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Stellantis is recalling well over 200,000 vehicles in North America and other markets, including 17,462 in Canada, to fix a problem with their brakes. Affected models include the 2022 Dodge Durango , Ram 2500HD and Ram 3500HD , more specifically units built from April 2021 to December 2022. According to …

US engine maker Cummins has agreed to pay $1.67 billion USD to settle claims it installed devices to defeat emissions controls in hundreds of thousands of pickup truck engines, the Justice Department said Friday. The penalty is the largest civil fine ever for a violation of the Clean Air Act, …

Problems with brand new vehicles—including next-generation models—are, well, nothing new. Some of them are being rushed to market, while others may lack quality control at the manufacturer or supplier level. We’ve seen at least three more examples in the past few days. First, as many as 64,913 Ram pickups need …

Stellantis is recalling more than 340,000 Ram Heavy Duty pickups globally because they could potentially catch fire. Nearly 22,000 among them are in Canada. Affected models include 2021-2023 Ram 2500 , 3500 , 4500 and 5500 pickups and chassis-cabs, all of which are equipped with the 6.7-litre six-cylinder Cummins turbo-diesel …

Stellantis has announced a recall on approximately 1.4 million 2019-2022 Ram pickups covering the 1500 , 2500 and 3500 model lines. Most of these are in the U.S.—1.23 million units to be exact—but a significant number (around 120,000) are in Canada. The rest are split between Mexico and outside of …

Stellantis has announced a recall on more than 212,000 Ram pickups in the U.S. and over 42,000 in Canada to replace their side-curtain airbags. A U.S. investigation has discovered certain vehicles may be equipped with airbag inflators that were contaminated by moisture during the supplier’s manufacturing process, once again bringing …

You think Ram would let the competition rule the heavy-duty pickup game? Wrong. With the Ford Super Duty and Chevrolet Silverado HD now offering towing capacities of up to 37,000 pounds and 36,000 pounds, respectively, the company decided to make key upgrades to the Ram Heavy Duty for 2021, elevating …

As we’ve said repeatedly, full-size pickup manufacturers can’t afford to take a break. And when a major event like the annual State Fair of Texas comes around, every one of them must seize the opportunity to present something new. In the case of FCA, two special editions of the Ram …

Competition is so fierce in the full-size pickup segment that manufacturers can no longer afford to stay put for just one model year. For example, even though the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra were completely redesigned a year ago, General Motors wasted no time in announcing changes and updates for …

We know that manufacturers don't play around when it comes to big trucks. If they can claim that their rig has a few horsepower or pound-feet of torque more than its competitors, they won't hesitate to mention it. And if all this power results in an increase in towing capacity, …