Ram 1500 EcoDeisel mpg figures released
27 mpg COMBINED rating. LINK "And after a stint on the long and lazy Pacific Coast Highway, we hit a mixture of 22.3 mpg. This was an average figure for us, though one member in our Ram 1500 mot...
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The reaction to the 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel pickup truck has been so enthusiastic that Chrysler is starting to wonder if it will be able to fill demand. Link to Edmunds.com
Ram made sure to emphasize that the engine isn't betraying legions of Cummins fans out there, who if faced upon any uncertainty might storm into Auburn Hills, 3500 Duallies burping and blazing with the cacophony of Patton's 2nd Armored. Where the 6.7-liter Cummins inline-six diesel snorts and rumbles, a four-wheeled Harley-Davidson (that can trailer behind it up to 38 Road Kings), the 1500's Italian diesel is quiet, nonintrusive.
The fine people at Ram put us upon the most devilishly twisty road in all of Malibu, a road so slow and windy that sports car drivers are reluctant to unwind on it. (One can replicate this experience by seesawing aberrantly through a parking garage at 3 in the morning.) Hard on the brakes, moderate acceleration every few seconds. Through this Trial By Twisties, the optional air suspension on our Ram made an admirable effort at preventing nausea from all occupants. (We later drove up the same path on conventional coil-sprung 1500s, which wafted slightly more but still felt collected and controllable. "Carlike" might seem like a pejorative word, but in both cases it's in fact a boon.) And after a stint on the long and lazy Pacific Coast Highway, we hit a mixture of 22.3 mpg. This was an average figure for us, though one member in our Ram 1500 motorcade hit an applause-worthy 27 mpg. The people at Ram may have awarded him a cookie.
Link Autoweek
I think I may not get the Challenger after all. Maybe a 4X4 CC Longhorn for Christmas!
Don
Ram made sure to emphasize that the engine isn't betraying legions of Cummins fans out there, who if faced upon any uncertainty might storm into Auburn Hills, 3500 Duallies burping and blazing with the cacophony of Patton's 2nd Armored. Where the 6.7-liter Cummins inline-six diesel snorts and rumbles, a four-wheeled Harley-Davidson (that can trailer behind it up to 38 Road Kings), the 1500's Italian diesel is quiet, nonintrusive.
The fine people at Ram put us upon the most devilishly twisty road in all of Malibu, a road so slow and windy that sports car drivers are reluctant to unwind on it. (One can replicate this experience by seesawing aberrantly through a parking garage at 3 in the morning.) Hard on the brakes, moderate acceleration every few seconds. Through this Trial By Twisties, the optional air suspension on our Ram made an admirable effort at preventing nausea from all occupants. (We later drove up the same path on conventional coil-sprung 1500s, which wafted slightly more but still felt collected and controllable. "Carlike" might seem like a pejorative word, but in both cases it's in fact a boon.) And after a stint on the long and lazy Pacific Coast Highway, we hit a mixture of 22.3 mpg. This was an average figure for us, though one member in our Ram 1500 motorcade hit an applause-worthy 27 mpg. The people at Ram may have awarded him a cookie.
Link Autoweek
I think I may not get the Challenger after all. Maybe a 4X4 CC Longhorn for Christmas!
Don
