Future Sibling: Ram Dakota Pickup First Look!

[Lunentucker]

I guess no one does actual front bumpers anymore huh? Lines almost look similar to the last generation Colorado.

Yep. My '24 Canyon, you have to remove the entire front facia to replace a headlight, and they're $800.

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[Hootbro]

Maybe I am stuck in the old fart demographic, but that thing is pretty ugly.

 

[Q Tip]

Yep. My '24 Canyon, you have to remove the entire front facia to replace a headlight, and they're $800.

Same with my 2015 2500 HD. Drives me crazy. But when you actually do it; it snaps apart and isn't really that bad. I do yearn for the old days however.

 

[Q Tip]

I owned 2 of the original square body Dakotas. An '89 and a '95 with the 318.
Delightfully unsophisticated. My 89 had 316k on the throttle body v6 when I sold it.

 

[camss69]

Maybe it looks better in person?

 

[Chaos Theory]

I noticed it says "RAM Turbo" on the hood, I wonder what that means?

Guaranteed failure point once out of warranty.

 

[DanJT]

My 89 Dakota was the $hit... But now, no thanks!

 

[Hootbro]

I owned 2 of the original square body Dakotas. An '89 and a '95 with the 318.
Delightfully unsophisticated. My 89 had 316k on the throttle body v6 when I sold it.

I had a 1988 Dakota 4x4 regular cab with 8' bed. Same V6. Other than a bad distributor coil pickup and a broken alternator mount bolt, was dead nuts reliable. Oil filter access sucked and would spray oil everywhere when drain. Even with all that, would buy one all over again if I could.

 

[Q Tip]

We have a '92 Dakota SLE reg cab short bed 4x4 here as a farm truck that has 68k miles on it. All original with window sticker showing msrp of less than 17k. 3:92 gears. Cold air. Needs a new front driver side brake caliper is all. It did shred the distributor gear drive and the top of the oil pump for some unknown reason. First year of the Magnum V6.

 

[Renegade]

From what I can see. It's got IFS.

Yep

 

[Free2roam]

Sibling? More like a red-headed step child no one wants

 

[Vtur]

Nope. Nice try though!

 

[Vtur]

Maybe it looks better in person?

Not a chance from this trained eyes lol

 

[4xjeepr]

Eh..... pass!

 

[Oilburner]

I get it. ~90%+ of midsize truck buyers want something more carlike to drive, Ram wants a piece of that pie. I just hope the JT survives (with a V8 )

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