One of these pulled up at my workplace today and I can not get over how stupid they look and that got me thinking, who thought making a shittier version of an Odyssey was a good idea.

This thing can’t be useful as a truck, can’t seat as many as a van, costs $50k and burns more gas then an Odyssey (10l/100km hwy vs 8l/100km hwy). Does anyone who drives these things think they are hot shit?

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzOPEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    I like the Baja, this “thing” is not a Baja. It is so far from anything like that that it confuses me that you think that they are even in the same category.

    • theluckyone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      I’d like to know why you think they’re not in the same category as both are:

      • unibody, not body on frame.
      • four door crew cab
      • small bed
      • Limited capacity, compared to a “real” pickup truck

      With the center console in the rear seat, the Baja can only seat four compared to the Ridgeline’s five. The Ridgeline can tow significantly more; bed weight capacity is a bit more as well.

      Obviously the styling is wildly different: the Baja is based of a decades old gen station wagon, whereas the Ridgeline is following the modern big beefy SUV trend. Maybe that’s where you’re coming from?

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzOPEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        The Baja is a car that has a cut out back bed, this is a massive van turned into a truck. The size and mass seem so different.