RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota!
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 7/22/2005 10:18:21 PM
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Tani1500
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That's good 'ol Dumler for ya'. The only thing they really want to do is put more money into their Benz operations, they were found taking huge fistfulls of Chrysler profits and funds and putting it into the Benz divisions.
they should break way from them. screw benz
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 7/24/2005 10:07:02 PM
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I don't like the new Dakota, Durango, and the new Ram coming out doesn't look good either. The Charger is a nice car but it should have been called something else or have two doors, not 4. I think DC has really dropped the ball lately. I have heard that the Dakota and Durango are up for facelifts in 07 already but I don't know how much truth there is to that rumor. I hope its true.
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 7/25/2005 3:20:49 PM
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One thing with the new Dak's is that when it rains, water seeps into the door area. There's a big gap on the roof where it meets the door where water can get in, large enough to stick your fingers into it...
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Ah no, Cali just had the worst rain fall it ever has and not one drop got in the truck and it site outside all day.
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 7/26/2005 1:55:09 AM
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It was an early production problem. you don't want to know how its been fixed.
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 7/26/2005 2:22:48 AM
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It was an early production problem. you don't want to know how its been fixed.
hahah yes we do
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 7/28/2005 12:09:26 AM
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I will take my 2000 over a new one any day!!!!!
The previous looks better, yes. But the new one isn't ugly. It just doesn't look as good as the previous, lol.
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 8/3/2005 4:13:04 PM
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Response to old post... With a lame 4.7... who'd bother messin' with it?
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 8/3/2005 4:19:47 PM
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Really?
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 8/4/2005 8:19:37 PM
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I bought this 2000 R/T new with the idea that I could exceed near everything for the base price of a Ford Lightning. I did. It was the Daks look that attracted me in the first place. The Ford looked like a big jellybean. This is my first (and apparently last) Dodge truck.
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Dodge won't be able to give these things away after the '05 model year. The entire engineering/design department should be fired... along with the boardroom idiots that approved it... including Jurgen. They are definately NOT paying attention to the target market.
Perhaps people who buy small pickup trucks to use them as a muscle car aren't exactly the "target market". Heck, look how long Ford owned the compact pickup market, with a mediocre-performing (but inexpensive) product that had its last major redesign hit the streets a few months before President Clinton was inaugurated.
re: "lame 4.7": what's an R/T rated to tow? Last I looked it was 2000 lbs. Figuring an R/T weighs about 4200, a '05, 4.7L HO w/ 3.92 gears can tow that R/T AND its biggest rated trailer, and still have 800 lbs to spare (about the R/T's payload capacity IIRC). How "lame" is that. :) I like the R/T well enough and wouldn't want to race one with either of my vehicles... but it's not very appealing as a truck to be used for truck duty.
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 8/4/2005 9:28:00 PM
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Perhaps people who buy small pickup trucks to use them as a muscle car aren't exactly the "target market". Heck, look how long Ford owned the compact pickup market, with a mediocre-performing (but inexpensive) product that had its last major redesign hit the streets a few months before President Clinton was inaugurated.
re: "lame 4.7": what's an R/T rated to tow? Last I looked it was 2000 lbs. Figuring an R/T weighs about 4200, a '05, 4.7L HO w/ 3.92 gears can tow that R/T AND its biggest rated trailer, and still have 800 lbs to spare (about the R/T's payload capacity IIRC). How "lame" is that. :) I like the R/T well enough and wouldn't want to race one with either of my vehicles... but it's not very appealing as a truck to be used for truck duty.
R/T's are 'muscle' trucks... it's an R/T... not an SLT. Towing is not a consideration. It's not a farm vehicle. Mine weighs 3900 with me in it. R/T's are a basis for haulin' nuthin but a$$... 'n many of 'em do that very well. You wouldn't want'a race one with good reason.
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 8/5/2005 1:55:45 AM
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Hmm.. odd when I owned my 01 dakota cc 2wd with a 4.7 5 speed. I beat several rc r/t's. And every cc. Stock to stock, no major mods. I do find it funny how R/T guys get all belligerent on the 4.7. But the H.O. is rated at 260 horse, 310 torque. A little more than an R/T 5.9, and it doesn't suck gas as bad as a 5.9 does. So the new R/T will make more power than the old.
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RE: Its official America hates the new Dakota! - 8/5/2005 3:45:40 AM
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Hmm.. odd when I owned my 01 dakota cc 2wd with a 4.7 5 speed. I beat several rc r/t's. And every cc. Stock to stock, no major mods. I do find it funny how R/T guys get all belligerent on the 4.7. But the H.O. is rated at 260 horse, 310 torque. A little more than an R/T 5.9, and it doesn't suck gas as bad as a 5.9 does. So the new R/T will make more power than the old.
Joe
Yeah... OK... sure. Did they know you were racing them? Did you do this on a dragstrip or on the street? Where? 4.7 CC's run mid-hi 15's. Stock RC R/T's run 14.80's/14.90's or low 15's depending upon altitude and driver ability. BUT... I'm sure you 'had' a veritable world beater. If I had a nickle for everybody who's told me they 'had' a this or that that beat this or that... I could buy a 408 crate motor. I get 11.5 in the city and 17 on the road. However... you don't run a 5.9 if you're concerned about gas milage. I recently rented an '05 Magnum with a 4.7 (2000 miles on it) in Phoenix and it was a pig. Both in performance, gas mileage and handling. You may have missed it... but I bought this thing to hot rod it. People who buy Lightnings don't tow or worry 'bout gas mileage much either. My R/T was $12,700. cheaper than the Lightning in 2000.
I only have about 2 grand over the Lightning MSRP in this R/T now.... and still N.A. 'n I don't worry about Lightnings... 4.7 Dakota's either.
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