In the late 1980s, Dodge garnered another industry first by shoving a massive Cummins turbodiesel - designed for tractors and big rigs - into their full size pickups, greatly increasing the truck's capacity to compensate for the massive, torque-filled engine. Far more advanced than the Navistar diesels used by Ford or the GM diesels, which had been used for years before the mighty Cummins was planted in Dodges, it required a greater truck infrastructure, and it could be argued that it was unable to be fully used until the extra-heavy-duty 1994 Ram appeared in 1993.
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