The interior was updated and included a new bench seat and a completely new dashboard and an instrument cluster with an optional three-pod design - a speedometer in the center, with the two side pods containing an ammeter on the top left, a temperature gauge on the bottom left, a fuel gauge on the top right and an oil pressure gauge bottom right. Engine choices were pared down to the 225 slant-6 and 318 and 360 V8s. The new model introduced larger wraparound tail lamps, dual rectangular headlamps, and squared-off body lines.

Externally, the first-generation Rams were facelifted versions of the previous generation Dodge D-Series pickups introduced in 1972. They also were offered along with 6.5 ft (2.0 m) and 8 ft (2.4 m) bed lengths and 'Utiline' and 'Sweptline' styled boxes along with standard boxes. The truck models were offered in standard cab, 'club' extended cab, and crew cab configurations.

Just like Ford, Dodge used 150 to indicate a half-ton truck, 250 for a three-quarter-ton truck, and 350 for a one-ton truck. Dodge kept the previous generation's model designations: D or Ram indicate two-wheel drive while W or Power Ram indicate four-wheel drive. Not all of the first-generation trucks have this ornament and is most commonly seen on four-wheel-drive models. The first-generation Dodge Ram trucks and vans introduced in October 1980 feature a Ram hood ornament first used on Dodge vehicles from 1932 until 1954. Ram trucks have been named Motor Trend magazine's Truck of the Year eight times the second-generation Ram won the award in 1994, the third-generation Ram heavy-duty won the award in 2003, the fourth-generation Ram Heavy Duty won in 2010 and the fourth-generation Ram 1500 won in 20, and the current fifth-generation Ram pickup became the first truck in history to win the award three times, winning in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The name Ram was first used in 1981 model year Dodge Trucks in October 1980, following the retiring and rebadging of the Dodge D series pickup trucks as well as B-series vans, though the company had used a ram's-head hood ornament on some trucks as early as 1933. Previously, Ram was part of the Dodge line of light trucks. The current fifth-generation Ram debuted at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, in January of that year.

The Ram pickup (marketed as the Dodge Ram until 2010) is a full-size pickup truck manufactured by Stellantis North America (formerly Chrysler Group LLC and FCA US LLC) and marketed from 2010 onwards under the Ram Trucks brand. Front-engine, rear-wheel drive / four-wheel drive

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