2015 Ram 1500 R/T Hemi - Car and Driver
Pickups focused on performance had existed before—see Express, Li’l Red—but such exercises in silliness peaked when Dodge stuffed the Viper’s 500-hp V-10 into the Ram’s engine bay and created the monstrous SRT10 —with a manual transmission no less. It set the (still-standing) top-speed record for production trucks at nearly 155 mph. The 2015 Ram 1500 R/T, for example, comes awfully close to hitting the performance marks of its wilder predecessors yet also delivers a level of refinement those bruisers lacked. Ready To Run Based on the mid-level Sport trim, the 2015 R/T looks like a proper sport truck and is available only in rear-wheel-drive, standard-cab form with a six-foot, four-inch box. The lone engine choice is the 395-hp, 5. 7-liter Hemi V-8. it backs up to an 8HP70 eight-speed automatic that spins a 3. 92:1 rear-axle ratio. But the Hemi’s 410 lb-ft of torque and the quick-thinking, many-geared ’box win the day when you mash the go pedal. The truck returned an impressive 5. 4-second dash to 60 mph, with the quarter-mile passing in 14. 1 at 99 mph. Source: www.caranddriver.com
