Sorry, I meant to respond a few minutes ago. But totally got sidetracked by your avatar. Totally would, where do I sign up.
I don't think that is really your car. But even if it was, I am okay with yellow Corvettes. I am also okay if you happen to own a denim Corvette button down shirt, wear a Corvette wrist watch, and write with a collectible Corvette pen.
What I am not okay with is Honda or Toyota. Ever! Period! These cars are taking away the wages of hard working Americans each and everyday. If you want to buy a foreign car, FINE BY ME, but for the love all that is holy don't go flashing around in it with some quasi-homosexual paint scheme. This is America damnit, and this aggression will not stand, man.
Buy American, Live American, Do an American in the Back of an American Made Truck...my life motto.
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I enjoy certain shades of yellow on sport cars. In fact, my s2000 is yellow.
I guess he's just hating on the foreign yellow cars because they take away AMERICAN JOBS. Or maybe it was the fact that he hated a guy with a yellow S2000.
back to the topic on hand my complaints have been many yet in the end I have expcepted this truck.
- power is awesome and will be better when K&N and superchips get off their asses-
- seats wearing prematurely but theirs nothing to to do about it.
- Ive seen a couple complaints about handeling but what do you expect its a sports car wheel and feel in a huge truck, at least it not as loose a chevy's move the wheel a few feet and itll engage in a few minutes.
- as for the interior shaking and rattling I havent expereinced this, I felt it before in other vehicles but running through feild roads around 75 mph in a cloud of dust has been as smooth as on the road.
Yes. This ram was being finalized back in the middle of high gas prices. But it was not being designed during those prices. When gas was at $4 these trucks were rolling off a line and being tested. It was too late to make changes. Too many committments were made. The development of a new vehicle takes years, not months. What technology do you propose they should have worked into the truck? A new smaller diesel? That's been scrapped b/c it costs too much money? A hybrid? In development but not ready yet and guess what, that too would raise the price of your truck at least $10k and it doesn't look like that's something people are willing to pay. The non-Hemis get poor mileage b/c they're simpler engines. They don't make up the bulk of sales so Chrsyler can't afford to dump more money into them. The carmakers still need to make money....
If you want better mileage today, you either need to a) pay more money (and we're talking a lot more) or b) significantly give up power. Now I don't want to pay $10k extra for a hybrid truck b/c it won't pay off, even with $4 gas.
If you don't need a truck, don't buy a truck. I need a truck, so I bought one. I'm happy with the mpg. It's beats or matches every other truck in it's class with a similar power rating. The Ford and Chevy high mpg trucks only get 1 mpg more on the highway and they have smaller engines, crappy low resistance tires, sit lower, and have crappy gears. I don't want all that for 1 mpg.
These are big trucks that move a lot of air and take a lot of energy to get moving. They're never going to be as efficient as cars. You want efficient - go buy a Prius. If you don't need a truck then don't complain about the mpg.
We have the HEMI 09 Crew and in the city we are getting 16.5 avg, even after reset, a few hours later back to 16 or so, now step on it a few times and that kinda changes drastically but what do you expect from a 390 HP engine? Get a Prius if mileage is your main concern. I forgot to mention we have 600 km's on it only, after it breaks in I am expecting better mileage.
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09 Sport, Hemi 4x4 CC, mopar bed rug, pace edwards power locking gate, updated to REN and uconnect,tinted front two windows,Husky Weather beater liners, Craftec Tonneau, Mopar mudflaps, Mopar step tubes, future mods will be up to weather or not my wife gets back to work or not.
Ok, here's a legitimate complaint. The truck rattles too much on washboard roads. We did about 200 miles of dirt roads last weekend, and the truck rides great, but rattles like crazy.
How can Dodge make something that is so perfectly quiet on the highway, that can also make so much racket on rough dirt washboard roads? My Jeep is so loud you can't talk to your passenger on the highway, but even it rattles less than the brand new Dodge on washboard roads.
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Was at the dealer 2 weeks ago admiring a brand new '09 Ram 1500 on the show room floor... opened the back door on the drivers side, looked inside and then shut the door. Was surprised that right after shutting the door, the drivers front bucket seat as shaking and wobbling from side-to-side. Did it again just to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. And the wobbling happened again. Can’t imagine what the wobbling and shaking would be like on a dirt road at speed going over bumps.
The only rattles I have in my truck are from the passengers' seat belts when after they get out the buckle rattles against the B-pillar panel. It needs to be tucked between the seat and the panel, after that it's all quiet again.
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