RAM EcoDiesel a Flop for Towing

ShinerBock wrote:

mtofell1 wrote:
I just don't think it's fair to call something a "flop" that hasn't failed to do what it didn't promise to do.

It may not have failed in your opinion but it did in mine. I call a truck that is barely able to hold within 10 mph of the speed limit when towing only 80% of your rated weight a failure especially when another truck and engines that is towing 95% of its rated weight is able to do so with power to spare. Like I said, that is unacceptable to me in this day and age. Towing at 40 mph WOT may have been acceptable to people 20 years ago, but not today where the bar has been raised. Either that tow rating needs to be lowered to a rating that the Ecodiesel can better handle or Ram has some explaining to do.

This is not the only instance of this either. In both the Fourwheeler.com and the Pickuptrucks.com tow tests with the Ecodiesel found them backing off speed well below the speed limit at wide open throttle at a less elevation and less grade hill. Also, like another poster said as well, imagine that thing with an RV on it which is what this site is all about. That thing would be going 30 mph up that hill. I don't know about you, but I don't expect my truck to go 30 mph when towing what it is rated to tow.

Sounds like the SAE towing standard isn't going to satisfy all future buyers like it was suppose to. Thirty mph is the minimum required speed while towing the Davis dam as part of the various requirements to meet this new towing standard.