Before we got our Avalanche, we looked at alot of vehicles. The Ridgeline was one of them. Honda does after all have a history of long running engines. The body is a different story. One of the things we looked at first was the towing capacity.
It tows a max of 5000lbs. OUCH! In the original commercials it's shown towing a horse trailer...an empty horse trailer, and it's empty for a reason, put a horse in there, and you'd be over the limit.
I don't find that surprising that the Ridgeline couldn't pull the element out.
What I do find surprising is, WTH did the element driver take a vehicle that only has a ground clearance of about 6inches, off road and anywhere near a mud puddle?
People are seriously stupid.