While I fully expect the usual "who would buy this crap?" comments, I hope most do remember that there are actually people who could use this vehicle. Right, it's not for soccer moms or people who just drive to work with it, point taken, let's all move on.

Actually seems to be a decent truck, even if its styling does look somewhat borrowed from the new Fords.

I hope this current gas price debaucle will shift the priorities of drivers, and put trucks like this back in the hands of the people who need them, and not just anyone who needs to feel "big and bad."

This truck has its place, but it is NOT commuting. Use it for what it's MEANT to be used (towing, hauling, etc). 20 mpg highway isn't too bad considering the class.

Looks good. I just wish I could afford to drive it.
Cheers for actually making a pickup that doesn't use leaf springs anymore.

Dodge needs to bring the Dakota back down to an appropriate size. It's huge now. Does the small pickup truck really need a 300hp v8? Yes, but only for a limited edition like the R/T.

It's got a lot of power. Yay for making such an awesome engine. Hemi's are inefficient and little more dirty with better torque, that's why they gave up on them 30 years ago.

Now, que the ridiculous anti-american, anti-gas-hog, anti-pollution, anti-V8 rhetoric TR is polluted with.

We all know it's ridiculous to buy a v8 truck as a daily driver. Don't go rambling about how they shouldn't make them anoymore. Some people have to work, and/or pull a boat or trailer on the weekend. I saw a Honda Fit pulling a jetski the last time I was at the lake. It was downright pitiful and doesn't work!

who would buy this crap?

Dodge is moving forward because it's already put the money into it....what else is it going to do ?

The floor mounted cooler/fridge is a bit strange since.......as a WORK truck all kinds of dirt, plants, coal dust, bugs, etc., are going to fall into the container and it's going to be a very ugly scene in there very quickly. The ranch hand sitting in the back is going to put his boot right on top of it....gross

Time for new technology super clean diesels to be put on the market (well, the Europeans are already all over this) in order for a vehicle like this not to eat the ranch owner's profits up within three days.

I'm hoping American car companies can come up with something by 2012. We shall see.

I LOVE WHINING !

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I love the interior....light years ahead of the previous Ram.

For those who say that the new Dodge looks like a Ford I ask; if you were to emulate another vehicle in the same class, doesn't it make sense for it to be the (former) best-selling vehicle in the US?

Personally, I think the Dodge looks light-years better than the new Ford truck. The Ford's styling is just to "busy". And thank God that the Dodge doesn't have those awful "vents" glued to its fenders.

For those who need it, this truck will likely be the best of the bunch.....until the next round anyway.

To all of the "It looks like a Ford" people, go back and look at when Dodge first went to the big-rig look (mid '90's I think). This new Ram looks like it takes a lot of it's style from then. Maybe it's Ford who is making there truck look like a Dodge.

Ok, for real people, STFU about how other people use their vehicles.
FACT: Way more trucks get sold in the US every year than there are owners who will haul stuff with them.
FACT: Way more sports cars are sold in the US every year than there are owners who will take them to the track.
Why do I have to listen to you annoying idiots ranting about how many mpg MY car gets? It's my money, not yours, and I have a right to drive a 1Ton pickup on road trips between NYC and LA if I want to. DEAL WITH IT.

Sorry, I just had to get that out there before the prius crowd comes in here and sucks the life out of the place.

Also, Hemi's are MORE efficient, not less, and that's not why they "gave up" on them 30 years ago. The only difference between a "hemi" and a normal OHV V-8 is that the valves are on opposite sides of the cylinder head. This is similar to how all OHC engines are laid out (more efficient), but most OHC engines have 3-5 valves per cylinder instead of the standard 2 in this engine. The Hemi died in the early 80's during the gas crunch that pretty much laid waste to the muscle car era, but fuel efficiency was not the only reason it died. Hemi heads are also heavier and more expensive to build, and due to the less restrictive air path within a Hemi head there is less torque on tap at low RPM's. I'd go into how these things are all inter-related but I don't think posts can be that long. Anyways, good truck Dodge, and for anybody who thinks Dodge is copying Ford, think back to when the "big rig" look came into style, and remember who had it first (dodge) and who immediately copied them (ford). Pwned

coil springs in the rear? score one for implementing innovation!

And I thought dinosaurs were dead...

...anyway, hey Carter: STFU Just because you can spend your money anyway you want doesn't mean you should. Don't any of you me-first jackasses have a lick of personal responsibility to the environment, other drivers, or to not waste valuable resources? Of course not, that would violate the me-first code! Carter wants a big truck to make himself feel better about his small penis, so that's all that matters.

Hey Jung, just because you are an idiot doesnt mean you have to spew your vehemence in here for the rest of us to listen to it. If Carter wants to spend HIS MONEY how HE WANTS then HE can do it. Who died and made you Judge, Jury and Executioner for GreenPeace? Global warming has been proved to be a sham, manufacturing, buying, using, oogling over, wanting these vehicles isn't going to do a lick for or against the environment, natural resources, your trees, your cancer-stricken dog or your fancy Birkenstocks. Quit with your me-first rants because its obvious that your opinion is first when it comes to you going apeshit about personal responsibility. Go organize a sit-in or something, the normal people are going to continue to do what WE want to do with what WE have.

Dodge = POS

I really don't care what anyone buys but at around $40k pop whoever buys one better put it to work at least while it's not it the shop. Otherwise they should be sterilized to prevent tainting the gene pool further. No all Dodge truck owner should be sterilized regardless of what they do with it. I have yet to meet one on the road that didn't drive like a dumb ass male or female.

Slightly ? ...

Hero of Canton:

Global waring proven to be a sham? Please cite your source on this. The rest of your posts is just basically trying to discredit me be painting me as a hippy tree-hugger, and Carter should just go ahead and do what carter wants to do because Carter feels like it. It wont make any difference and way because...? It's not really clear why you think nothing we do will make an impact, other than it's easier that way.

deport it. Move on.

i really could care less about the enviroment, or if global warming exists or not. its the endless amount of support for assholes like the saudi regime that bothers me. and by support, i mean buying vehicles like this that gobble gas. the funny thing is, its typically the rednecks in society that are all about killin the AY-RABS yet they are the same ones that wouldnt dare get fuel efficient vehicles and in turn fill the coffers of corrupt middle east regimes.

I'm glad you could care less about the environment because if you couldn't care less then you wouldn't care at all and that doesn't make any sense since you live in and survive because of the environment.

@dennisil:
who would buy this crap?

Obviously someone who made more than 12K this year. Paupers need not apply.

@ Carter

I was always told Hemi's are more efficient displacement wise but not consumption wise. And I was under the impression that a hemi had a hemispherical combustion chamber, hence the name hemi. It seems to me that'd be a difference to note.

"Drawbacks of the hemispherical chamber such as increased production cost, high relative weight (25% heavier than a comparable wedge head per Chrysler's engineers[4]), poor low-rpm performance characteristics and difficulty meeting emissions standards have pushed the hemi head out of favor."

-wikipedia

So I guess it's emissions I was thinking of. You're right about the stuff you said though. I'm glad someone on here actually knows something instead of it being middle schoolers with attitude and a green thumb all the time.

@CKV

STOP POSTING SHIT UNDER MY NAME! SRSLY
I feel the guy the economy is bad, i wouldnt take a shot at him.

Umm... only the v6 gets 20mpg, the v8 will get less, especially the 390hp v8

@Carter and Hero of Canton:

You are all about personal responsibilty it seems, but where is your personal responsibility to your neighbors and countrymen? Its not people like me driving Mazda3's and Honda Civics pushing up Gas prices, its you and your V8. So I too have to pay for your actions? Thats not taking responsibility, thats pushing it off on someone else.

Also, you immediately assume everyone who doesn't like this car is some hippie tree hugger. First, I feel I have to tell you that Birkenstocks have not been popular since the 1990s. Second, I voted Bush. I'm now voting for McCain (unless Obama wises up and decides not to raise corporate taxes). I feel as Jung does though in that you don't have a right to just drive what you want to.

Mainly because you really don't. You do not have a right, for instance, to drive a Tractor-Trailer without a Class A liscense. You don't even have a right to drive, its a privilege hence the reason you are able to lose your liscense given too many speeding tickets and DUI's. No one here in the United States has any right to an automobile without the governments saying, its been that way since automobiles were first mass introduced to American life.

So no, its not just what you want to do and its only your choice. Your driving a gas hog pushes higher prices on other people, which is not personal responsibilty its shoving your lifestyle onto the backs of others. You do not have a right to purchase and drive any vehicle it says right on your liscense the class of vehicles you can operate. And you do not even have the right to drive, its just a privilege granted by the government.

So, let your redneck rants induced by alcohol and incest begin.

Allen,

You're obviously not conservative. You're a republican. There's quite a difference. Republicans masquarade as conservatives, then when in power spend more money and take away our personal freedoms. I for one think the government should never be granting privledges, but should feel privledges itself that citizens tollerate the ridiculously inefficient and domineering way in which it is ran. You sir, think the government grants rights and privledges, I think we are entitled to those privledges. Our constitution, and specifically the bill of rights appended to it, were to guarantee personal freedom, personal rights, and personal privledges were something citizens would always enjoy. Those have been stomped into the ground by neo-conservatives such as yourself. Our country ought not to be run by mob rule(democracy), sometimes the good of the whole cannot be taken over an individual's rights. The people grant the government the right to operate, it's not supposed to be the other way around.

You also don't believe in a free-market economy. You want government regulation (CAFE) I'm sure, instead of gas prices to lower consumption. Capitalism is an amazing thing, gas consumption went down 3% in the last year, despite 2 million more cars going on the road. Ford trucks are no longer the world's best selling vehicle. That's true capitalism at work. Don't take the supply and demand thing so far that you're egging hummers for raising your gas prices. If gas prices are too high for the market then they will fall with a comensurate lack of demand, I haven't really seen all that much less demand. There are people all over the gas stations. $4 a gallon apparently doesn't matter all that much.

How can you be against the corporate tax? I'm against all (high!)taxes, but corporate tax is one of the best alternatives. A personal income tax is discriminatory and taxes some classes higher than others. A corporate tax is passed along to the people who purchase their products or services. This makes for a more even distribution of taxation that (theoretically) discrimates less against the middle class. Right now the middle class bares a disporportionate share of the tax base. That needs to change. A flat tax will never be adopted by congress so the corporate tax is as good as it gets.