You may also credit the car's Eco driving mode, accessible through a rotary dial in the between-the-seat console.

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If you should ever have to rock the truck back and forth, to work yourself out of a rut, for instance, the rotary dial makes that easier.

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The Ram's gearshift selector is a rotary dial mounted vertically to the right of the steering wheel, and I, for one, found it pretty friendly to operate.

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