Engineer Dan Edmunds takes a deep dive under the Ram 1500 to explain its trademark coil-spring rear suspension.
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Let's face facts, you're NOT fielding a full size pickup with as 12,000 LB towing capacity with anything other than a live rear axle. So you can call it crude in relationship to offerings in mid size SUV's that cater to a different segment of the market, but that's apples and oranges. Car and Driver also describes the DT platform as having "multi link suspension".
Enhanced tech, fresh styling, and a twin-turbo inline-six improve the 2025 Ram 1500, which maintains its dominant position among full-size trucks.
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It IS a pickup truck. I drive this truck every day, as I have had pickup trucks for my daily drivers for 20+ years. It's still. A truck. It's not going to handle like a Range Rover or a BMW mid size SUV. Every vehicle on the road is a compromise in some way. If you felt "unsafe" driving it, you would feel unsafe driving any full size pickup truck.
This truck with the 5.7 isn't slow. I'm sorry, I just totally disagree with you there. It's a 400HP engine in a 4900 LB vehicle. It's really hard to get "slow" from a 12.2 HP/W ratio vehicle.