RAM EcoDiesel a Flop for Towing

ShinerBock wrote:
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.

Well then, I guess all the Semi-Trucks that were towing up that mountain that the Ecodiesel passed in that video were failures as well by that same logic. Again, the truck meets the SAE standards that were agreed to by all manufacturers. The truck has been marketed as a fuel miser for occasional towing and it delivers on that front. It was never marketed as being a bad ass tow monster, however it seems like some people were hyping it as such because of the fact that it was a diesel. Spend some time on RAM's interactive tow guide and you will find that specific truck was probably right next to being maxed out. Just for argument's sake, I picked a crew-cab RAM Big Horn with the 6'4" bed in 4x2 configuration. GCVWR is 13,750 lbs. Curb weight according to RAM is 5,400 lbs. Those 2 guys are probably 250 lbs a piece, so about 500 lbs of payload gone there. So now you're at 5,900 lbs in the truck. That leaves only 7,450 lbs left for the hitch and towing. I would say they are as close to the limit as you can be. However, this specific truck is rated to tow up to 7,950 lbs, if the driver was the lone passenger and weighed 150 lbs (again, which is the standard that all OEMs use to rate tow vehicles).