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2006 Dodge Ram Mega Cab Pickup First Drive
Bigger, badder, and bolder than ever  by Ron Moorhead
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TO THE POINT What’s New? Dodge swaps bed length for a spacious cab to create the Mega Cab.
Selling Points: Passenger room, covered cargo space, high payload, towing limits
Deal Breakers: Short cargo bed, length a liability
Our Advice: Buy this because you need it, not because you want it.

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Americans like everything to be big. To satisfy our desire for largess, we shop at Mega-stores, eat Mega candies, and play the Mega Lotto. And now – for when we’ve had too many M&Ms and have won mega bucks – we have the Mega Cab on our roads, courtesy of Dodge. Nowhere in the world are full-sized pickup trucks held in such high regard as they are here in the U.S..

Appropriately, the 2006 Dodge Ram Mega Cab offers the largest cabin available in a production pickup truck thanks to an additional 22 inches of cab length. This stretch creates 72.2 cubic feet of useable interior space behind the Mega Cab’s front seats – more room than some sedans offer – and 7.7 cubic feet of this space is open behind the rear seat for storage. IN addition, the 2006 Dodge Mega Cab offers admirable payload and towing limits. With a full lineup of Mega Cabs on the market, including a version with dual rear wheels, this rig is ready to rumble.

Whether you’re ready for it is another story. The Dodge Ram Mega Cab is so big, in fact, that many buyers may not be ready – ready to deal with its thirst for fuel, its ungainly length, and its short truck bed. In the end, the biggest truck may well meet among the smallest needs: those who really do need this much room inside the cab of a truck.


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