2021 Ram 3500 H.O.

ShinerBock wrote:

spoon059 wrote:
I just saw an article online about this. Ridiculous... going 100 lbs over the F450 to claim some imaginary award? They all tow exceptionally well. Rather than petty little max towing awards, how about making them (not just Ram, but Ford and GM) more reliable, more fuel efficient, more competitively priced etc.

I agree. A lot of R&D costs goes into making this thing tow weights that maybe a fraction of their customers would even tow. It is pointless and that money could have either been spent elsewhere or made the cost of each vehicle lower as you stated. The cost of this kind of R&D is spread amongst all models so you are paying for it even if you don't get the configuration with this pointless tow rating.

However, as one Ford fanboy already pointed out, it is all about "competing" against someone else's favorite brand. To these people, only things like 0-60 times, short burst horsepower figures, and highest tow ratings possible (even though they don't tow that much) matter because in their eyes this is how a truck competes. It is these kind of people the keep this pointless game going. In my eyes things like reliability, efficiency, and sustained power are way more of a competing factor than Ike times. This is where the R&D money should go. I can make it more power afterwards if needed and would prefer to do it myself.

Yeah OK... Everyone who participates on this particular forum is a fan to some extent including the ones who claim there not which we know they are the real straight shooters. :R

Because we know...