Quick Drive: 2010 Dodge Ram 2500 Laramie 4x4 - Winding Road Magazine (blog)
Dodge’s Ram 2500 Laramie 4x4 is not one of those kinder, gentler pickup trucks you’ve read about that claim to possess certain car-like virtues. No sir, this is a big, burly, muscular, manly truck that looks down (quite literally) upon most of the vehicles with which it shares the road. The big Ram is very stiffly sprung, features firm shock damping, and highly boosted steering that provides directional guidance for the truck, but that otherwise makes no real attempt to communicate the cornering forces or traction conditions down... Instead, this big beast is all about towing/hauling capacity, so that (as my wife so aptly put it) it feels stout enough that, “You could probably tow your house along behind you if you wanted to. ” Whoever coined the expression “hell for strong”... While this big boy is not geared to provide cornering feel or finesse, nor is it meant to take on spirited back road drives, it appeals in much the way that driving a military vehicle might. In a Porsche Boxster you might enjoy the challenge of trying to cut the perfect arc across the apex of a corner, while in the big Dodge the challenge is to find a way to keep the huge, stiffly suspended vehicle smoothly centered it its lane as it... Speaking of which, let me mention that the giant Ram gathered more unsolicited positive commentary than any other Winding Road test vehicle I’ve driven in recent memory. Source: www.windingroad.com
