What sort of car is the 2022 Ram 1500? What does it compete with?

The 1500 is Ram’s full-size pickup truck, one that may outperform the heavy-duty vans of just some years in the past with its highly effective V-8 engines, stout four-wheel-drive system, expansive four-door crew cab, and multi-talented mattress. It’s an enormous, beefy rival to the Ford F-150, Chevy Silverado, and GMC Sierra.

Is the 2022 Ram 1500 truck?

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It earns a TCC Ranking of 6.2 out of 10. If inexpensive variations got here with the newest security gear and if its V-8 have been extra economical, it’d rank a lot increased. (Learn extra about how we price vehicles.)

What’s new for the 2022 Ram 1500?

It will get just a few new trim packages, however the huge information is a brand new infotainment interface on Huge Horn 1500s and above, with quicker processing and a wi-fi hotspot. 

Ram sells the Ram in Tradesman, Huge Horn, Insurgent, Laramie, Laramie Longhorn, and Restricted trims. With the same old colour and grille variations, all sport a standard truck physique that’s misplaced the tractor-trailer look that used to tell apart the Ram from Ford and GM pickups. It’s a loss, however one which Ram makes up for with inside model that’s the perfect of its type in Restricted and Laramie Longhorn editions, with their refined trim decisions and balanced designs. 

The four-engine lineup squares up the Ram effectively in opposition to efficiency rivals, however it’s extra a two-horse race right here. The bottom 305-hp V-6 performs effectively sufficient to drive on a regular basis and to tow and haul from time to time; the brappy and torque 395-hp V-8 does all the things effectively, and comes closest to the F-150’s sky-high towing scores. Turbodiesel Rams will take a really very long time to earn again their further value in gasoline financial savings; a TRX offsets that meager eco-conscious transfer in any case, with its 702-hp supercharged V-8. Life’s all about decisions, proper? We’d select Ram’s extra subtle suspension setup versus its rivals; the extra complicated air-spring setup doesn’t have good trip management, so it’s a take-it-or-leave-it line merchandise. 

Ram takes a move on the common cab physique model—it’s all prolonged and crew cabs right here, and the latter gives scads of leg room and reclining rear seats to go along with a 5-foot-7 or a 6-foot-4 mattress. For an 8-foot mattress, you’ll have to buy elsewhere, however Ram will promote the same old scores of utility add-ons, from mattress liners to tailgate locks to cargo tie-downs.

Ram omits automated emergency braking from base 1500s, which dings its rating. Greater-spec vans have fancy add-ons like a head-up show and a surround-view digicam system, to not point out sturdy crash-test scores from the IIHS and the NHTSA.

How a lot does the 2022 Ram 1500 value?

Tradesman vans begin at $35,770, however don’t embrace automated emergency braking or a usefully sized touchscreen. We’d spec a $48,395 Ram 1500 Laramie with an 8.4-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, leather-based upholstery, and heated and cooled entrance seats for utility and luxurious. It’s potential to spend greater than $100,000 on a Ram TRX; we’re not saying it’s OK to spend all that, however we’re not saying it’s not OK, both. 

The place is the 2022 Ram 1500 made?

In Michigan.