Dodge Challenger: Most Appealing Midsize Sporty Car

The Dodge Challenger was awarded the JD Power & Associates award for "Most Appealing Midsize Sporty Car" for 2009. JD Power 2009 Dodge Challenger

2010 Truck of the Year Winner: Ram Heavy Duty - by Motor Trend

Motor Trend's 2010 Truck of the Year is the Dodge Ram Heavy Duty. The RAM Heavy Duty has been compared to the best in the industry - and it came out on top!

Top placement for:

• Design advancement
• Engineering excellence
• Intended function
• Efficiency
• Safety
• Value

The 2010 Dodge Ram Heavy Duty has many advantages over its competition. As you are aware, the all-new 2010 Ram Heavy Duty Pickup was awarded Motor Trend’s Truck of the Year®. The new Heavy-Duty trucks provide customers with first-time innovations and features along with new standards of strength, utility and driveability, building on the Ram’s leadership in the Heavy-Duty pickup segment.

Automobile Magazine Ranks Ram 1500 an 2010 Automotive All-Star

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The pickup market is among the most stagnant and resistant to change of any segment in the automotive arena. So when a new pickup has the fortitude to question established practices, it deserves to be recognized. The new half-ton Dodge Ram is that truck.
Cutting against the unquestioned trend of ever-more-ludicrous towing figures, towering "in-your-face" grilles, and absurdly jacked-up ride heights, Dodge engineers stepped back from the mindless braggadocio to create a vehicle that actually works smarter. Throwing out years of accepted wisdom, they scrapped the antediluvian leaf springs in favor of a well-located coil-sprung rear axle, dramatically improving the pickup's ride quality. They retreated from the cartoonish styling and instead shaped their truck in the wind tunnel, and consequently it uses less fuel. They also at long last addressed the issue of covered, secure cargo storage - which other makers of full-size trucks had consigned their buyers to add themselves or do without - and created the hugely innovative RamBox in-bedside storage compartments. Apparently also questioning the notion that a noisy truck is somehow acceptable where a noisy car is not, Dodge created a Ram that is astonishingly quiet to drive (although we are glad to still hear the Hemi V-8's distinct burble at start-up). In the suddenly competitive domain of interiors, the Ram sets the standard by living up to the radical idea that the cabin of a $40,000 truck should be as nice as that of a $40,000 car.
In all these changes, the Ram often had to go not just against its competitors, but also its own history. It surely was not easy. The Dodge Ram has gone from meathead to egghead, adding brains to its brawn. As a result, it surges to the front of the pack as the most livable yet still highly capable big pickup in the land.


Source: Automotive Magazine