Ram News
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The dominant news at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit was about pickup trucks. Ironically, the Detroit automaker with the fewest electrified models on sale was the only one to bring hybridization to a new truck, in the form of its brand-new 2019 Ram 1500. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has lagged GM and Ford on the electrification front, only recently putting hybrid technology in its Pacifica minivan and soon its Wrangler SUV. DON'T MISS: Justice Department sues Fiat Chrysler over diesel emissions Coincidentally, it's the hybrid system used by the Wrangler—a 48-volt...
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Justice Department sues Fiat Chrysler over diesel emissions (update)The U.S. Justice Department sued Fiat Chrysler Automobiles yesterday over allegations that diesel engines in its light-duty trucks included equipment to defeat Environmental Protection Agency emissions tests. First reported as impending last week, the suit alleges that FCA fitted up to eight...
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FCA sued over emissions of 2007-2012 Dodge Ram diesel pickups with Cummins engines
FCA and Cummins are being sued over alleged excess emissions in heavy-duty diesel pickup trucks.
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2016 Ram 1500 HFE EcoDiesel fuel-economy review: 24-mpg full-size pickup truck
It may not look like it, but the Ram full-size pickup you see here may be one of the more interesting new trucks on the road today. You might view it as this decade's version of the Camaros, Mustangs, and Mopars that emerged in earlier days from back-corner "skunkworks" engineering groups at each...
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Pickup Truck Fuel Economy For 2016: Diesels Take Top Three Spots
Which 2016 pickup truck is the most fuel efficient?
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Ram Diesel Pickup Trucks: Dealer Stocks Low, But Sales Low Too?
Ram 1500 EcoDiesel production is up, but sales and dealer stocks are down.
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With the highest rated fuel economy of any full-size pickup truck, the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel has been a smash hit for Fiat Chrysler's truck brand. But now the company has acknowledged that some of the trucks--those with rear-wheel drive rather than four-wheel drive--have an issue with diesel exhaust leaking into the cabin. DON'T MISS: 2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel HFE's 24-MPG Fuel Efficiency: How They Did It According to a followup story on the issue by Detroit ABC news station WXYZ, which first reported on the issue in December, Chrysler acknowledged that month that the issue affected more than the...
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2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel HFE's 24-MPG Fuel Efficiency: How They Did It
How the 2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel HFE squeezes extra efficiency out of Ram's diesel half-ton truck.
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2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel Adds HFE Model For Higher Fuel Efficiency Rating
Ram now offers an HFE fuel-efficiency model with the EcoDiesel V-6 engine.
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2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel Production To Double: 1 In 5 Trucks To Get Diesel
Ram is increasing EcoDiesel truck production to meet demand.
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Ram 1500 Diesel Pickup Fuel Economy: Drivers Beat Mileage Ratings In Real-World Use
This year's full-size pickup truck sales are surging, driven at least in part by increased U.S. oil production, according to Ford chief economist Emily Kolinski Morris. Ironic, eh? But new pickups sold today are far more fuel-efficient than those offered even a couple of years ago--and the highest...
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2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel: Quick First Drive Report
The 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel is the only half-ton truck on sale this year with a diesel engine.
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Well, OK, perhaps the 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel doesn't have an engine actually designed by Maserati. But, hey, what other pickup truck can claim to use even the same engine as sexy, sinuous, six-figure Italian luxury sport sedans? As cleverly pointed out by Ward's Auto, the new diesel Ram 1500 full-size pickup truck uses the same 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6 engine that's fitted to both the Maserati Quattroporte and the new 2014 Maserati Ghibli sedans--in Europe. North American buyers, unaccustomed to diesels in passenger cars--except for those from longtime diesel stalwarts Volkswagen and...
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2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel Pickup Logs 8,000 Orders In Three Days
The 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel is already getting plenty of attention from truck buyers.
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2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel Pickup Fuel Economy: 23 MPG Combined
The 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel's EPA fuel-economy ratings are in.
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Diesel Pickup Trucks From Chevy, Ford, Nissan, Ram: Ultimate Guide
Diesel has been an option for heavy-duty pickup users for quite some time now, and the sights and sounds of a big Power Stroke-equipped Ford or Cummins-engined RAM will be quite familiar to most. It's taken longer for the fuel to find acceptance in the light-duty, full-size pickup market, but...
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2015 Ram ProMaster City Small Van To Compete With Ford Transit Connect
The 2015 Ram ProMaster City is the latest compact van to be sold in the U.S.
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2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel Tested At 28 MPG On Highway
The nation's only diesel half-ton truck may also be its most fuel-efficient.
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Chrysler-Fiat took the wraps off its long-anticipated 2014 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, the first light-duty pickup truck to be offered with a diesel engine in many years. The new diesel pickup uses the same 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6 already fitted to the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel utility vehicle. In the pickup truck, it's rated at 240 horsepower and a substantial 420 pound-feet of torque. The turbodiesel V-6 powers the truck through a new eight-speed automatic transmission, also fitted to most other Ram 1500 models (including the base 305-hp 3.6-liter V-6 and optional 395-hp 5.7-liter Hemi...
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2013 Ram 1500 Pickup Truck: Same Looks, Much Better Mileage (Video)
The New York Auto Show, now open to the public, occupies two floors of the Javits Convention Center, and organizers this year were strict about relegating trucks to the basement. Chrysler was allowed only a single truck or crossover in its entire main-floor display. So it chose the 2013 Ram 1500...
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Ram To Offer Natural-Gas HD Pickup Trucks, Joining Chevy, GMC
We missed it last week while we were covering all the new cars at the Geneva Motor Show, but Chrysler has officially stepped forward into the world of natural-gas vehicles. Its Ram truck brand announced that it would offer a bi-fuel version of its 2500 Heavy Duty pickup, to be known as the Ram 2500...
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Chrysler To Offer Diesel Engine Options, But Only In Trucks
Chrysler will soon sell a diesel-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee, which may be followed by a diesel-powered Dodge Durango. The next Ram Dakota will get a diesel, too, but don't expect to see one in a Chrysler automobile.
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For Better Gas Mileage, Ram Shrinks The Van To European Size
To compete with Ford's Transit Connect, Fiat will import the Doblo commercial van under the Ram brand for 2013.
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Chrysler To Join Honda In Selling Natural-Gas Cars...In 2017
Ask anyone to name an alternate fuel, and natural gas is rarely the first one that comes to mind. Ethanol, perhaps, and increasingly electricity. But natural gas? Not so much. Yet in other parts of the world, as many as 2 percent of the vehicles on the road are fueled by natural gas, in countries...
John Voelcker
