Rumored to return ever since it was discontinued in 2011, the Ram Dakota has yet to make a comeback, and the rumor mill has been rather quiet in 2022. But while it remains uncertain whether Ram will ...

Dodge Cracked the code on the midsize truck in 1987 with the first Dakota. Its calling card was the availability of a V-8 in a category largely populated by big fours and V-6s. Dodge’s first Dakota ...

Now that mid-size pickups are back in business as far as the U.S. market is concerned, Ram surely regrets that it left the Dakota for dead. On the upside, Ram head Mike Manley recently let it slip ...

Got $23,000 burning a hole in your pocket? How do you feel about severe oversteer? Do you, in any way, value your life? And how close do you live to Boise, Idaho? Depending on your answers to these ...

Middle kids occasionally get a raw deal. Sometimes, however, they achieve the Goldilocks Effect: They're not too big and not too small; they're just right. That's the Dodge Dakota's lot in life. It's ...

Well for starters, the Dakota is just a well-sized, useful and solid pickup truck. When it was newly launched for the 1997 model year, the second-generation of the Dakota was quite a bit smaller than ...

Designing and building a new engine from scratch is a monstrously expensive and time-consuming undertaking for a vehicle manufacturer, and the industry has a long history of adding to and subtracting ...

Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Dodge brothers built engines long before they created an automotive line of their own. In fact, Dodge supplied engines for major brands ...

The owner of a 2007-09 Dodge Dakota with a 3.7-liter engine and 42RLE automatic may come into your store with a complaint that the transmission won't shift out of second gear after an engine start.