Report: Dodge Ram Runner kit will be street legal

There are some big news buzzing around the Ram Runner Concept at the moment. We have a good while now that Chrysler plans to offer to a kit Ram 1500 Pickup attacked in the desert animal seen above convert known, but according to PickupTrucks.com, the engineers have managed to pull a few stunts to make the vehicle completely street legal .

The biggest hangup was that the conversion kit, the vehicle, the track is 68.2 inches front and 67.5 inches extended again to 77.5 and 74.5 inches respectively. To make everything right and proper rain with Jonny Law, Chrysler had a few fender markers illuminated the name of security to throw.

This is good news and all, but there's more. It turns out, Chrysler is mulling the idea of selling the Ram runner as a turn-key vehicle rather than a bunch of parts from your local dealer. If the car manufacturer decides to go that route, you can expect the company to an outside developer to turn standard Ram 1500 models in a full-blooded Ford F-150 SVT Raptor fighter konvertieren.v

Dodge brand to ditch cross-hair grille?

Now, Dodge Ram and separate groups under the umbrella of Chrysler, Dodge plans to mark his crosshair grille phase of its product range. The crosshairs nose will remain a part of the Ram truck lineup for the foreseeable future, but Dodge vehicles, a new identity, to have not yet been revealed.

Ralph Gilles, Dodge, CEO and chief designer for the Chrysler Group, recently spoke Automotive News about the decision. Gilles said that this movement will take some time, but develop the products and go in a different direction. In other words, no matter which way Dodge has his style, do not expect any changes in wholesale to far to look for the model year 2011.

Report: Ram Trucks will not offer hybrid pickup to consumers

Were you waiting long promised Ram Chrysler Hybrid Pickup? Bad news: found common ground in conversation with PluginCars.com, Ram Trucks CEO Fred Diaz, that idea on the ice when he said bluntly. "Truckers do not want to buy hybrids"

We are not sure truck buyers as much anti-hybrid, since they are not willing to cough, the necessary money to bring are useful in hybrid technology to their pickups. Either way, General Motors full-size hybrid truck to the market on fire, and there are few signs of Chrysler would either, unless the car manufacturer to offer, they were at a very reasonable price. That seems unlikely.

For now, it seems that the only hybrid Ram pickup trucks offers have been announced recently, put in the models that were developed with the help of federal grant stimulants over a $ 48,000,000 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and a separate $ 5,000,000 grant from the Canadian government. A total of 140 PHEV Ram truck fleet customers in the coming months will be offered.

The good news for mileage-conscious buyers pickup is that Diaz suggested other technologies Fiat probably make their way into the Ram truck at some point. Multiair and light diesel as a good starting point sound ...