2021 Ram 3500 H.O.

Grit dog wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

blofgren wrote:

4x4ord wrote:
How many km?

Still has under 50k because it's primarily a trailer tower. 75-80% of that mileage has been towing.

Plus you have a "Holy Grail" G56 manual transmission that they ae not putting in HD's anymore. I wish mine was a manual, but the wife put a kibosh on that. She has to drive my truck sometimes and tow the horse trailer. Or drive me home from the farm when I have had too many Shiner's. At least my JK is a manual.

Which is a shame btw. Ram could have kept that option easily with little capital cost IMO. It pained me to sell our 07 G56 truck. But hard to pass up getting 27 grand for a 14 year old truck with 180k (miles, lol) on it! FWIW, paid $30,800 for it in 2008 with10k miles on it. Not a bad ROI for a depreciating asset.
The downside is I’ll now likely never have another manual trans tow rig, which is soooo nice when towing. Although I always wished it was a G57!

That's awfully good resale value on that truck, bud. Those trucks seem to go for a pile of money around here too. Back in 2014 I looked at a 2007 Ram 3500 Laramie DRW 5.9L G56 with 100k on it. The guy (dealership) wanted $40k for it and would not drop below $39,500 even with no trade. I thought it was too much and moved on. A week later it was gone so obviously someone thought it was a good buy!

I definitely love the manual trans while towing; a real bonus on the Cummins 6.7L is that the exhaust brake works down to 800 RPM with the G56. No using the service brakes even when creeping around a steep campsite with the 16k fiver in tow! :C