Suzuki sidekick 1998 manual#

In the Ramcharger's case, 'fuel economy' sounds like an oxymoron: on the EPA city cycle, the V-8 sucks up a gallon of unleaded every 12 miles. No points for engine-note quality, however.

Suzuki sidekick 1998 manual#

Mated to a four-speed automatic transmission (a five-speed manual is available), the new V-8 moves the Ramcharger from 0 to 60 mph in 10.2 seconds-a reasonable accomplishment considering the vehicle's mass. Indeed, the new 5.2 produces 40 more horses than the Ramcharger's optional 5.9-liter V-8- though the latter engine is torquier, grunting out 292 pound-feet at just 2400 rpm. Enhanced with sequential port fuel injection and treated to a thorough going-over (including redesigned cylinder heads and new intake and exhaust manifolds), the 5.2-liter V-8 now produces 230 horsepower at 4800 rpm and 280 pound-feet of torque at 3000-a substantial improvement over the old engine's 170 horsepower and 260 pound-feet. The new V-8 moves the Ramcharger from 0 to 60 mph in 10.2 seconds-a reasonable accomplishment considering the vehicle's mass. The Canyon Sport option discards the jumbo ram's-head hood ornament and a lot of chrome in favor of a clean-looking two-tone paint job with a body-colored front grille. The news this year is a contemporary Canyon Sport appearance package and the addition of Dodge's redesigned 5.2-liter V-8. Hoary it may be, but the '92 Ramcharger is not without refinements. It wears its massive, defiantly unaerodynarnic sheetmetal like armor-'Let me loose in the parking lot,' it seems to say, 'and I'll squash the antifreeze out of that puny Suzuki Sidekick in the corner.' It's available with or without four-wheel drive, it offers a choice of V-8 engines, and, when properly configured, it can tow up to 7500 pounds.

This is a big, brutish truck: 4823 pounds, six feet tall, nearly seven feet wide. Sleekness, sophistication, and charm are, none of them, merits of the Ramcharger. The Dodge Ramcharger full-size sport utility vehicle is now into its nineteenth model year. Let's agree from the outset that any car or truck is getting pretty grizzled after a production run of ten years or so. From the July 1992 issue of Car and Driver.