MotorTrend Tests the 1500's

APT wrote:

To the point, any truck that takes 1/2 a mile a over half a minute to get to highway speed

You really do exaggerate and state options as if they were facts. This is why people keep calling you out. 81MPH trap speed in quarter mile according to the linked article.

Towing my friend......Which I inferred when I said in the same sentence, "with nothing let for payload".
I don't disagree that some may find the performance adequate, but all else being equal, better performance, or in this case drastically better performance for the same or less money, is, um better.

And as such, I would never buy a slower truck than I have now. It is terribly odd to many "a half ton can't tow" or a 'V6 doesn't belong in a truck", or "base V6 engines aren't any good for towing". Yet the ED is? I'll take my lesser torque 300+hp for everyday driving, and those times when I need 300hp, over the 240/420 of the ED 8 days a week. Or the 3.6 in the Ram, which is a shining star or value and performance.