An employee works on the 1,000,001 nine-speed automatic transmission as it rolls down the assembly line at the FCA US Tipton Transmission Plant. The Company celebrated the production milestone last week, 28 months after launch, with employee events at both the Tipton plant and the Indiana Transmission Plant I, where the 1,000,000th was built earlier in the day.Ram’s 948TE nine-speed automatic is tried and tested – to the tune of more than one million having been made since May 2013.
To celebrate the milestone for the transmission that moves its ProMaster, Ram inducted its nine-speed in the TorqueFlite family. The TorqueFlite automatic transmission has a long history, dating back to 1956. First introduced in Imperial models, TorqueFlite transmissions were known for having superior performance while also being extremely tough and reliable. The new nine-speed embodies those same characteristics, but in a modern day package, deserving of the TorqueFlite name.
“Our TorqueFlite nine-speed transmissions deliver superior performance in a broad range of driving environments both on road and off road,” says Ram Vice President of Transmission Powertrain Jeffrey Lux. “We’re extremely proud to hit the first milestone and look forward to engineering and building millions more for our customers.”
