Pour One Out for the Ram 1500 Traditional Common Cab, Brief Field

No one appears to love or purchase common cab, quick mattress pickups anymore, however you might nonetheless get them from the Large Three if you happen to wished to. That’s beginning to change, although, as Stellantis seems to be the primary to ship off the configuration. The common cab, 6-foot, 4-inch mattress Ram 1500 Traditional is not going to return for 2023, per Mopar Insiders.

Up till now, optioning a single-row cabin and the shortest field was attainable on the Tradesman and Categorical trim ranges. Going ahead, you’ll have to decide on both an 8-foot mattress or a Quad or Crew Cab, which both method is going to value extra money. An extended mattress will solely set you again just a few hundred {dollars}, however an extended cab runs up the sticker by no less than one other $6,000, taking the 1500 Traditional proper up towards the $40,000 threshold.

This one hits near residence. I’ve hardly been the most important booster of vans on this web site (extra particularly, the concept everybody wants one), however my first automotive after I obtained my license was my brother’s ’97 Dodge Ram 1500. Common cab, quick mattress, as a result of again then your solely different was the marginally extra spacious Membership Cab. These have been the best-looking pickups. They have been additionally helpful for top schoolers who didn’t wish to be caught driving their associates all over the place, the entire time. You actually solely had house for one passenger, as a result of your buddies would reasonably die than endure the indignity of sitting within the center.

In the meantime, the present “DT” Ram, which has been with us since 2019, has by no means supplied a single cab. The writing has been on the wall for a really very long time. Ford and Chevrolet will nonetheless promote you options, to their credit score. Thoughts you, with Ford you’ll need to accept an XL or XLT spec F-150, and within the Common’s case, the one method to get such a Silverado is in Work Truck guise. Pickups at all times look finest on steelies although, so perhaps that’s not an enormous loss.

Very similar to the final gasp of the Charger and Challenger, you’ll must act quick if you wish to snap up a Ram within the Jalopnik-approved physique fashion earlier than they’re all gone. Truly, you’ll need to act even sooner. Whereas Dodge’s muscle vehicles will get a correct mannequin yr’s value of manufacturing in 2023, the very best Rams will reportedly wind down this coming January.