Ram 3500 max tow vs F450
This will be an interesting report to read. King of Beasts on the Road "Our two tow testers for this run are a 2013 Ford F-450 Super Duty Platinum edition and 2013 Ram 3500 HD Laramie Longhorn e...
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Hannibal wrote:downtheroad wrote:
Why not conduct these kinds of tests with a 'real' RV?
A flat bed trailer (goose neck hitch) and a load of bricks???
Put a full sized fully loaded - say a Mobile Suits - on these trucks and take them into the mountains with long up and down grades, and into very hot desert with a strong cross wind and have at it.
I agree. 35mph up the grade with no wind resistance? Toss in the wind resistance of a high profile 5th wheel loaded to advertised max tow rating and let's see if these heavy haulers live up to their hype.
I get 11 mpg out of the truck pulling my rv but many loads that are not necessarily a whole lot heavier have worked the truck much harder....in the range of 5 - 6 mpg. Even though the frontal area of a high profile RV's is huge they seem to allow the air to flow over them much better than some loads on a flat deck. At 35 mph wind resistance is not a big factor compared to the power required to pull a heavy trailer up a steep grade. I hauled this load about 2000 miles and got around 6 mpg even though it only weighed in the neighborhood of 19,000 lbs. It seemed to catch the air much worse than I had expected.
