If they don't put it it, I'll be p.o.'ed. Why would they put it in the
durrango and not the dakota? Theyre the same chassis! Although, theres
always crate motors
Gary Hedlin
<jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote in message
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>
>
> I was in Wal-Mart this evening to pick up some cat food and wandered
> by the magazine rack. There was a picture on the cover of Truck Trend
> of this green pickup that looked like a new Ram. I picked it up and it
> was the upcoming redesign of the Ford F-150! This is becoming a real
> trend - Dodge redesigns their trucks and Ford copies it as closely as
> they dare! It actually looked like someone cloned a Ram and changed the
> side windows a bit! What threw it off was windows and the little oval
> logo on the grill. Just amazing! :-P If imitation is the most
> sincere form of flattery, I guess Dodge owes Ford a word of thanks. ;-)
>
> Anyway, the cover story was the pickups which will be coming out
> shortly (redesigns, etc.) They had a blurb in there about the new
> Dak and Durango. I think they said the Durango would get the 5.7
> HEMI, but about the Dak they said (paraphrasing) "Although the tech
> engineers say the 5.7 HEMI will fit in the new Dakota's engine bay,
> there are no plans to date to offer a performance package for that
> platform."
>
> If true, there are going to be a lot of dissapointed future Dak
> owners out there! From the statment above, it could be construed
> that not only will the Dak not get the HEMI, but the R/T will be
> killed as well - "no performance package".
>
> A pretty stupid move, if true. Doesn't affect me too much; I don't
> buy new Chrysler products because of the MB takeover fiasco, but I
> know a lot of people are looking forward to HEMI Daks. (Granted,
> the source *is* Truck Trend (Motor Trend) so I guess you have to take
> it with a grain of salt, but still...)
>
> Just wanted to pass that along.
>
> --
>
> -Jon-
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