Article Comments - 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 First Drive / Full Test

11 messages, Last post on Sep 26, 2009 at 3:33 PM

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First Drive: 2009 Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 - First Impressions: Dodge puts coil spring suspension in the back of its new 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup. And guess what? The world did not end. It works.(more)

2009 Dodge Ram 1500 Crew Cab Full Test - Bottom Line: A very well-thought-out package that is poised to create a stir among half-ton pickups.(more)

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#10 of 11 Re: 1st Dodge truck [stanoski] by elksplorer Sep 17, 2009 (7:30 am)
Replying to: stanoski (Sep 16, 2009 6:07 pm) You may not be aware that Dodge increased the hp AND economy of the Hemi engine for the 2009 model year. The new engine has 390 hp (vs the previous engine's 340 hp). Also, the 2009 engine electronically shuts down 4 cylinders when the truck is in cruise/light load situations... The best I've been able to achieve on my new 1500 Laramie 4x4 crew cab is 19 mpg... but I've only owned it for a month and 1/2, and I'm still driving it a bit more ...aggressively ...than (I think) I will ...after the newness wears off. I just love to hear/feel that Hemi wind up!
#11 of 11 2009 Ram 1500 simply the best!!! by morganv Sep 26, 2009 (3:33 pm)
Growing up nobody in my house noone could even yhink of owning anything other than a chevy or my dad would kick us out of the house. when i married my new husband drove fords and we owned them for over 20 years. well we just got tired of the repairs and poor reliability and when the dealer gave us trouble on some warranty repairs we decided to get something else. while at a horse show in ohio my windstar blew the motor and the transmission we traded for a nissan titan which we had for about 6 months. that truck had all sorts of problems and the nissan dealer was absolutely no help at all. we knew a lot of people that owned dodge trucks and they seem to have less problems with them that we saw with ford or chevy so we bought a 2002 ram. my husband decided to trade it for a 2003 ram with the hemi engine a year later. we then bought a 2004 3/4 ton and then a 2006 1 ton dually to haul the big trailer. the 2002 had to have the instrument cluster replaced, but that was the only repair weve done on all three in 7 years. we just traded the 2003 which had 151,000 on it. it took some time to break the engine in but the last 50000 miles or so the gas mileage was pretty good. our new 2009 laramie hemi ram is smooth as silk, has more power and gives even better mileage i just filled up tonight and got 18.3 on this last tank and very little was on the 4 lane. we occasionally ride in other trucks and i don't think its even close anymore. the ram is just a far better built truck. this is the first ruck weve even owned that we can't wait to take a drive in. we have 14,000 on the 2009 and love it