they will actually be able to increase sales and not be constrained by production capacity. This could mean more trim levels, off-road versions, etc.
If the Ridgeline goes down that dark road of BoF trucks... well, I've said here before that if Honda did their own tweaking to the Frontier, added their own 350hp V8 and the ZF 8-speed, that might be enough to draw me back to a BoF truck. And probably hundreds of thousands of other truck buyers...
See 3rd Gear here:
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