 is up you guys. We'll go back to another one. If you are new to the channel, I am Goldpony under new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we're in the brand new 2024 Honda Ridgeline courtesy of Sioka Honda of Hanover in Hanover PA for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So we're in this one today because of course Honda's reputation for excellent reliability. There is a new trim level for the 2024 Ridgeline as well. And all wheel drive actually does come standard on the Ridgeline, which is definitely useful. And days like today where it is freezing and pouring down rain. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, ride quality, sound system exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2024 Ridgeline. First one being the sport starting at $39,750, RTL, which is the one we are in today starting at $42,580. Trail sport, which is the new trim level for the 2024 Ridgeline that starts at $44,980 and the block addition going for $46,350. But regardless of trim level that you go with the power plant on the Ridgeline is going to be the same. Powering the Beast is a 3.5 liter direct injected V6 putting out 280 horsepower at 6,000 RPM, 262 pound feet of torque coming in at 4,700 RPM. That power being sent to all four wheels through a nine speed automatic with paddle shifters, which you guys know of course we will be testing out here in a little bit, but zero to 60 time, approximately 6.2 seconds. That's plenty impressive on paper. Redline 6,900 RPM with MPG numbers coming in at 18 in the city, 24 in the highway taking regular unleaded fuel. So before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in the Ridgeline, I did what I mentioned to you guys, the drive mids. There's a little button right behind the shift buttons there. Drive mids will include normal snow, mud and sand, adjusting things like the shift points, the throttle response, the traction control settings and the all wheel drive system engagement then as well. So now I haven't got all of that out of the way. What do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put the paddle shifters here to the test first and let's see how quickly they are going to react for us here. All right, so just put in a manual shift mode here. Just press the D slash S button again. And it is telling me what gear I am in up on the digital portion of the gauges in three, two, one, go. This takes quick. All right, so there is a little bit of a delay to the paddle shifters, but that acceleration, I mean, that really impressed me there. Now, I'm going to give back full control to the Ridgeline here. We're going to do that acceleration again because I was really just testing the paddle shifters out there. But again, there's a little bit of a delay but the good thing about having paddle shifters in let's say this truck as well as SUVs is if it were to be snowing out here in PA as it quite often does, if you're going down a hill, you can actually use the paddle shifters to do a little bit of engine braking as opposed to actually hitting the brakes, you're less likely to actually slide off the road. So they're good for that reason, but there is a little bit of a delay. But now let's go ahead and find one more straightaway and give back full control to the Ridgeline here. And let's see how quickly we can get our new 2024 Ridgeline here up to speed. All right, in three, two, one, go. I love how it's instantaneous. That's fine. This thing is plenty quick. I already tested it out with the paddle shifter. So definitely not going to have any issues emerging onto the highway. And I love how it's still a naturally aspirated V6. So it's not turbo charged yet, like every other manufacturer is doing right now, because not only does that impede reliability a little bit, but you do have that little bit of a delight, a little bit of turbo lag when you initially hit the gas, which I've never been a big fan of, but I love the naturally aspirated engines because it's an acceleration. Second you hit that accelerator, so I'm a big fan of the acceleration, so good job Honda. But anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important. So upfront you will find 12.6 inch ventilated front discs and the back 13 inch solid rear discs. As far as that 60 is your stopping distance goes, that comes in at 128 feet, which is pretty on par for the course. As far as braking feel goes, it's on the softer side of things as expected. So usually with SUVs and especially trucks, you're not gonna find a front brake, you feel so. It's perfectly fine. I don't have any issues with this, what I would expect there. Then touching on suspension and handling, upfront you're gonna get a McPherson strut front suspension in the back independent multi-link rear suspension, front and rear stabilizer bars, but for that new trail sport trim level, there's actually an off-road tune suspension. So that is pretty darn cool. But anyways, as far as ride quality goes, it's been perfectly fine in my short little test drive here today. So absorbing handover's road imperfections quite nicely. It kind of rides like an SUV, quite honestly. So think of the Honda pilot, it's kind of what it rides like. So it's perfectly fine for me. As far as steering feel goes, I would say it's a little bit on the heavier side of things, but it's not a loose steering feel, which is typically what I expect. In a vehicle that kind of rides like an SUV, because most SUVs do have a loose steering feel. So I would say it's just right. It's not a heavy steering feel, but it's not a loose steering feel either. As far as cabin noise goes, we're going $41 per hour right now. Get a little bit of a rain noise today, but honestly, there's not a heck of a lot of wind noise. There's not a lot of road noise either coming in. So that's been perfectly fine for me. Touching our rear visibility, it looks like a truck. Looking out my rear view mirror, I could see perfectly fine out the back. So definitely not going to have any issues there. But that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2024 Honda Ridgeline. All right, so here she is you guys, the new 2024 Honda Ridgeline. Yes, I am under my umbrella. So a little bit of an ASMR in the rain here, but anyways, this one is finished in Sonic Gray Pearl in case you were curious of the exact exterior color name that we had on this one. I like the color. There is a new color for the 2024 Ridgeline. That's going to be called Diffused Sky Blue. And that is specific to the trail sports trim level only in case you were curious. But as always, let's go ahead and start with where this one is made. Taking a look at the VIN, first character is the number five, indicating that the Honda Ridgeline is built and assembled here in the US in case you were curious. But starting up front, Bloss Black front grille will come standard. LED projector headlights do come standard on every single trim level across the board. It's basically the best illumination you can get there. LED daytime running lights also coming standard. Of course, you get the automatic feature. Also get automatic high beams. So if you have your high beams on at night and senses of vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's going to automatically dim them back to low beams. When that vehicle is gone, it's going to automatically bounce it back up to high beams for there. So you got to love that. LED fog lights, you guys can see those at the very bottom. They actually do come standard for every single trim level across the board. So I absolutely love that. In case you were curious about the ground clearance, it comes in at 7.6 inches there. In case you were curious about that and you guys can probably see to the corners there, you will get front air curtains helping direct air around the wheel and tire combination for a little better aerodynamics there. But that pretty much rounds out the front end of this one. We're gonna make our way to the side. All right, so now since we are around to the side of the ridgeline here, you're either going to find gloss black or chrome windows surrounds dependent upon the trim level that you go with. It comes to the side mirrors. They're gonna be body colored or gloss black side mirrors. Again, dependent upon the trim level there. Heated side mirrors come standard for all trim levels, but that sport trim, power folding side mirrors, then coming on the trail sport and black edition. They take a look down at the wheel setup. I actually like these up close. And so 18 inch alloy wheels will come standard for all trim levels across the board. Of course, you will get some all terrain tires for the trail sport. That's kind of the off-roading trim, of course, in case I didn't say that already. But additional underbody protection via skid plates also coming with that trail sport as well in case you're curious. But again, that pretty much rounds out the side profile. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one, all the way to the top body colored shark fin antenna, just below that center high mount stop lamp. You do have LED tail lights that come standard for every single trim level across the board. Gotta love that. I kind of like how that ridgeline lettering is etched into the rear tailgate there. I think that looks pretty darn good as well. In case you're curious about the towing capacity since we're around back, that comes in at 5,000 pounds even. And then to the sides there, dual exhaust outlets. I love this look with chrome tips. Very few trucks are doing that. I think it looks absolutely amazing. But having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next here. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the ridgeline, when it comes to opening that rear tailgate, my favorite part about the ridgeline, one of my favorite parts, it is a dual action tailgate is what Honda calls itself. It does open up like a traditional tailgate inner truck from the top there, but it also swings open from right to left, kind of in the back of the tailgate close to that. So you lift up underneath and it kind of swings open. So if you wanted to put something back a little further into the tailgate, that's an easy way to go ahead and do that. But they also do that for another reason cause there actually is in bed storage within the ridgeline as well with a drain plug as well. So that is pretty darn cold. So you can actually go tailgating with the ridgeline and put a bunch of ice and drinks back there. Kind of like the Tesla Cybertruck now has. So the Honda Ridgeline actually pioneered this feature. They were the first ones to have it. So I absolutely love that. It is pretty darn cold. But anyways, as far as the bed length goes that comes in at 64 inches with the rear tailgate down that comes in at 83 inches in case you were curious. The in bed storage that I was just telling you guys about that 7.3 cubic feet with the drain plug of course. There is a spare tire within there as well in case you were curious if it had a spare tire that's where that's located. Tie down cleats of course coming standard back there. You have some LED truck bed lights for the black edition trouble level only but that's how you get the LEDs at least. But truck bed power outlet then for that black edition as well. But soon they make their way up to the rear legroom that comes in at 36.7 inches for reference. I mean even six feet tall. So much space I had in the back there. Cool thing about these rear seats though of course is a 60-40 split flip up bench seat. So if you had a massive for a great day and a heck of a lot of stuff you just wanted to put back there and you didn't need the seats. That's definitely an option back there. Rear ventilation and storage coming standard. There is a rear center armrest with cup holders as well. If you wanted heated rear seats go with the black edition. That's how you're gonna go ahead and get that and I was able to find the 12-volt power outlet back there too, which is always nice. But then make your way up to the front seats manually adjustable cloth seating for the sport. Leather seating for the RTL trim level and up. L meaning leather of course. Tailway power driver seat with power lumbar for the RTL trim level and up as well. Memory settings RTL trim level and up and that's for two different drivers by the way. Heated front seats for the RTL trim level and up. I think our trim level is really the sweet spot quite honestly but ventilated front seats then coming with the black edition on my short little test drive here today. Seats have been plenty comfortable so absolutely no issues there. Then take a good look at the steering wheel just help and telescoping and is leather wrapped for the RTL trim level and up. Yet again heated steering wheel then coming with the trail sport and black edition in case you were curious and you wanted that. But let's go ahead and make our way to the startup now. Let me start by showing you guys the key here. You got your Honda logo on the one side. When you flip it over lock unlock and that circular button that says hold that is gonna be your remote star which by the way comes standard on every single trim level across the board but it is all keyless entry with a push button start so all I'm going to do here is simply put my foot in the brake and press that engine start button located kind of just to the left of the climate control information there. So once started up as far as the gauges go it's gonna be a seven inch digital screen tachometer is all the way to your left. Speedometer is on your right there and digital speedometer front and center. Of course it has how many miles you'll have left to hit empty. There's your outside temperature. Also displays all of the different drive modes up there as well. That's that noise that you guys are probably hearing there but yeah pretty much everything you could possibly want on the digital portion of the gauges there but now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. Power moon roof coming standard for every single trim level but the sport. LED interior lighting all trims but the sport again. So again this RTL trim level is really the sweet spot I'm telling you. Homeland controls yet again all trim levels but the sport overhead sunglass holder for all trim levels across the board. Tri-Zone climate control actually comes standard for all trim levels as well. So both driver, passenger and the rear passengers can all set their individual temperatures. This is pretty cool. Ambient LED lighting for the trail sport and black edition. If you go with the trail sport the ambient lighting is gonna be finished in orange. If you go with the black edition it's gonna be in red in case you were curious. So it's not multicolor it is a single color but at least it's there. Wireless phone charger does come standard for every single trim level across the board. You gotta love that. This is located just in front of the shift buttons. It's got a rubberized bottom so things don't slide around. But speaking of just to the right of that if you wanted more storage there's more rubberized storage there. You got a couple USB charging ports, 12 volt power outlet, dual cup holders and surrounding those cup holders and shift buttons. It's actually a texturized silver finish. Good job Honda. You probably watched my videos before. I hate when manufacturers leave that in matte gray or in matte black plastic. Honda did better. They did it right. They gave it a texturized silver finish. I definitely don't mind that. Then within the center armrest there's an absolute ton of storage within that center armrest. So more than I'm used to finding I'll definitely say that. So overall as far as interior quality goes it's not bad kind of a little bit more towards the point but there's a lot of storage. I'll say that including on the doors there's like three different levels of storage. I just saw that. So that's pretty cool. So it wouldn't bother me. I'll just put it that way. But now let's go ahead and make our way to that infotainment screen the nine inch color touchscreen display is going to come standard for all trim levels. You get Bluetooth and audio streaming but you also get Android Auto, Apple CarPlay but it's wireless for all trim levels. So no pesky USB cables. I love that. Factory navigation system for the trail sport and black edition. There's a ton of different things you can check out up there as well. So anyways, of course you got your radio information. So when it comes to the sound systems there are two of them actually seven speakers with 215 Watts and a subwoofer coming with a sport RTL and trail sport. Then you got an eight speaker sound system with 540 Watts and a subwoofer for the black edition. So having said that, we got that seven speaker sound system with us here today. So what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing this morning and let's test out the clarity of this one. Got about great. Nowadays everybody wanna talk but they got something to say but nothing comes out when they move it. They act like a forgot about it. But that was a pretty darn good sound system not a ton of clarity. It was pretty darn good. Don't get me wrong, but the bass was pretty darn good. You could definitely tell there was a subwoofer with that sound system. So it's okay. It's not anything that's gonna blow you away but it gets the job done. But last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen at least is when you do put the ridge line in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board. There's a couple of different views down there in the bottom left hand corner as well. So that's pretty cool. But as always that is going to lead us into safety. And so front side, side current airbags do come standard latch in the back AKA lower anchors of tethers for children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks, type pressure monitoring system but also coming standard of course, Honda sensing. So that gives you a collision mitigation braking system, road departure mitigation system, adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist, forward collision warning, lane departure warning and you actually get a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert for all trim levels across the board. So that is definitely pretty darn good as well. Then if you were to go with the trail sport or black edition, you're gonna get front and rear parking sensors. Overall, when it comes to my final thoughts here of the Ridgeline, the in-bed storage is still absolutely amazing. Most trucks are still not doing that. As amazing of a feature as it is, you would think more trucks would be doing that. But anyways, Tesla copied off of Honda on that one. So I like that. Dual action tailgate is pretty darn great as well. It's definitely more of a practical and convenient feature there. Also really liked the ride quality actually on the Ridgeline. It definitely rides more along the lines of an SUV like the Honda Pilot as opposed to an actual truck. So was a big fan of that. As far as room for improvement goes, I'll give you two things, I guess. Towing capacity is just okay. 5,000 pounds, it's pretty much, I'll say less than average for trucks. I'll just put it that way. And the other thing is the braking feel. Wouldn't mind it if that was firmed up a little bit. I know it's pretty much on par for the course that 60 is zero and 128 feet. It's okay, it's just not the best. 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