FACT! During the Second World War, Dodge produced heavy jeeps and aircraft engines. One of these Dodge WC (Weapon Carrier) jeeps was delivered to the USSR, where he was nicknamed the 750-kg "Dodge Three-Quarters" load capacity. In total, more than 25,000 such cars were delivered to the Lend-Lease in the USSR, where they acquired the glory of an indestructible car.

The Power Wagon was sold through the model year. The Power Wagon was the first mass-produced 4x4 light truck, and represents a significant predecessor to the many modern four wheel drive trucks in use today. Special features of the Power Wagon include:. You can only buy it with the 5. They perform very well on the street or in the dirt.

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Diesel Power Magazine cool trucks. The axles, the tires, the suspension, the winch, and even the diesel engine were all conceptualized back in the late '90s. Yet when the truck was first conceived, the diesel engine under the hood wasn't the new 6. It was actually a 7. We know it may sound crazy to those of you who don't remember the retro-styled diesel Power Wagon that debuted at the Detroit Auto Show in January In hindsight, the Power Wagon concept made perfect sense.

Chrysler combined its year-old icon of strength and utility with the latest in diesel technology to test the waters and gauge the interest in the diesels of the future.

Chrysler was clearly ahead of its time, and was one of the first car companies to introduce a diesel designed for ultra-low sulfur fuel. Back then, ULSD was thought of as a "designer fuel. For those of you not intimately familiar with this vehicle the truck's roots date back to , there's a very good reason for that.

You can only buy it with the 5. While the Hemi is a fine engine in its own right, most Diesel Power readers couldn't care less about a truck that doesn't come with a diesel under the hood.

Reintroduced as an '05 model, the Power Wagon is based on the Ram pickup truck and features forged Alcoa aluminum wheels, inch BFGoodrich All-Terrain tires, Bilstein shocks, off-road-tuned spring rates, 4. That option sheet reads like an off-roader's wish list, but what has kept the Power Wagon off the Diesel Power radar is the lack of a Cummins engine. The short answer is the intercooler and radiator packaging for the 5.

That makes sense to us, but we also suspect the rear AAM axle instead of the AAM axle that the diesel trucks get may decrease the cargo and towing capacity below what diesel truck buyers expect.

In past years, we would have also told you that the front AAM axle's selectable locker and axleshafts wouldn't have been up to the Cummins' torque. This theory seems to have been proved wrong by the fact that this Power Wagon was fitted with inch tall tires, and we witnessed the truck being bashed on for a full week in the off-road mecca of Moab, Utah.

If you ask us though, we'd say that Chrysler engineers and designers have been itching to build this diesel-powered package for decades, and they finally got the green light. If we gaze into our diesel crystal ball, we think this truck could suggest that the new Dodge Ram diesel due to debut in may be available some time in or with a Power Wagon package. We doubt the inch tires will make it to production, but or inch tires could easily be stuffed under the new body. We've been waiting 10 years to get to drive a diesel Power Wagon, and now that we have, we'll hang on a couple more years to see if Dodge is really serious about offering one.