Ram Goes to Stunning 900 lb-ft of torque
The 2016 Ram 3500 breaks the towing record previously held by the old Ram 3500 (at 30,000 pounds) by moving up to 31,210 pounds,more than two tons beyond its closest rival. To get there, Ram went from...
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Who gets to the top first is kind of the point isn't of all that power? I mean on one hand you are bragging that your truck OEM has a pickup that makes 900 foot pounds but on the other hand you don't care when you makes it to the top of hill, that seems contradictory to me. Why then feed all that power? Why offer a pickup that specs so great, but gets owned by trucks with considerably less impressive spec sheets. Kinda like the 6.4 gas, stomps the competition in every measurable stat except pulling a load up a hill. Suddenly then it becomes less important how fast you can get up hill, cause you know, it isn't race.
.........and maybe for most of us that use the diesel to tow getting to the top first is not that important. As you said it is not a race. But having the power, even if some is always in reserve, is beneficial and should it be needed, it is there. Nice to know that should the bridge call down to the engine room for more power it will happen. Race of not, the power is nice even if 'just in case' it is needed. And to race the big three diesels against each other might be fun to read about but reality says all three will get to the top of the hill within a matter of seconds of each other so who towing an RV really cares? Also, who cares if the numbers are paper or real world, all three diesel perform so much better than anything in a pickup twenty years ago. It will be interesting to see what we can tow with in another twenty years.
