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2008 Dodge Dakota pickup truck review
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Nov 10, 2024
2008 Dodge Dakota pickup truck review, from 2008: we put the truck through its paces, with its new upgraded 4.7 Corsair engine
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my name is Dave and I'm here to show you
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some of the features of the new Dodge
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Dakota first of all let's lift up the
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seat inside you will find this terribly
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clever little Arrangement and watch
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unfold and it turns to a little milk
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trate and you can't just get these at
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your local Dairy like you used to when
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you were in college maybe or they passed
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all those
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laws but you can get them at the Dodge
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dealer so that you can have them prilled
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with all your stuff one for fishing
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tackle one for
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tools a little harder to get back in and
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they are to get
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out but you can do
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it and then you just unfold
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it probably a little more gracefully as
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you get some practice and there you go
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nice under seat
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storage and the seat is
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still pretty comfortable
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although you have to take off your hat
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if you're going to lean over this way
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you look over this way you got plenty of
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head see your gas mileage and
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such press on reset and it's goes back
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to
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zero can also um get it in metric so we
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know that we can go 100 km with 18.4 L
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of fuel and if you step through you see
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that there's distance to
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empty yeah a odometer reading that's
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basically another trip odometer
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estimated time since the last time I
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pressed
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reset and we can just shut off the
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display completely or we can put
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on the compass heading and the
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temperature outside this is for cups
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that have a
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handle this is for your
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coins other stuff and these little cup
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holders also come
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out and you can either wash them or use
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the space underneath as a great big open
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console and if that
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fails you still
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have your little telephone slot over
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here for your cell phone or you can
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shove an iPod into it and have a wire
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running off to the
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radio which is a little ungainly console
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is down
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here with its little CD carrier in the
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bottom and its own little power outlet
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it's got a rather nice dashboard here
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fairly plain but still somewhat sporty
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and extremely easy to
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read starts right up with that nice
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modern engine
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sound and revs very
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quickly now what about this U connect
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you've heard so much about let's take a
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quick look
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connect so we operate to you connect he
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making a call available options are call
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dial phone book redial emergency Towing
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Assistance or you connect
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setup call sorry the phone is not
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available one of the nice things about
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trucks is that they tend to be a little
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bit more generous than cars with the sun
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visors in this
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case they pull out and go back in again
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along the slot which gives you a lot of
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extra
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space now the ride of the Dakota
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is actually surprisingly nice if you're
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on a gentle road but on a concrete road
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like this it gets very stiff and busy
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it's still cushioned pretty well but you
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really do feel the bumps and you feel
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the road surface as you go
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along when you have a nasty B hole then
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it comes through all the
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way but a nice smooth Road it gives you
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a nice smooth
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ride and the really good sound
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insulation
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helps the engine has an awful lot of
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punch but it's
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quiet gas mileage on the other hand
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isn't that far away from an
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SRT8 part of that the
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aerodynamics and part of that is the
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fact that you don't have the multiple
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displacement system on this engine it's
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a 4.7 L V8 it's a flex fuel engine
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straight from the fact
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so if you ever find 85 you can actually
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put it in and bur and we're going to
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merge onto the highway
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now very easy to
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drive and it always has
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punch so you hit the gas and you
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move
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punch means that when you punch the gas
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it responds pretty quickly cornering is
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really surprisingly
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good so we with none of the body roll as
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you see on that Explorer in front of
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us
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