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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    Magic Spring Dust?
    I thought they were coated with Massa's DNA.
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    Image of pinzgauer pinzgauer
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    If you RTFA, it's not as much of a scam as it's positioned:

    "Benvenuti also said Dodge truck engineers followed new testing protocols established by the Society of Automotive Engineers and a group of truck manufacturers to standardize tow testing....."

    And

    "Dodge isn’t the first manufacturer to magically increase the tow rating of its half-ton pickup without changing hardware. Ford pulled a similar move when it upped the 2008 Ford F-150's max tow rating to 11,000 pounds from 9,900 pounds the year before, after the 2007 Toyota Tundra arrived with a 10,800-pound tow rating."

    Not to defend Dodge, nor that the image with Ray as a pixie is not funny...... it's just not quite as insidious as positioned.

    Even changing tires or wheels can change the GCWR and thus tow ratings from year to year.
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    acarr260 promoted this comment pinzgauer was starred pinzgauer was unstarred
    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    07/29/09

    @pinzgauer: I was surprised to see the differences in tow ratings for the 17" wheels vs the 10" wheels. I guess it does effectively change the gearing of the truck though.
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    07/29/09

    @pinzgauer: I don't think I look anything like that pixie. I never wear two-tone shirts!
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    Image of pinzgauer pinzgauer
    07/29/09


    @Ray Wert: Do I have to say it???? It's the hair, dude! :-)
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    So Ray, this is why you needed a poster who has Photoshop skills. (I know that will cost me some good will in here.... ahhhh but what the hell, Ray can take it as much as he gives it)
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    Since we are talking about dust..how about angel dust and PCP?
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    07/29/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: That only increases your ability to tow police officers...
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    So if you happen to tow 10,001 lbs, what...the truck just explodes???
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    IN THE FACE! promoted this comment bmoreDLJ was starred bmoreDLJ was unstarred
    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    07/29/09

    @bmoreDLJ: Actually it will slowly begin disintegrating down to its basic elements. But Dodges already do that quickly enough so you shouldn't try testing this.
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    Edited by IN THE FACE! at 07/29/09 5:44 PM IN THE FACE! was starred IN THE FACE! was unstarred
    Image of BigHarv BigHarv
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    This one time, I did a new lab experiment, crunched some numbers, and came up with an acceptable if low end result. Since the experiment was a new set up and I had a deadline for submitting the lab setup and expected results, I turned it in, and while some students got higher numbers, the science was still sound and it didn't keep anyone from performing the new experiment successfully and safely.

    Over the course of the next year, I had some spare time, so I repeated the experiment I had laid out for the students. Low and behold, I found that my original results were too low! What to do, I thought? Right now, the numbers aren't quite right-I shouldn't list anything less than my best answers, even if what I have down isn't hurting anyone and errors on the side of caution. Plus, all the manuals we printed off already have my original results in them! I decided to just put the more accurate numbers in next year's edition.

    Then some snarky, nitpicking blog noticed my changes and made some insulting photoshops. Thank goodness I corrected my previous work.
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    Government has a stake in Chrysler. Numbers start magically changing with no explanation.

    Yup, sounds about right.
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    Image of Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    This doesn't shock me a bit. For years I've wondered why my FWD sedan only allowed 2,000#, while Europeans with the same car were rated up to...wait for it...2,000kg!

    People can make all the Nanny State jokes they want, but the litigators own this country. Six of one, half dozen of another.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/29/09

    @Ash78: I assumed the rating difference was simply due to Europeans being vastly superior drivers.
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    07/29/09

    @beercheck - Commentin' Dirty: Nah, they are just better at maths. It's all that metric system they use.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/29/09

    @Hi, I'm Scandinavian Flick and I: *applause*
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    Edited by beercheck at 07/29/09 2:22 PM beercheck was starred beercheck was unstarred
    Image of maximum-sienna maximum-sienna
    07/29/09

    @Hi, I'm Scandinavian Flick and I'm gonna rip your coil springs out.
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    FЯeeMan promoted this comment maximum-sienna was starred maximum-sienna was unstarred
    Image of FЯeeMan FЯeeMan
    07/30/09

    @maximum-sienna: Careful, I don't think Massa and the Ferrari garage will find that terribly funny these days...

    Otherwise, well played!
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    I guess they finally figured out how to make Viagra work for truck owners in the 909 area code.
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    Image of JazlynLamia JazlynLamia
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    wow I guess you fools have never heard of clever marketing before. You Jalo readers if you just read the other thread about this youd realize this whole magical increase shit is being blown out of proportion. Jalo thinks its some magical work of merlin or some shit.Um hello Chrysler is aware that people will make a truck with better towing capacity. SOooO they lie about the numbers. Jeez some of you people on this site are just so damn naive.
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    beercheck - Commentin' Dirty promoted this comment JazlynLamia was starred JazlynLamia was unstarred
    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/29/09

    I'm sorry, everybody. I had to. JazlynLamia can help us help ourselves!
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    07/29/09

    @beercheck - Commentin' Dirty: Haha, I was just about to approve it myself. This is just too damn funny.
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    Image of Braff Braff
    07/29/09

    @beercheck - Commentin' Dirty: you typically Jalo...
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    07/29/09

    @beercheck - Commentin' Dirty: Yea and verily, JazlynLamia will show us the path to enlightenment. And a golden age will dawn over Jalopnivania.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    07/29/09

    @BrAff: Didn't she have a thing with Ben Affleck?
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    07/29/09

    @SCROGGS!!!: Maybe we will finally get some good cotomer sevis for a change...
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    Image of Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II
    07/29/09

    So Dodge can sprinkle this on people and they will defend Dodge to the death on a blog that is roughly 90% jokes about the editor fucking a car or Wes having a nice ass.

    They will never go bankrupt now.
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    Jo Schmo *Now with more bacon! promoted this comment Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was starred Prawo Jazdy and The Velocity Trumpets: I miss Deartháir II was unstarred
    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    07/29/09

    @SCROGGS!!!: I, for one, welcome our new overlord JazlynLamia!
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    07/29/09

    @beercheck - Commentin' Dirty: Cast in the name of Jalopnik...ye baited by the troll.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    07/29/09

    @JazlynLamia: Wow, thanks for putting all of us in our collective place!
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    07/29/09

    @pauljones: Some trolls deserve to be heard. How else will we continue to have good "Auto Blog Troll of the Day" candidates?
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    07/29/09

    @beercheck - Commentin' Dirty: yeah, see, this is the type of comment I do NOT want to see promoted. It's not funny so much as it's sad.
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    Image of FЯeeMan FЯeeMan
    07/30/09

    @Ray Wert: Uh oh. Beercheck's gonna get fired!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    I would have believed you if you'd said angel dust.
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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    This stuff works better than Enzyte!!
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    I thought it was the tooth fairy?
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    Screw towing let me sprinkle some of it on my valve springs for some wicked high rpm capability.
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    Image of TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
    07/29/09

    In reply to The Secret Behind The 2010 Dodge Ram's New Tow Rating
    Is it limited to just trucks?
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