QOTD: Will You Miss the Ram Classic?

by Tim Healey

Published: August 6th, 2024

After hanging on for quite some time, the Ram Classic is finally dead. Fully dead. Kaput.

So today's QOTD is an easy one. As asked above in the headline, will you miss it?

Or is it time to move on to the new Ram 1500, Hemi or not?

Don't forget, the Ram Classic began production in 2008 under the Dodge brand name.

Since then we've had three different presidents, a global financial meltdown, a global pandemic, an insurrection Washington, D.C., and a lot more. It is during this time that Ram became its own brand -- a truck and cargo-van only brand.

So, the Classic was around a long time, but it wasn't going to be around forever.

Will you miss it?

Sound off below.

[Image: Ram/Stellantis]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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TheEndlessEnigma on Aug 09, 2024
Stellantis just shitcanned 2450 employees of the Warren truck plant.

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Dave on Aug 14, 2024
Saw it coming. Bought a '22 with a 2dr cab, Hemi 4x4. 8' bed. Plain. Not even power windows. You'll never be able to buy a truck like that again.

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