The 6.4 is a nice engine in the 2500. It’d be nice to have as decent and reliable of an engine in the 1500, the 1500 rides so much better than the 2500.

The thing to keep in mind is that trucks are typically serviceable. If you want to maintain and repair it, you can keep it going for a million miles without much trouble. It’s a lot more difficult to do that with most modern cars.

The 6.4 or the na 7.3 in the Ford are the only truck engines that may get me away from my Cummins in the next decade or so.

The main complaints I’ve heard on the Ram heavy duty of the last 5 years is the amount of recalls they’ve had. It’s nice that they correct the issues, but the added downtime for people who use their trucks for their business is a deal breaker.

Thank you! Unfortunately, that won’t be for a couple years :(. He’s going to tear it all down and rebuild. He’ll put the body in a rotisserie and redo everything, but he’ll send the drivetrain to his best friend who was a master mechanic for Datsun back in the day(my dad ran the auto body shop).

I'm actually about to go see that truck, along with the Duel truck and the one from Smokey and the Bandit. 

Thank you, I’ll let him know! Do you have pics of yours? I’ll try posting them and hope I don’t get kinja’d. The paint looks good in the pics, but he plans on completely stripping the paint and fixing up the panels. He also plans a full off frame restoration.

Frankly, the power isn't needed. The stock 150 hp of the twin carb version is too much power for that tiny car.

My father just bought one of these to restore and I could not ever imagine needing more than the factory 150 hp.

Power is how fast you accelerate to hit the wall, torque is how you go after taking the wall with you. Where the Ram makes peak torque, it’s only making 130 hp. The Jetta is only making making 60 hp at the peak torque.

180 hp for a 2 ton vehicle isn’t enough? One of my vehicles is a 7,500 lb Ram 2500 with a 180 hp Cummins. It has no issues merging when running on the stock settings. The same goes for my 100 hp MKV Jetta.

Diesel guru here:

I’m excited to see how this engine turns out. It should great option for those who just need a reliable heavy duty truck, nothing more, nothing less.

Phoenix sits near the 33rd parallel, Germany shares the 49th with the Canadian border. Phoenix doesn’t have to design their infrastructure for the shrinkage issues Germany and George Costanza experiences.

Texas infrastructure isn’t designed to handle the colder conditions of the 49th parallel(same as most of the Canadian border).

As a 6'8" person who sat in the back of many trucks, the mega cab is no longer needed. The crew cab Ram has legroom that’s nearly identical to the mega cab, the mega cab just reclines a little and takes away your option for an 8 foot bed.

I’ll gladly take you share of broccoli.

Yup, diesel doesn't save much except when under load. Those driving their trucks without a trailer are better off with the gasser. 

My father restored a few muscle cars, but this one and the Sunbeam Tiger were the only ones he’d consider keeping. Those Sunbeams are nutty, it’s often you see an English car with a Ford motor and a Chrysler pentastar logo.

Will the autonomous car be able to stand its ground?