2011 Ram 3500 Crew Cab Dually: If you need what it can do, it can do what you need - STLtoday.com

No two vehicles could be more disparate than a Toyota Prius and a Ram heavy duty 3500 diesel dually crew cab pickup, and yet — almost invariably — both elicit the same question: What kind of mileage does it get. Of course, diesel enthusiasts for years have been swapping stories about the mileage returned by their pickups, which generally get about 30 percent better fuel economy than comparable gasoline-engine trucks. But, I'm here to tell ya, the 2011 Ram diesel dually 3500 crew cab 4x4 we drove has come a long way from the days when most pickup buyers considered a Dodge heavy duty pickup simply a wrapper for what they really wanted — the Cummins diesel. Today's Ram (for the record, it's now just Ram, no longer Dodge Ram) can be had with trim that's as plush as a sultan's palace, as was the case with our Ram 3500 Laramie Crew Cab dually 4x4. In our $61,000 truck, we had everything from richly... A satellite receiver made the Disney Channel possible — appropriate, since our dually pickup, with its marvelously spacious crew cab and 8-foot cargo box, was big enough to be seen from space — but this bruiser's capability in large part is made... Source: www.stltoday.com