2014 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 Crew Cab Review
Road exam: 2014 Ram 1500 Laramie Coiffure Cab 4x4
Swanky and powerful pickup offers excellent interior and Hemi V8 power
Overview Swanky and powerful pickup
Pros Award-winning interior, Hemi V8
Cons Thirsty, hard ingress for short people
Value for coin Fair
What would I change? Running boards a must
For a week, I was "that guy." Past way of explanation, in suburbia (at least where I live), "that guy" is the guy who owns a pickup truck, the guy you lot become to when y'all need something big and heavy picked up or removed — something that won't fit in your crossover, compact sport-ute or sedan. If he's a close friend or neighbour — and yous don't abuse the privilege too often — he's normally happy to assistance out, especially if tempted with a case of beer or a fuel tank fill-up. If he's not, well, that doesn't much happen, because everybody wants to be friends with that guy.
In my neighbourhood, that guy is across the street, an affable sort with a Chevy Silverado. Unfortunately, he was away for the week and I needed to move a number of furniture pieces from one house to another. Left to my own devices, a couple of emails to my go-to contact at Chrysler Canada found me in an indecently upscale (just shy of $60,000) Hemi V8-powered Ram 1500 Laramie Crew Cab iv×4.
To say I was gob-smacked would be an understatement. The comfort, the amenities, the view! OK, information technology's not that I haven't driven a pickup earlier, only it'southward rare (not Yeti sighting rare, just close) because, well, a full-sized pickup is a tight squeeze in my driveway. Plus, in my footling corner of the 'burbs, at that place's that guy across the street when I absolutely need… You lot get the picture.
If you're expecting a review of such important truck-y stuff as gross vehicle weight ratings, towing chapters and such, move on. I had to move furniture, not a xxx-foot Sabre Marking III sailboat. So, it was only dropping the tailgate (power lockable) and loading whatever would fit in the short box, which, fortunately, had the optional ($525) spray-in bedliner so equally not to scratch upward the tester's nice Deep Cherry Scarlet Crystal Pearl pigment task. (Just to provide an idea of how far things have come, my belatedly dad's '67 Fargo half-ton, something he picked up betwixt buying Jeeps, was painted fleet orange. The amenities it had amounted to an AM radio).
By comparison, the creature comforts found in the Laramie would rival most luxury sedans, an ascertainment not lost on my married woman, who remarked, "This is a truck?" In that location's premium leather front bench seats with power lumbar aligning with oestrus and ventilation, a heated and leather-wrapped steering wheel, dual-zone climate control, ability-adaptable pedals, nine-speaker audio arrangement, viii.4-inch touchscreen display and (pardon the expression) a truck-load more. If it wasn't for the sheer size of the Ram — which fabricated negotiating certain narrow side streets, thanks to the now-shrinking snowfall banks, a fleck tentative — one could imagine being inside i of those European models. (Allow me to throw out a compliment — having just driven the brand-new 2015 Cadillac Escalade with its sumptuous motel, I can honestly say the Laramie'south interior with its stitched-leather nuance comes a close 2nd. Plus, I found the Ram's touchscreen and its copious displays easier to access every bit well as view.)
Offsetting the Ram's size is the commanding forrad view it affords. Rear visibility is, naturally, non the best, peculiarly with a mahogany highboy in the back, but the rear-view photographic camera and the ParkSense'southward sound alert cut downwards on the cervix craning.
Though I'm no practiced when it comes to pickups, it would seem the combination of amend fuel economy and 420 pound-anxiety of stump-pulling torque would have me leaning toward the new iii.0-litre V6 EcoDiesel as the engine of selection. That said, there's niggling to fault with the 395-horsepower 5.7L Hemi V8 and eight-speed transmission other than fuel economy. The Ram is exceedingly smooth when cruising, and accelerates with little effort, hitting 100 kilometres an hour in 7.6 seconds when given a prod — non shabby at all for a two,510-kilogram truck — and pulling off an eighty-to-120 movement in a quick 5.ane seconds. The 16.4 litres per 100 km fuel economy average I accomplished doesn't come up anywhere close to the diesel, just was acceptable considering the corporeality of in-boondocks driving I did — and the cylinder deactivation mode is as unobtrusive as information technology is ambitious, specially on the highway. Active aerodynamics including grille shutters and air intermission also assist at the pumps.
Speaking of the air suspension (a $i,500 choice), the ride it delivered is worth every cent. The Ram positively glided over every cringe-worthy pothole, railway track and chewed-up dirt road thrown at it. It also raises and lowers the truck, though not nearly enough for my 5-foot-tall wife. The whole truck would take to drop down a foot or two so she could get in the cabin with some sense of dignity. Without running boards, information technology was a full upper body workout to haul herself in. At half dozen-foot-2, I had no such issues — my butt and the driver's seat lined up perfectly. I even institute enough legroom in the Coiffure Cab's back seats, though I would prefer a little more thigh support.
On one side of the coin, I can see the Ram 1500's appeal. At that place'southward plenty of all-weather function to the pickup, with its on-need four-wheel-bulldoze system and towing capacity (up to 9,900 pounds, depending on the axle ratio), plus skillful visibility, comfy ride and that open box with which to haul things.
On the other mitt, at that place's niggling room for it with the other two family unit vehicles in the driveway. The Hemi too makes it a thirsty beast. But, most of all, the Laramie version is too pretty and besides pricey to treat equally the neighbourhood pack mule. All of which ways I'll just have to go on beingness overnice to that guy across the street.
The Specs
Type of vehicle Four-wheel-drive full-sized pickup
Engine 5.7L Hemi V8
Power 395 hp @ five,600 rpm; 410 lb.-ft. of torque @ 3,500 rpm
Transmission Eight-speed automatic
Brakes Four-wheel disc with ABS
Tires P275/60R20
Price (base of operations/as tested) $52,195/$57,695
Destination charge $1,695
Natural Resources Canada fuel economy (L/100 km) 14.6 city, nine.8 highway
Standard features 7-inch reconfigurable in-cluster display eye, Uconnect multimedia centre, automated dual-zone climate control, LED interior lighting, ability x-manner commuter'southward seat with memory and six-fashion passenger seats, front end and rear-door accent lighting, memory feature for radio/commuter's seat/mirrors/pedals, leather-wrapped heated steering bike with audio controls, 10-speaker sound system including subwoofer and 552-watt amplifier, chrome forepart and rear bumpers, xx-inch chrome-clad aluminum wheels, chrome grille, security alarm, rear backup camera, power-folding heated, chrome mirrors with position memory, machine-dimming, supplemental turn signal and courtesy lamps, dual rear exhaust with bright tips
Options Four corner air suspension ($one,500), premium leather-trimmed forepart bucket seats, heated and ventilated ($i,200), Convenience Group with remote keyless entry, rain-sensing windshield wipers and auto loftier-beam headlamp control ($400), anti-spin differential rear beam ($525), ParkSense front end/rear park help ($500), remote start system ($395), Class IV receiver hitch ($375), trailer brake control ($350), spray-in bedliner ($525)
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