2011 Ram 3500 Laramie Longhorn Crew Cab 4x4 Diesel - Car and Driver
For all their outward conspicuity, though, HD haulers are a lot like any other truck inside. But Ram’s Laramie Longhorn package, new for 2011 and available on the full range of 1500, 2500, and 3500 trucks, succeeds handily in changing that. There are few exterior cues to its specialness (we’re not counting the belt-buckle-sized fender badges, as most trucks today wear some similar exterior decoration), but inside the Longhorn, it looks and smells like Kentucky’s finest tack room... The seats of our truck are swaddled in pebbled brown leather embellished with filigrees on the thigh and side bolsters. The Longhorn’s masterstroke is on the front seatbacks, where thick flaps of leather hang down to cover the map pockets. Longhorn trucks also have about every option offered on lesser Rams, including navigation, a rearview camera, a flip-down screen for rear-seat entertainment, and heated seats at all four corners with cooling for the front occupants. Ford previously stood alone in the super-luxury pickup arena with its sumptuous King Ranch trim, but Ram looks to have surpassed it. We now eagerly await GM’s response. GMC’s Denali trucks don’t count, since a proper challenger has to look and smell. Source: www.caranddriver.com
