Shock test, includes Tacoma

[biggerbearser]

For apples to apples, they should put some 10-ply load range E off-road tires on that Ridgeline and see what that does to the unsprung mass, and how well the shocks deal with it. Not nearly so well, I expect.

But the real lesson of this video is, any truck can be destroyed by abusing it, and that's exactly what this crew was doing in the first 11 miles. If they'd been driving their personal vehicles that they maintain and repair out of their own pockets, they'd never have been driving like that.

You are right, who would drive so slowly? Saline Valley Road is in worse shape and I typically hold 50mph, touching 70-80 when there is a solid straight, with a bed full of a weeks camping gear. I can't imagine putting along to the Race Track at 30 like they were doing.