Dodge Ram 50

The Dodge Ram 50 was a compact pickup truck sold in the United States by Dodge, the Chrysler Corporation division, as a captive import built by Mitsubishi Motors. It was badge-engineered from Mitsubishi's small pickup, which Mitsubishi itself later sold in the United States as the Mighty Max. The truck was called the Dodge D50 for 1979 and 1980 and carried the Ram 50 name afterward, until 1994, across two generations. Chrysler used it as its answer to the Ford Courier and the Chevrolet LUV, small Japanese-built trucks that had arrived in 1972, and Plymouth sold a sister version called the Arrow Truck from 1979 to 1982. Four-wheel drive was added for 1982 as the Power Ram 50, and a turbodiesel engine was offered in United States models between 1983 and 1985. From the 1983 facelift the Dodge version used quad rectangular headlights, where earlier Dodges and the Mitsubishi versions had single units.