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Perrysburg_Dodg's avatar
Aug 25, 2014

Ram takes the lead.

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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 pounds of SAE J2807-spec. towing capacity, beating the closest competitor by nearly 1.5 tons.


2015 Ram 2500 holds best-in-class 17,970 pounds of towing capacity, while adhering to SAE J2807 test criteria
New best-in-class payload of 7,390 pounds (Ram 3500)
Ram maintains credibility and customer confidence as the only automaker to align with SAE J2807 towing standard in its heavy duty pickup truck line
Best-in-class Gross Combined Weight Rating (GCWR) of 37,900 pounds
The first 2015 Ram Heavy Duty trucks begin rolling off the factory line this week
Unsurpassed powertrain warranty – five years/100,000 miles

Good thing they used a 2014 Ram for the 2014 Ultimate Heavy-Duty Challenge against GM and Fords 2015 modles.

59 Replies

  • It would just be more whining, best to leave it be and who tows that hard. answer is zero.

    chevman
  • A few ft lbs of torque means nothing. If that's so great, why are they still a very distant third in sales? Fiat/Ram trucks just don't seem able to get anywhere near Chevy's sales figures, or even half of what Ford sells. That's not to say Ram doesn't make a good truck, their 2500/3500 trucks are pretty decent. Can't say so much for their lightweight 1500 trucks though, which, like Ford and Chevy, are the bread-and-butter trucks.
  • Bamaman1 wrote:
    You're not going to catch me in a light duty truck with a 30K trailer behind me with friction style brakes. You're talking an area that requires a medium size truck with air brakes--
    .


    UH. Maybe you want to re phrase that. The air activates the FRICTION brakes to stop a vehicle.
  • rhagfo's avatar
    rhagfo
    Explorer III
    Bamaman1 wrote:
    You're not going to catch me in a light duty truck with a 30K trailer behind me with friction style brakes. You're talking an area that requires a medium size truck with air brakes--and more weight under you.

    It's not just enough having torque. You've also have to have a truck that'll turn with a heavy load and one that has the suspension to safely make a turn with such weight.


    Well last I checked air brakes still use friction to stop!

    Not going argue the extra weight for control.
  • You're not going to catch me in a light duty truck with a 30K trailer behind me with friction style brakes. You're talking an area that requires a medium size truck with air brakes--and more weight under you.

    It's not just enough having torque. You've also have to have a truck that'll turn with a heavy load and one that has the suspension to safely make a turn with such weight.
  • 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!
  • Amazing how much hype a few ft lbs torque, or a few HP, or a few seconds can get.
    No doubt the others will find ways to squeeze out a few more to get the bragging rights for the next short term.
    But the various media love it for story material and there are obviously those that it appeals to.
  • Too bad they couldn't come up with a 2015 model for the 1-ton comparison runs :h
  • Yeah because 15ft/lbs would have changed everything...:R

    If there was one thing people should take away from the HD Challenge is that numbers don't always equate to real world. At the end of the day they're just numbers which people seem to get way to caught up in.