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rjstractor
Sep 12, 2013Nomad
Nice to see things progressing with technology, both Ram and Ford showing that you can have great power and decent fuel economy in a 1500 series pickup.  I applaud Ram for being bold and using coil springs, but this truck is dangerously close to losing it's "1/2 ton" status.  A 1200 pound payload is pretty pathetic (considering that a VW Jetta has over 1100) and makes the truck pretty useless for hauling a family and pulling a decent size trailer unless you don't mind overloading.  If they would stiffen those coils just a touch and bump the payload up to 1600 it would be right up at the top of my list.
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