2015 Ram 2500 Diesel: First Drive - Yahoo Autos (blog)
The Ram 2500 Heavy Duty Tradesman is all about utility. There’s no leather in the interior, there’s no chrome on the bumpers, and the plastic door handles open doors that feel like they were carved out of T-34 tank armor. There isn’t even any carpeting, and the one I drove made me shift the gears for it. After starting the massive 6. 7-liter Cummins turbo diesel, it settled into the rattling idle of a Russian trawler out to catch an American submarine. Of course if communism worked as well as this truck, there’d still be a wall down the center of Berlin and the internal contradictions of capitalism would be all anyone talked about while in line at Starbucks. Call it a tool, an implement, a work truck or a $48,945 beast of burden because it’s all those things. But it’s not duded up for daily use by timid suburbanites or comfortable commuting by chiropractors who tow a boat twice a year. The current generation Ram pickup was introduced as the half-ton Dodge Ram 1500 back in the 2009 model year with the ¾-ton Ram 2500 and one-ton Ram 3500 following in 2010. The whole line was rebranded for some inscrutable reason in 2011 as Ram... While that is nearly interesting history, what it means is that this full-sized Ram pickup has been around a while. And yet the Ram 2500 is still an impressively handsome draught horse at first sight. Source: www.yahoo.com
