Strange siting near Flagstaff

[Jon54]

Anybody got a guess?

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[wanted33]

My guess.....some higher altitude testing since there's some nice high spots out that way.

 

[Jon54]

My guess.....some higher altitude testing since there's some nice high spots out that way.

We’ve played leapfrog for a couple hundred miles on I40 north.

 

[Jon54]

https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/i-spy-a-ranger.9181/#post-169213

He had some sort of electronic gizmo on the dash. Bigger than a GPS

 

[Nevada_Bob]

Here's a rendering showing the front

 

[dtech]

hideous

 

[Cape Cruiser]

looks like a Ram to me

 

[AzScorpion]

looks like a Ram to me

New Dakota maybe?

 

[Deleted member 1634]

New Dakota maybe?

That was my first thought. The taillights screamed Ram to me. But it was hard to tell anything else from OPs picture. If @Nevada_Bob's picture is the same thing, then yeah, I'd say new Dakota or full-size Ram. Hard to tell scale in those pictures as well. Seems odd though to have the face so uncovered like that on something so new like a Dakota though, but who knows.

 

[AzScorpion]

That was my first thought. The taillights screamed Ram to me. But it was hard to tell anything else from OPs picture. If @Nevada_Bob's picture is the same thing, then yeah, I'd say new Dakota or full-size Ram. Hard to tell scale in those pictures as well. Seems odd though to have the face so uncovered like that on something so new like a Dakota though, but who knows.

I don't keep up with Dodge and not sure if they're redesigning the full size Ram but I know the new Dakota is coming out so I thought it might be that. Either way it's a Dodge and..... ?

 

[dtech]

this looks better - the "Tremor" trim, although that name might better fit that fuggly truck shown in the above posts

 

[P. A. Schilke]

Phil !!! Is that you out for a drive incognito ?

Hi RR,

Nope! Not me....would not touch a FIAT (Fix It Again Tony)....

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

 

[Pinepig]

I don't keep up with Dodge and not sure if they're redesigning the full size Ram but I know the new Dakota is coming out so I thought it might be that. Either way it's a Dodge and..... ?

I bought a new Dakota 4x4 with the 3.9 V6 in 1990, loved that truck except having to put a new tranny in it every 90k miles like clockwork. Sold it when it was coming up on #3.

I only have this one picture of it behind my future wife and my dad ( RIP pops ) on the very first day he got to drive his 54 Corvette when we finished the restoration 2 days before he drove it to Hot August Nights up in Reno.

This was it 9 months prior.

That was a fun project.

Nice to have all these new options coming out, makes everybody try just a bit harder to give us what we want in a vehicle.

 

[Deleted member 1634]

2022 Ram Dakota Spy Shot

So it really is just like a mini Ram in design and proportions then. I wonder how long it took them to come up with that... I guess we'll see how they make it it's own. I'm interested is seeing it turns out being.

 

[dtech]

Funny how they refer to the new Ram Dakota as the "Ranger Fighter". It suggests that the Ranger is the one to beat out of the mid-sized truck pack.

I had a 2003 Dakota (Dodge) before I bought my Ranger and I gotta say, it was a great truck. Still, my Ranger is by far, the best truck I have ever owned (so far). Still, it will be interesting to see what Ram does with this new Dakota. If they're striving to compete or beat the Ranger, then this could get very interesting. They have a high bar to reach.

Ranger Fighter
Ram Dakota 2
Ram Dakota

Should sell if Ram prices it like their full sized trucks - below Ford and Chevy. Bout 3 yrs back a long time F-150 guy I know shows up one day with the Ram turbo diesel, says it was nearly $10k less than the Ford he was planning to buy, he's in my huntin club and sure thing a few months later another F-150 guy shows up with a Ram. Thus far they like em. I admit to liking the ram's horn taillights, Ford or Chevy can't compete there.

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