The Laramie he is driving is 83k. Actually it is 81400. Because it doesnt actually have the sunroof they had in the price. A base 4x4 Laramie is like 64.. pretty in line with previous year but many more standard features... But the one he is driving has advanced safety and handsfree driving assist. 4 k and 4k respectively. If you want hands free price will skyrocket

That’s not a base Laramie but yea the price is absurd I bought a 5th gen 2019 base Laramie for 39600 new. Sticker was 54k. This literally is stickered at double what I paid

@@johnmorris77 everything is more expensive now a days, but the HDs are the worst. Had a 2020 3500 Laramie 69000msrp I had 2 2022 3500 Laramie one ordered right at the beginning of the model year MSRP 76, ordered an identical one towards the end of the model year 88k.... SAME MODEL year.... 10k more. The 2024 I got, 101650...

@@clayolson8606 yea that’s absolutely ridiculous. 1 month ago I bought a duramax Zr2 sticker was 75k and I paid like 67800. And everyone on here was saying the Zr2 is way to expensive and I kept saying no it’s actually a pretty good deal if you look at the rebel and tremor and trd pro it’s the best truck for the money right now

As the price sky rockets so do the rebates.

In 2019 I bought my Ram Longhorn here in 🇨🇦. Price was $68100.00 before taxes. Ya prices are nuts

my 2022 Power Wagon (loaded) was 71K, 2024...84K

Yeah, 2025 laramies are already selling for under 60K at the dealerships..

To your point additionally, yours is a V8 and you're still getting equivalently better mileage and performance, therefore the ridiculous price hike in the cost of the newer truck is unwarranted and not justifiable at all. Give us a better performing transmission, maybe more reliable turbo technology with a longer-termed warranties especially if the manufacturer is going to jack up the price like they have still try to justify supply shortages as an issue, therefore I cannot see endorsing this new truck at this price point., IMO

This was figured on the old 12v and 24v turbo Cummins trucks. Once your above like 10 or 12 pounds of boost mpg suck. When you use boost your mpg are in the crap house happens to all engines boosted.

As a RAM owner, I feel really disappointed with these engines. I have a Bighorn Lone star 5.7 2022 and I will not change the HEMI for Hurricane.

The hemi does not have the low end torque of the hurricane.

They coulda done it years ago with the Hemi and chose not to. I wouldn’t count on it in the future.

@@jayray274 Hemi was too heavy. Not worth it.

The hemi is an optional engine on wranglers.

@@DusdaddyI guess, I just don’t think 266 lbs would make a huge change in payload.

@jayray… and @Dusdaddy 😃 So what engine do you guys think is in the 392 Rubicon Wrangler?

I have had 2 vehicles with this trans. I like it.

Your right on that. People need to understand that the Hemi and ZF trans is a perfect power plant. That’s the only reason I bought the Ram. For back in the day I wouldn’t touch them. Now Ram is the most reliable truck 5 years standing. Ya they have there issues but I will take those known issues compared to the Ford n GM issues. Love the truck…

​@@ramrider1453Hemi is just an old school engine, not bad, nothing special. But the ZF is unreal

Yup.

Millions? Stellantis has paid Tesla over 2.5 billion since 2017 buying their unused CAFE emission’s credits just to keep producing hemi’s. That doesn’t even touch the fines they’ve been paying on top of what they couldn’t cover with the BS government allocated credits. It’s also how Tesla has managed to stay profitable. They don’t hardly make any money selling cars. They satisfy the government’s ignorant definition of “carbon emissions”, and can do with their credits as they please. So they sell them to other auto makers. It’s a really weird system.

ZF transmission is god sent

I totally agree the turbo 6's don't get any better mileage than V8's unless you baby them. The #'s look great on the chassis dyno EPA test but in real world no better on fuel and often worse. Time will tell how the reliability is but the turbo 6's are more expensive, more complicated and more expensive to fix so unless you tow at high altitude I'm not really sure what the benefit is???

Nothing gets good fuel efficiency if you floor it

@@spinedoc893 the benefit is effortless towing

@@paulhunter9613 AND EXTREMELY SMOOTH!!

@@1gr8oil 👍

Yup, payload is a much bigger concern than towing capacity.

Thanks.

Said by no one that owns one

Agreed. Horizontal is preferred. The top portion is all that is used so it's like a low-end Nissan with a 8" screen.

@user-hw9lm1lf9n No, it does not 24+ MPG and great low end torque. Even in the city I get over 20MPG. Do you own a 3.0I6?

@turner… Of course he doesn’t. He wouldn’t say that if he would have one. According to every review and real owner experience the 3.0 is probably the best engine in the half ton market and that includes the 5.0 Ford V8 that I have. Today I would buy the baby Duramax instead.

@user-hw9lm1lf9nany dodge engine sucks.

Agreed. Price is ridiculous!

These half ton trucks aren't worth buying anymore. My 2022 F-250 Lariat with the Godzilla gas motor was $62,000 with tax, and after incentives.

Get what u pay for. Chevys burn oil. ALL OF THEM

@@fozzybear9114 yep

Your a mechanic? Then you should understand that Ram has greatly improved. Hemi and ZF transmission is solid since the last few years. Data shows there best in reliability so that says a lot. Ya they have there quarks and issues but so does Ford and GM. Ford has the highest record breaking call backs. But like anything. No maintence,then things don’t last.

@ramrider1453 You are correct the ZF 8 speed is a good transmission and has been around a while. I have no issues with that. Anytime a new engine platform is brought to the marketplace there are always bugs to be worked out. Anyone who thinks the auto manufacturers are looking out for the consumers best interests hasn't worked in a dealership. The only thing auto the manufactures care about is your new vehicle lasting until the warranty is expired. Then, planned obsolescence can take it's toll so you can buy another new vehicle.

@@bradley190 Your right on that. Hurricane will take time to prove out for sure. I was mostly thinking of the Hemi and it’s reliability. Theoretically the straight six should be a well designed engine but only real world tests will prove that out. 👍

Correct. With a 10 spd you are not using the top 2 to 3 gear ratios anyway.

Agree. We have RAM trucks in our fleet, over 70 of them...and we've never had an issue with one of them. Our guys beat the daylight out of these trucks and the entire fleet of trucks has held up amazingly and the transmissions have been bulletproof.

@@onthethrottle7104Same with the contractors at my work. That’s why I went with Ram. I seen it up and close how well Ram held up. Now the early years had there issues and to many. It will take time before people see that they picked up there game on reliability.

Some folk just have to complain about something. Chrysler is not forcing anyone to purchase their products. Most of these people couldn’t have been around during the late 70s, early 80s-90s. Most of the V8s were gone and turbo 6s & 4s were being sold.

It's odd in the beginning but amazingly easy to get used to. Nice thing is no loss of space on the console. More room for clutter!

So you're a big fan of the big ignorant column shift this does not connect to anything

@@ubeuonlyCHEVY WINS SOOOOOOOOOOOO

@@traciweisenbachCITB Chevy hasn't been anyone's First Choice in about 15 years. They failed so miserably trying to keep up with ram that they redesigned it in 2021 2 years after its introduction because it was such a failure for interior Spec. Engines blowing. Transmission issues. Good luck

They aren't taking them put on a hwy so it doesn't really matter. Looked like a mile maybe. They just wanted something wide to sho off the mirrors.

Absolutely true observation!

Unless you heat soak it for a few hours on the Interstate the numbers will be off

@@legrandechene3734 yea it should get better mpg on the interstate

I doubt you were towing all that at 85 miles an hour down the highway. That’s the big difference between trucks today and trucks from 30 years ago.

The thing that you have to remember is that the reason your old truck was able to do that is because emissions standards were much lower back then. All these new turbo engines got developed not because the manufacturers were striving for better MPG's, but because it was the only way to meet tougher emissions standards. I would really be interested to see what kind of MPG's they could get if they used modern tech without having to worry about emissions...

​@SuperSnakePlissken not ideal to tow any trailer at 85 mph . Most trailer manufacturers will also tell you that

I mean.... you probably SHOULDNT buy a new truck every year.

You can’t have any passangers with that payload.

Tongue weight loaded is going to be 800-1200 lbs depending on how you load and hook up the trailer So 200-600 pounds of people and stuff in the truck. For anything over 5,000 pounds, I would get a 3/4-1 ton. The half tons can tow a lot, but they don’t have the payload to carry a lot of people and stuff in the truck while towing the higher weights.

@@AJourneyOfYourSoul bingo….

@@rockyjay55 exactly

I paid 39,600 for a 5th gen 2019 Laramie 4x4 crew cab… sticker was 54k I wouldn’t even consider paying 80k+ for the same truck with a new motor.

I find it interesting that GM told me rear axle ratio doesn't matter for MPG and Ram tells me the opposite. I think it comes down to the transmission with extra gears for GM. They can basically mirror the performance of a 3.92 rear axle with the additional gearing while Ram still offers it. Good thought on a video.

Powertrain warranty hasn’t changed with 3 year/36,000 miles. No high output work truck unfortunately.

⁠@@Pickuptrucktalkisn’t the power train warranty something like 5 years 60,000 miles, 3 years 36,000 is for the full warranty if I’m not mistaken

@@arclay10 That’s sounds better. Honestly, I did a quick Google search this morning.

I think the S/O is good for most people including myself. I don't need the extra power. It will be a few months until you can likely test drive a H/O engine. They are going to build Big Horn with Pentastar engines to begin and then all other engines and trims.

@Pickuptrucktalk ...Thanks Tim! I can't wait to see all of what you do with your new truck. I'm interested in seeing how strong the new straight six motor is going to be, moving forward. In the meantime, I'll stick with my 21 Titan (5.6L V8) until I see what happens with this new engine. Then I'll consider the 25 Ram for my next truck down the road.

I don't recall them talking about daytime running lights at all. I've checked all the information they sent me and I don't have any details on DRLs.

@@Pickuptrucktalk thanks Tim. Appreciate the video, especially covering the bighorn.

@@PickuptrucktalkIf it’s Sold in Canada it’s a requirement usually the automaker will keep that component consistent here as well.

11,300.

Not a Tundra w/ rear air. 1400lbs is respectable, considering the options and air suspension.

No Cybertruck. Sorry to disappoint! LOL

Why do you think you need to upgrade the radiator and coat the other parts?

@Pickuptrucktalk I live in Lancaster, CA. Anywhere I drive involves going over big hills. When I looked at a Wagoneer with this engine. Someone else finished a test drive and had the hood up. I just thought too much heat was coming off the engine and radiator. My Ecodiesel seemed cooler, even though it sometimes runs a little warm on I-70 in Utah. Our Cummins powered Ram 2500 is just fine. Some formulations of plasma sprayed material reject heat better than other materials. But way back in the 1970's, a guy I worked with had a Chevy Vega. He upgraded the radiator to a 3 row. His all aluminum engine worked fine for years. He only replaced the car because the interior plastic was rotting after 10 years of the California sun. When the Ram Ramcharger comes out. I will really have a hard choice about which pickup to trade my Ecodiesel in on. The Hurricane engine, Ramcharger, or the Chevy 3.0L diesel.

@@jameseroh6544 fyi I’m working on an interview with the engineer chief and cooling is one of the topics. I’m hoping to get our timing figured out in the next few days. That would be a good video for you.

Also, I had ceramic coated headers on an '03 Ford Explorer 4.0L. All the underhood plastic and rubber parts have been in good condition. I am currently getting caught up on the deferred maintenance. And plan to give the Explorer to my grandson. It looks like new inside and out!

@@Pickuptrucktalk- I look forward to any video you present to us.

Funny you mention that. I heard some wind noise and I should have said that on camera.

Its mostly how this one was spec'd out. Ramboxes and air suspension are $5000 alone.

@@hellkitty1014 OK but then you’re talking $78K for a mid-level 1/2 ton. In ‘23 I bought a GMC SIERRA SLT 1500 4x4 with the 3 liter diesel, multifunction tailgate, 2-speed transfer case, x-31 off road package, SLT preferred and convenience packages for $65K. This was considered a mid-level truck. In 2019 I looked at a RAM1500 Laramie also well specked out and it was like $52K. Yikes🤔

@@Pickuptrucktalk And you weren’t traveling at highway speeds.

Nope. Nebraska.

I get that number after the massive towing test I put out.

A V8 HEMI towing and a turbo engine towing will behave drastically different for mpg. The turbo will drop way more than the NA V8. Any turbo will do this ie the Tacoma turbo 4 at TFL had half the mpg when towing.

He was doing more start/stopping type of towing in this review. A constant speed on the interstate of 65mph should bring up the mpgs

I don't think it helps when you reset the mpg to zero and then idle for 2 minutes at 0 mpg while you talk either.

@@chadwegner2705 2 minutes of idling isn’t going to make any difference.

IIRC that's what the slip of paper said. Sorry, I don't have time at press events to double check everything.

Launch event. You should look up the (ex)-car journalist’s video about his Volkswagen launch event experience. I forgot the channel’s name. Launch event and negative comments don’t mix or that was your last launch event.

I read that article and that guy was full of shit. We all made fun of his stupidity. I glossed it over because there is a TON of information to cover at these events, nothing more than that. You just don't have the time to cover things as well as you'd like. When I get it for a press loan or I buy one, I'll have more time to discuss payload numbers and a host of other things I missed.

Ok I stand corrected but I still have a hard time thinking of a single launch event video of any channel of any brand where a single negative comment is mentioned about any aspect of the vehicle in review. What I found was that you better read between the lines. Some channels might do a damn with faint praise comment. Or an understatement, like, “Maybe this new Tacoma doesn’t have a vastly improved rear seat legroom “. 😃 Nobody will say at the Tacoma launch event:”This rear seat leg room is terrible.” And that’s fine. You don’t sh$t on the carpet at a the host’s house if you are an invited guest in good company, either.

@@is6566 it's not that you can't say anything negative. I've left many launch events and didn't love the vehicle and I've said it on camera. Instead, it is more of information overload. You are bombarded with an hour plus of presentations and then boom you get to drive for less than 2 hours in most cases. Like with this event. Presentation didn't get over until 10 am, then we drove to lunch, ate and were back in the bus by 3 pm. You have to film interior, exterior, do a towing demo, off-road portion, KZfaq shorts, photos, etc... Its a LOT. You don't have time to really critique things because you are focusing on everything that is new and different. I did say I didn't like the tow mirrors that much in this video. So I got one critique in. I also have another video that just went live discussing how the H/O engine is fun, but not something I'd pay for because of the premium fuel requirement. So I did offer some critiques. The big thing to remember is if every review is OMG this is AMAZING that's not really helpful to viewers OR the automakers. The automakers are far more interested in what I don't like versus what I do. They can fix what I don't IF I tell them what I don't like. You can't fix what you don't know is broken as the saying goes.

@@Pickuptrucktalk I get it. I was just fresh off watching that video obviously. Lol. It's all good. Enjoy your content.

Nope. What's your thought on the reason?

Reviewers might find that overall the six is not an improvement ?@@Pickuptrucktalk

@@rodgoodI suppose. A lot of manufacturers bring the past model to test drive at events. Honestly, I wouldn't have had time to drive it. I completely missed the off-road portion, for example, due to filming other stuff and a massive headache. Just what it was.

@@rodgood If you can get almost the same hp with a 6 as you can with an 8 cylinder, that means the 8 cylinder is wasting almost ¼ of the gas you bought.

So the Six will get 25% better fuel economy ?@@garysarratt1

Great critic. I should have done that. I did put a chassis walkaround in the Big Horn video.

Already out there looks clean, miles ahead of ford's mess

@@angrybeavers1175 funny how much a plastic engine cover can clean up the engine bay. LOL Yeah, there are photos of it from corporate and you can find it online.

​@@angrybeavers1175stupid comment an engine cover does what? Traps heat and dust and is only for looks and is one more thing to remove when doing repairs.

Natural.

Credit to Ram for being on the ball. Everyone else misses their release dates. Ram was selling 2019 new models in April of 2018 also. Ford can't get 2024s to the lots. Same with Tacomas.

@@Dusdaddy Ram is selling 2019 models as “new” in 2024 🙄

@@garysarratt1 Ahh, you're downplaying the "new" part? Think about it, Ram hasn't had a different engine since the Hemi was introduced over 20 years ago. Yeah, it qualifies as new.

@@Dusdaddy The Classic?

@@garysarratt1 The classic is the 2012 design which was a mild refresh of the 2009.

I can say that ford does not hunt for gears. Ever

Night edition.

LOL. Nope.

Raptors hold their value better because of the intentional short supply from Ford, but Ford limited is the same price as a Tungsten