lawnspecialties wrote:
Did you make this up on your own or was this a copy and paste from some cheesy column?
Great truck and great engine, no doubt. But this post looks like it was written by the Ram folks themselves.
History and facts speak for themselves, and are not makeupable.
Cummins is considered to have started in 1919. And 1989 was the first year that a Cummins engine found it's way under the hood of a Ram.
I did not, and do not, "copy and paste" without making appropriate attribution, so the "cheese" that you perceive is all mine... which I'll take as a compliment, meaning that there might be still hope for an old codger like me yet for a retirement job in a marketing department somewhere.
Incidentally, I currently own 4 Ford trucks, and have owned twice as many Fords in the past, if that helps dismiss the notion that I am somehow loyal to the Ram brand, which I have in fact never owned even one iteration of.
Yet that does not in any way diminish my delight and continuing curiosity regarding the successful partnership that Cummins has maintained with Ram over the last 27 years, that by the end of next year will have surpassed the length of time that Ford collaborated with International in providing diesel powerplants to pickup trucks.
What is even more interesting however, with Cummins in particular, is the influence of their simultaneous partnership with Nissan. The lead engineer for Cummins publically commented that the Japanese automotive company forced Cummins to focus on quality control in an unprecedented way. Far more so than Paccar or Dodge ever did.
One cannot help but think that the quality focused Japanese style of engineering and manufacturing that Cummins was forced to step up to in the Nissan diesel that was 10 years in the making... will percolate through all of Cummins future products, making the 2019 centennial B series engine all the more reliable and road worthy for RV'rs.
