Ram broadcasts costs for its heavy-responsibility pickup trucks
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles stated its new 2019 Ram 2500 Heavy Duty pickup truck could have a beginning fee of $35,090, including the $1,695 vacation spot price.
The Ram 3500 will start at $36,540, including the vacation spot rate.
The 2019 Ram 3500, 4500, and 5500 Chassis Cab commercial vans – Ram’s heaviest haulers – will start at $36,445, along with the destination rate, the automaker stated Tuesday.
Ram unveiled its redesigned line of heavy-duty pickups at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January however held off on announcing expenses until the trucks were toward taking place sale. The new automobiles ought to be reaching dealer plenty within the 2d quarter of this yr.
The new Ram 2500 three-area and 3500 1-ton fashions shown on the North American International Auto Show bear a robust resemblance to the mild-duty Ram 1500, also lately redesigned.
TOPS IN TORQUE
The diesel-powered Ram 3500 is the first HD pickup to provide up to at least one,000 pound-ft of torque, an advantage of a non-compulsory excessive-output Cummins faster-diesel 6.7-liter engine rated at four hundred horsepower and available handiest within the 3500. That engine, mated to an Aisin six-speed transmission, adds another $eleven,795 to the cost.
Ram unveiled the 2019 Ram chassis cab at the Chicago Auto Show earlier this month. The new medium-duty truck can have a higher power, payload, and tow scores than the version it replaces.
“In launching the new 2019 Ram Heavy Duty pickups and Chassis Cab vans, we knew it becomes critical to offer class-main functionality, features, and generation. But it’s also important to provide our remarkable products at a competitive charge,” said Reid Bigland, Head of Ram Truck Brand.
The vans will come in a huge range of configurations and trim degrees. The beginning charge is for the 2-wheel-force Ram 2500 Tradesman ordinary cab. But the Ram 3500 Limited Mega Cab 4×four with a 12-inch dash touch screen is available at $68,745 along with the vacation spot price.
The starting expenses assume buyers are getting the standard 6—Four-liter HEMI V-eight fuel engine with an eight-speed computerized transmission. The elective 6.7-liter Cummins faster-diesel with a six-velocity automated transmission – a distinctive version than the one to be had on the 3500 most effective – is an extra $9, one hundred.
Ram stated the new heavy-obligation pickup would have the phase’s maximum torque ratings, maximum towing at 35, a hundred pounds, and highest payload at 7,680 kilos.
NEW TECH
The new Rams will offer technology and features that make their way from passenger vehicles into work trucks. They include adaptive cruise management that may come to a full forestall even while towing and ahead-collision warning. The pickups additionally get a 360-degree surround-view digicam, trailer-opposite steering, the cargo-view camera with dynamic gridlines, auxiliary cameras, and a mattress-lowering gadget.
The new Ram Chassis Cab vehicles could have a towing capability of up to 35,220 kilos, a gross combined weight rating of forty-three,000 kilos, and a payload rating of up to 12,510 pounds.