If this week’s Muddy Mondays feature was a Dodge Challenger doing exactly the same thing in a parking lot as the big Ram 3500 dually diesel in the video below is doing in the mud, we would call it drifting.  While this Cummins powered diesel Ram isn’t drifting by the traditional definition – that is […] More »

What’s the best way to transport your classic Mopar muscle car to a show? How about this classic Dodge race car hauler built by famous 50s NASCAR driver Cotton Owens? He built this back in 1987 by taking a 1977 D700 cab and chassis and welding it to a 1980 Club Cab. It’s on eBay now with a Buy It Now price of $26,500. Worth it? More pics after the jump!

On Sunday, the Southern California Viper Club held a cruise beginning at Supercar Sunday (at the Topanga Westfield) following the storied Mulholland Highway and Kanan Rd. to an ultra-luxury detailing shop, Lavaggio in Agoura Hills. This DF journo was lucky to be along. The weather was perfect (it’s SoCal, duh) and all but the first […] More »

It has been years since Chrysler built a half ton pickup with a manual transmission option aside from the high priced SRT10 models.  While the take rate of Ram 1500 pickups fitted with a clutch pedal were very low in their final years, many half ton Ram owners still pine for a manual transmission…preferably with […] More »

The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series stopped in Kansas this past weekend for the Kansas Nationals and Dodge drivers claimed both of the branded classes – with Johnny Gray winning Funny Car while Jeg Coughlin claimed the win in Pro Stock. In the Funny Car class, five Dodge Charger race cars qualified (Gray, Beckman, […] More »

As mentioned on Autoblog, domestics dominated this year’s Total Quality awards by Strategic Vision. This was the first time that this has happened in over a decade. And Dodge was tops in two categories: the Dart was named Best Small Car and the Durango was named Best Midsize Traditional Utility. The Dart’s win was especially […] More »

All of the hoopla around the introduction of the 2014 SRT Viper TA at the New York International Auto Show had one downside – a great many people paid no attention to the brief comments by SRT boss Ralph Gilles about the future of the expected “Cuda”. It has long been rumored that the Chrysler Group […] More »