First drive Ram 1500 diesel

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:


Your link is for the GAS RAM not the diesel the diesel and before you start pumping up chest thinking your Ego-Boost is all that read this form your link!!!

Uh, no the link I provided is from the pickuptrucks.com first drive of the Ecodiesel Ram 1500. Since they also tested the Hemi and are the same drivers, it is good to compare their economy from the gas to the Diesel. That was the purpose. Instead of swooning over this engine, you should see how it compares to the gas engine and the competition. That is why I provided the gas link. Once you see that you see this id not the holy grail you want it to be.

Here you go again in case you lost it:
Pickuptrucks.com Ram EcoDiesel First Drive

And here's the quote from that article:

Once out of the mountain roads, we kept a steady 50 mph average along the scenic Pacific Coast Highway, where we saw our average fuel economy creep up to 26 mpg (remember, that includes our climb up the canyons and then back down), but out on the highway, cruising at freeway speeds (in California, that’s about 70 mph), we saw the instantaneous readouts tell us we were getting between 24 and 26 mpg. If we had to guess where the EPA ratings will land, we wouldn’t be surprised to see 20 city and 29 or 30 highway.

We did get a chance to take some shorter loops later in the day with a Laramie 4x4 with the EcoDiesel; when navigating the wide open city streets on our 12-mile test loop, we averaged 42 mph and 22.7 mpg.

We also got a chance to do a bit of towing. Ram provided us with a small boat and trailer (weighing about 3,000 pounds) for us to drive the urban 12-mile route. We managed to get 15.4 mpg under load in tow mode. In fact, it was while towing that we saw a little of the EcoDiesel’s shine come off the finish. We found that even under the relatively light load of a small boat, the response of the transmission seemed sluggish.

So it got poor fuel economy towing a light, areodynamic boat. Hate to see how it does towing an RV or a box trailer like a landscaper or carpenter might use. Probably will not even break even on the Diesel.

And you don't have to answer that one because you've already said that Ram doesn't want you to tow an RV with their 1500 - that's what the HD is for.

Talk about a hater, man dude you must have rally gotten screwed of by a Chrysler dealer at some point in time. Maybe some therapy with a shrink would help you get over it.

Talk about a fanboy - you should look in the mirror I know Chrysler puts food on your table but they swung and missed yet again with this one. I now know why they have been coy with the fuel economy numbers all this time....