Big horsepower Ram gasser on way?
It won't be a tow vehicle but the 5th gen Ram family is reported to include a Rebel TRX with 707 HP instead of the 535 HP detuned version in the concept. Source is the Automotive News issue of April 1...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:4x4ord wrote:
One of the issues with big power in a tow vehicle is designing a cooling system to keep up. Using 700 hp for 10 seconds to accelerate a car down the track or road is totally different than having 700 hp being generated for 10 minutes while pulling a huge trailer up a steep incline at 60 mph. The cooling system has to do about as much work as the rear wheels. In order to actually use 700 hp towing would require a larger cooling system than a Peterbilt.
Someone gets it! Everybody loves to talk about big HP but when it comes to duty cycle or cooling everybody shuts up. :B
So you are saying that the Jeep (or this truck) tow rating of 7000 + pounds is meaningless? Sorry, but I would trust the rating that the manufacture gives it more than someone who thinks they are a mathematician on the internet.
And I will agree that this will likely never be a primary tow vehicle. But I could see someone (like me) combine a sports car and their winter driver to one Hellcat GC or RAM that could tow my boat.
