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2025 Ram 1500 RHO Is a Six-Cylinder TRX with 540 HP
The 2025 Ram 1500 RHO will succeed the mighty TRX, trading that truck's 702-hp supercharged V-8 for a twin-turbo 3.0-liter straight-six with 540 horses.Despite a sizable power disadvantage, the RHO will inherit the TRX's wide body, beefier frame, long-travel suspension, and chunky off-road tires. Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis said the TRX nameplate is getting shelved, and it likely won't return unless a … [Read more...]
2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger Avoids the Range Anxiety of EV Trucks
The 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger is the brand's first plug-in-hybrid full-size pickup truck. It shares a platform with the electric Ram 1500 REV.A 70.8-kWh battery provides an estimated 145 miles of electric range and feeds a 663-hp all-wheel-drive powertrain, with a V-6 spinning a generator as a backup.With a full battery and fuel tank, Ram is targeting up to 690 miles of combined driving range; it … [Read more...]
Range Sucks When Towing with Electric Trucks, but Not with the 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger
Dual electric motors give the Ram 1500 Ramcharger full-size pickup truck 663 combined horsepower and a maximum tow rating of 14,000 pounds. Power comes from a 70.8-kWh battery that delivers 145 miles of unladen range, plus a Pentastar 3.6-liter V-6 hooked to a generator that boosts combined range to 690 miles. This makes the Ramcharger a plug-in hybrid, but because the engine only … [Read more...]
Tested: 2004 Dodge Ram SRT-10 Quad Cab
From the January 2005 issue of Car and Driver.What do Dodge Viper owners most frequently ask the company for? More refinement? A hardtop street model? An automatic transmission? Not even close.Dodge brass say the most frequent request is for a Viper-engined truck, something capable of towing the customers' Vipers. Although the regular-cab Ram SRT-10 truck wasn't up to the task of towing the … [Read more...]
2004 Dodge Ram SRT-10 Is a Viper with a Pickup Bed
From the February 2004 issue of Car and Driver. Memo to: Csaba CsereFrom: John PhillipsCsaba, I'm not sure I should be the guy writing about this truck. Remember my Viper review (November 2002)? I recall a lot of hissing, some dark threats, a blanket apology or two. Didn't you have to mail out pricey Xmas gifts to smooth that one over?Memo to: John PhillipsFrom: Csaba CsereEditors who are assigned … [Read more...]
Tested: 1994 Dodge Ram 1500
From the May 1994 issue of Car and Driver.You won't get this advice from "Donahue," guys, so listen up: size matters.Face it, Pee-wee, Rosey Grier didn't make the Pro Bowl because he learned how to cross-stitch. Wilford Brimley doesn't work the commercial circuit because he's a clotheshorse. And King Kong didn't get lucky with Fay Wray because he had a hairy back.Granted, Dodge's new Ram pickup … [Read more...]
Jeep Wrangler EV Due in 2028, New Mid-Size Trucks Coming in 2027
The strike-ending agreement between Stellantis and the UAW produced a document revealing the automaker's plans for its American factories, giving an insight into upcoming models.The Jeep Wrangler is set to go electric in 2028 but will offer a hybrid model that uses a gas engine as a generator to replenish the battery on the go.New mid-size truck models are expected to join the Dodge and Jeep … [Read more...]
We Drive Toyota’s EV Prototype with a Manual Transmission
When we started our campaign to Save the Manuals in 2010, we never imagined a future like this—a psuedo-manual gearbox for an EV. Toyota’s prototype features both an H-pattern gear shifter and a clutch pedal, but although the idea might sound like a spoof, the effort that has already been put into it proves that Toyota is serious amount making a production version.The idea of a manual-transmission … [Read more...]
The Real Cost of Owning an Electric Car
The Nissan Leaf was the first mass-market electric car sold in the United States. Yes, there were EVs available before the Leaf (General Motors' EV1 and Tesla's Roadster are two well-known examples), but it was Nissan that tried to thread the needle of zero-emission mobility with a cost of entry low enough to sell tens of thousands—as opposed to a few hundred or thousand—of EVs to interested … [Read more...]
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