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Why Dodge Drivers Totally Suck

Posted Jun 25, 08 11:46 AM CDT in Arts & Living,  Opinion,  Glossies 

(Newser) – Of all the rules of the road, there is one cardinal, hands-down, no-exceptions tenet: “The guy who ignores the stop sign, who blasts past me in a no-passing zone, who plays chicken on a potholed strip of county two-lane, drives a Ram,” Benjamin Percy writes in Esquire. Dodge may be dead last in truck sales, but that doesn't dampen a Ram driver's spirit: It only gets him going.

“Driving a Dodge means what it used to mean to drive a Harley,” writes Percy, who inherited a thing for the trucks, and aggression that goes with it,  from his  father, “before all the lawyers and dentists bought leather and took to the open road.” On long trips, Dad even  kept his .357 balanced on the console. "When I once asked him why, he said, 'You never know.' "

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A 2007 Ram 3500 pickup truck. Dodge drivers are assholes, Benjamin Percy writes in Esquire.   (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Dodge Ram 1500 pickup trucks are shown on a dealership new vehicle lot in Detroit.   (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
The company logo shines off the nose of an unsold 2007 Charger at a Dodge dealership in the southeast Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo.   (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Sun gleams off the chrome of the grille on an unsold 2007 Ram 1500 pickup truck on the lot of a Dodge agency in the south Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo.   (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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