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The unibody compact pickup truck sector is now one of the freshest across both parts of the American continent. To the North, we have the seemingly unilateral battle between the ultra-popular Mexico-born, electrified Ford Maverick and the America-made, stylish Hyundai Santa Cruz.
To the South, meanwhile, where the love for this smaller type of workhorse never subsided, we now have a clash between the traditional values of two-door unibody Utes (coupe-utility) and the practicality of regular four-door pickup trucks. New arrivals in the field include the quirky-designed, third-generation Chevrolet Montana, as well as the new 268-hp Ram Rampage superstar.
Interestingly, US fans of Ute coupe-utility vehicles might remember this is not the first time the American carmaker has used the nameplate. Albeit in the past, it was called Dodge Rampage, and it was actually a subcompact unibody Ute based on Chrysler's L architecture produced solely between 1982 and 1984 alongside its rebadged sibling, the Plymouth Scamp.
Naturally, back then, it fought against other Utes still alive on the US market, such as the Chevy El Camino, Volkswagen Rabbit Sportruck, or the Subaru BRAT – as the Ford Ranchero was already traveling along the plains of car Valhalla since 1979. Anyway, perhaps some of the fans of the old Dodge Rampage may not like the four-door unibody compact pickup truck treatment bestowed upon the modern Ram Rampage, right? And some of them might even want to do something about it and take matters into their hands.
Or, instead, at the tip of their CGI brush, as is the case here with someone dwelling around the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. Jim, the virtual artist known as jlord8 on social media, has finally noticed there's a new Ram unibody truck doing some Rampage around South America, and "for (him) the Rampage needs to be a two-door small truck." Thus, he proceeded accordingly to rewrite the 2025 Ram Rampage R/T into a unibody coupe utility with vintage-style white tri-spoke wheels, a longer bed, and just two doors. Oh, and it also sits lower than ever, making it a 268-hp sporty truck, indeed.
So, what do you think? Is it better this way – and do we need to give it our CGI hall pass? Or is the Brazil-born 2024 Ram Rampage too cool as a 4-door unibody compact pickup truck based on the Stellantis Small Wide 4×4 LWB platform, and it definitely needs to be brought to North America, as well? There, it could easily brawl with the electrified Ford Maverick and stylish Hyundai Santa Cruz while towering above them with its feisty 2.0-liter GME Hurricane 4 turbo engine and nine-speed ZF automatic transmission, right?
Interestingly, US fans of Ute coupe-utility vehicles might remember this is not the first time the American carmaker has used the nameplate. Albeit in the past, it was called Dodge Rampage, and it was actually a subcompact unibody Ute based on Chrysler's L architecture produced solely between 1982 and 1984 alongside its rebadged sibling, the Plymouth Scamp.
Naturally, back then, it fought against other Utes still alive on the US market, such as the Chevy El Camino, Volkswagen Rabbit Sportruck, or the Subaru BRAT – as the Ford Ranchero was already traveling along the plains of car Valhalla since 1979. Anyway, perhaps some of the fans of the old Dodge Rampage may not like the four-door unibody compact pickup truck treatment bestowed upon the modern Ram Rampage, right? And some of them might even want to do something about it and take matters into their hands.
Or, instead, at the tip of their CGI brush, as is the case here with someone dwelling around the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. Jim, the virtual artist known as jlord8 on social media, has finally noticed there's a new Ram unibody truck doing some Rampage around South America, and "for (him) the Rampage needs to be a two-door small truck." Thus, he proceeded accordingly to rewrite the 2025 Ram Rampage R/T into a unibody coupe utility with vintage-style white tri-spoke wheels, a longer bed, and just two doors. Oh, and it also sits lower than ever, making it a 268-hp sporty truck, indeed.
So, what do you think? Is it better this way – and do we need to give it our CGI hall pass? Or is the Brazil-born 2024 Ram Rampage too cool as a 4-door unibody compact pickup truck based on the Stellantis Small Wide 4×4 LWB platform, and it definitely needs to be brought to North America, as well? There, it could easily brawl with the electrified Ford Maverick and stylish Hyundai Santa Cruz while towering above them with its feisty 2.0-liter GME Hurricane 4 turbo engine and nine-speed ZF automatic transmission, right?
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