The yr is 2008. Issues are taking a look grim for the worldwide auto business and the remainder of the monetary international. Fuel costs are mountain climbing, sending patrons to small automobiles en masse. The North American Global Auto Display in Detroit was once nonetheless in January, and Dodge was once there with a brand new Ram 1500 pickup truck for 2009. And 16 years later, that pickup truck remains to be on sale.

Sure, the fourth-generation Dodge Ram that debuted on the display that yr remains to be to be had as a brand new truck lately. The Ram 1500 Vintage will are living for the 2024 fashion yr, a Ram spokesperson showed to Motor1. You will not in finding it at the automaker’s web site simply but, however now we have been confident that main points are being sussed out ahead of the 2024 configurator is going are living.

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As for the ones main points, that is one thing we do not need data on presently. For 2023, the Ram 1500 Vintage was once to be had in simply two trims: work-friendly Tradesman and macho-ready Warlock. Of the ones, the Tradesman presented patrons an old-school single-cab/lengthy field format, together with Quad and Workforce Cab configurations. The Warlock was once Quad or Workforce most effective.

Small adjustments to choices are imaginable, however taking into account this can be a 16-year-old platform, do not be expecting any ground-shattering changes. Each trims have a standard-issue 3.6-liter V6 with the 5.7-liter Hemi V8 presented as an improve. An eight-speed computerized handles the ability, and even though the bones date to the tip of the George W. Bush generation, there is a 7.0-inch touchscreen within the middle stack. And there are buttons. A number of buttons.

The suspected loss of adjustments additionally way the bottom value most likely may not exchange a lot, both. Frankly, it is the reason why the Ram 1500 Vintage remains to be a factor. 2023 fashions began at $34,340, together with Ram’s $1,995 vacation spot price. That is roughly $6,000 not up to the most affordable 2024 Ram 1500, and $4,000 underneath entry-level F-150s and Silverado 1500s. For cost-conscious patrons in need of a brand new full-size truck, that makes the Vintage a tempting morsel.

Nonetheless, when Ram introduced the previous truck could be constructed along the fifth-gen fashion again in 2019, no person on group of workers anticipated it to stay round this lengthy. With a facelifted (and Hemi-less) Ram coming for 2025, may just 2024 in the end be the tip for the 1500 Vintage? Take a look at again with us subsequent yr to determine.