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With Ram 1500 Classic dropping out, what happens to Warren Assembly?
Feb 4, 2025
Here’s what the Ram 1500 Classic is, why it’s leaving, and where that leaves Warren Assembly — and the Durango connection.
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hi there uh Dave from motels here or
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rils Dave and I'm here to talk very
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briefly about the final end of the Ram
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1500 classic and we knew that this was
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coming it was predicted to end this year
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it's been out for a long time so what is
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the Ram 1500 classic anyway it's the
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previous generation Ram pickup the DS as
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it was coded and now we're on DT so why
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are we still making the DS yes because
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it's cheaper the equipment's all paid
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for the tooling is paid for the
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engineering is paid for but basically
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there's not a whole lot going on with it
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so it's cheaper to keep it going and
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have it as the inexpensive entry level
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Ram 1500 great for fleets great for
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people really use a truck for truck
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stuff and don't have to be in luxury now
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of course the uh DT Ram is a much nicer
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pickup in many ways it's more
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comfortable uh it has other many other
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advantages it's certainly more
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technologically up to-date and it's
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being refreshed for
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2025 as you probably know with the
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hurricane engines which are a lot more
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powerful uh and now a high Performance
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Engine which is available for the first
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time unless you count the SRT series uh
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V10 powered pickups and I wouldn't be
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surprised if this new one can outperform
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those it'll certainly get better gas
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mileage uh it would have to so you might
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ask what's going on with the warrn plant
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well they're going to keep on making
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wagoners and Grand wagon ears and this
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is where it gets kind of interesting is
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because the wagon ear as you know is on
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the Ram 1500 platform but in a year or
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two it is going to move over and be on
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the new sta frame or Stella frame
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depending on how you want to pronounce
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the acronym and the initials now I don't
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know about you but I have no idea what
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that will entail and how difficult that
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will be but they are going to be doing
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that refreshing it and then they're
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going to be coming out with a battery
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electric version a year later and then
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that gets a refresh along with the
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gasoline version year after that so
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they're going to be pretty busy keeping
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the wagon ear current and up toate and
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they're going to be keeping the plant
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busy making the wagon ear so far I
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haven't heard of any new product going
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in there other than the wagon ear
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electric version keeping in mind that
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the wagon ear is really for Vehicles
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it's the short wheelbase regular the
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long wheelbase regular and then a luxury
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version of each
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one now you might ask what about the
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Next Generation Durango and the answer
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is that's all in the UAW agreement it's
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going to be staying right at Jefferson
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and it's going to be getting an upgrade
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uh it's going to be getting redesigned
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probably it'll join the new Grand
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Cherokee platform but it might play Lea
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frog and go up to Stella large uh no way
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of knowing right now it's uh not very
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explicit in the plans what's going to
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happen except that in
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2026 there will be a new Durango and
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that's pretty much what we
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know also that it will be going on
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through at least 2028 and that's when
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the labor agreement ends and from there
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who knows what will happen it's not
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me it's might not even be the people at
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stantis because the market has a lot to
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say about this you know if suddenly the
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Durango sales crash probably won't
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continue past 2028 on the other hand if
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it booms and everybody loves it then
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yeah it'll definitely continue so this
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is what we've got going on in the future
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that we know about uh Warren truck is
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not going to be shut down anytime soon
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even though the Ram 1500 classic which
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is only made at Warr truck and which is
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the only truck made at Warr truck other
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than Wagoner that's going away but the
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Wagoner is not going away and it's not
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leaving Warren so Warren stays open
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Jefferson stays open Sterling Heights
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stays open at least through 2028 and
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after that who knows we'll find out
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