Ram takes the lead.
LINK New Cummins 6.7-liter calibration adds 15 lb.-ft. of torque, edging out even Class 4 pickup competitors to a best-in-class 865 lb.-ft. 2015 Ram 3500 crushes the competition with up to 30,000 ...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:up2nogood wrote:travelnutz wrote:
To help Perrysburg Dodgeboy out just a little,
How ficticious is Ram's 865 torque claim? As proven: It can't even come close with their 850 claimed torque 6.7L to keeping up with the lowly GM 765 torque SAE actually certified 6.6L Duramax. Shows how cheap it is cheap words are to print that have nothing to back them up. Wild claims and fails when forced to perform against their actual competition. Even Ford's 6.7 laughs at the 6.7L Ram Cummins. As shown over and over, the Cummins has more than 100 lbs feet of real torque is missing when in competition in it's own class while sucking down lots more fuel as proven . An "F" again for failure and the constant misleading!
I too was totally convinced that GM was the way to go with all the hype on the challenges. What stood out the most when I drove a new 2014 Duramax was ,I will get used to it, everything from the crappy steering wheel to the uncomfortable seats, I just kept telling myself I will get used to it. Well I got lucky, they didn't have a truck with the options I wanted, and were looking for one. Went ,and drove a Ram while I was waiting for them to find a truck, and well the rest is history, and it is a towing beast, and if comes in second or third with 200 more lbs of torque I could care less. We forget in the real world those competitions are pretty meaningless , I nearly got caught up in them ,and purchased a GM, lucky me they didn't have the truck I wanted. I am sure the GM is a great truck, but not for me.
Oh, by the way, have no idea what the real world MPG are with ford, and chef, but the worst I have seen is 19, the best has been 21.5 highway . Towing so far 10-11 . Should improve with more miles on it.
Wow that is great mileage!
Very happy with the highway mileage did not expect it to be that good ,but thats what it is hand calculated. I don't drive it much around town, but it looks like about 15-16, not sure just haven't ran an entire tank around town. It seems to be getting a little better on the towing ,just over 11 coming back from a trip to Montana, prior to that it was just barely over 10 ( towing over 13K ) Seems that trip in Montana running around empty on the highways it is getting broke in a bit more. Going to southern Utah in about week will see how it does.
