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News - RamRam Trucks Australia celebrates 35K milestoneUS brand racks up 35,000 sales in Aus ahead of move to big new remanufacturing plant12 Oct 2025 By MATT BROGAN AMERICAN ute remanufacturer Ram Trucks Australia is celebrating the sale of its 35,000th vehicle as it prepares to move to a new manufacturing plant in the outer Melbourne suburb of Dandenong.
The shift from Clayton to Dandenong – slated for November 2025 – is said to secure the jobs of at least 250 staff across the brand’s production and engineering teams, with no interruption to customer deliveries.
“After eight years at our current remanufacturing facility in Clayton, Ram Trucks Australia is moving to a new state-of-the-art facility,” said Ram Trucks Australia general manager Jeff Barber.
“As the biggest seller of US pick-ups in Australia – with more than 35,000 vehicles remanufactured over the past 10 years – we believe this move will improve efficiencies and help secure the jobs of 200 factory workers and approximately 50 engineering staff who remanufacture Ram Trucks Australia vehicles to factory quality and safety standards.
“As you can appreciate, as the first US pick-up brand to remanufacture vehicles here in the modern era, we are proud of the part we have played in keeping local vehicle manufacturing and engineering skills alive in Australia in the wake of the closure of the Holden, Ford and Toyota factories in 2016 and 2017.
“By our estimates, the US pick-up sector as a whole now employs approximately 3000 workers if you include all production and engineering staff, plus those in the supplier base.”
Mr Barber said Ram Trucks have been the top-selling US pick-up locally since operations began in 2015, despite the arrival of more competition.
Year to date, Ram Trucks Australia has sold 2112 examples of the 1500 – 476 units more than the Chevrolet Silverado, 1563 units more than the Ford F-150, and 1494 units more than the Toyota Tundra.
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