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A coil spring five-link rear suspension replaces the leaf springs for the 1500. This was the first traditional full-size pickup truck with rear coil springs since the 1972 Chevrolet/GMC C10 and C20 (although the Chevrolet Avalanche, an SUV-based pickup truck, used rear coil springs).
Dodge Dakota Sport Quad Cab Dodge Dakota 5.9 R/T Extended Cab, with the colour-keyed front bumper. Gone for 2000 was the 8-foot bed on the regular cab, but new for that year was the Quad Cab. Four-door Quad Cab models had a slightly shorter bed, 63 in (1,600 mm), but riding on the Club Cab's 131.0 in (3,327 mm) wheelbase.
Chrysler Uconnect Web: has a wi-fi hot-spot [3] with a 150-foot range [4] via a 3G EV-DO cellular network from Autonet Mobile [3] It includes Bluetooth for cell phones, [5] a hard drive, Sirius XM TV and satellite, and GPS. [6] It is a fee-based service that includes a free trial with a new car.
The 5.9 L came factory-installed in 1998–2001 Dodge Dakota R/T pickups and 2000–2003 Dodge Durango R/T SUVs. It was also installed in the Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 5.9, only available in 1998. The 5.9 L Magnum was available until the 2003 model year, when it was replaced with the 5.7 L Hemi V8 engine .
Ram Trucks was established as a division of Chrysler in 2010, as a spin-off from Dodge, and using the name of the Dodge Ram line of pickups that is now sold under the Ram banner. [6] According to Chrysler, the Ram Trucks brand will concentrate on "real truck customers," rather than casual truck buyers who buy trucks for image or style.
The Dodge Sidewinder was a concept car shown by Dodge in 1997 at the SEMA convention [1] in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was based on a design by Chrysler 's Mark Allen, [ 2 ] only two years after he graduated from design school.
The Banks Sidewinder is a land speed record vehicle that was built by Gale Banks Engineering in 2001. Based on a Dodge Dakota pickup truck, the Banks Sidewinder became the fastest pickup ever when it set a speed record of 213.583 mph (343.729 km/h) at Bonneville in October 2001.
The California Highway patrol was so impressed with the performance of the new Dodge they ordered 200 vehicles with the D-500 option to be used on patrol duty. This was Chrysler's first move into specialized Police cars, and its success paved the way for decades of special police packages. Dodge also offered a D-500-1 that was strictly for racing.