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09-17-2014 | 04:31 AM
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Secret Hot Rod? The 2015 Ram 1500 R/T Hemi
Neither li'l nor red, but the express part is there.
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By Mike Sutton September 14, 2014 / Photos by Michael Simari
The pickup boom of the 1990s and early 2000s brought an explosion of model configurations and trims, as more people began using these once-workhorses as everyday vehicles. Of course, the most dichotomous new species was the sport truck. Pickups focused on performance had existed before—see Express, Li’l Red—but such exercises in silliness peaked when Dodge stuffed the Viper’s 500-hp V10 into the Ram’s engine bay and created the monstrous SRT10—with a manual transmission no less. It set the (still-standing) top-speed record for production trucks at nearly 155 mph.
While refinement, towing capability, and off-road prowess have since taken precedence over outright speed, Chrysler will still sell you a quick, cool truck. The 2015 Ram 1500 R/T, for example, comes awfully close to hitting the performance marks of its wilder predecessors yet also delivers a level of refinement those bruisers lacked.
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Michael SimariReady To Run
Based on the mid-level Sport trim, the 2015 R/T looks like a proper sport truck and is available only in rear-wheel-drive, standard-cab form with a six-foot, four-inch box. The lone engine choice is the 395-hp, 5.7-liter Hemi V8; it backs up to an 8HP70 eight-speed automatic that spins a 3.92:1 rear-axle ratio. At 5106 pounds, it’s not light—for example, the standard chrome 22-inch wheels wrapped in 285/45-series all-season Goodyears weigh about 90 pounds each. But the Hemi’s 410 lb-ft of torque and the quick-thinking, many-geared ’box win the day when you mash the go pedal.
The truck returned an impressive 5.4-second dash to 60 mph, with the quarter-mile passing in 14.1 at 99 mph. Both figures are at the strong end for current production pickups and just 0.5-second behind the mighty SRT10. Alas, the R/T is no top-speed champ, with its governor dropping anchor at 106 mph. Stopping prowess from 70 mph (189 feet) and lateral grip on the skidpad (0.76 g) are modest at best, yet the truck maintains a sure-footed and balanced feel, thanks to the multiple-link and coil-spring rear suspension and a respectable 54/46-percent weight distribution front to rear.
Despite its purposeful stance, the R/T’s suspension setup is the same as that of normal Ram 1500 models. As a result, overall ride quality remains carlike despite the short wheelbase, and the truck boasts payload and towing capacities of 1380 and 5050 pounds. As expected of a large, heavy thing with a big Hemi engine, our observed fuel economy was a meager 15 mpg. That puts it in line with most of the V8 pickups we’ve evaluated.
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Michael SimariLuxury Creep
The standard-cab R/T is a small, tidy package for a full-sizer, which is appreciated in parking lots, but our test truck’s bucket seats limited occupancy to just two. There is, however, space for a couple of overnight bags behind the seats, and you can add two locking storage bins if you choose the $1295 RamBox bedside compartments.
Ram doesn’t break out the R/T as a stand-alone thing, but Sport models automatically become R/Ts when configured with the V-8, rear-drive, the standard cab, and the short bed. Pricing for such a setup starts at $36,225 and includes the R/T’s vented hood, big wheels, and monochromatic styling, as well as a dizzying array of amenities compared with sport trucks of yore: a limited-slip diff, a 26-gallon fuel tank, keyless entry, front and side-curtain airbags, a rearview camera, 8.4-inch touch-screen infotainment, a heated steering wheel, a seven-inch digital cluster display, a rotary gear selector, a full-length center console, power-adjustable pedals, power and heated exterior mirrors, and more.
The RamBox compartments were the priciest option on our test truck. Also included was the $665 Trailer Tow and Brake package (wider trailering mirrors, Class IV hitch, and an integrated trailer-brake controller), a $500 tri-fold tonneau cover, the $495 Convenience package (automatic high beams, proximity entry and start, and rain-sensing wipers), a $475 spray-in bedliner, and a $350 remote start and upgraded security bundle. A $195 single-disc CD player in the console, a $140 rear sliding rear window, and a $90 engine-block heater finished things off for a final tally of $40,430. That’s steep for a smallish truck that could prove a handful in wintry conditions, but the overall execution is slick and menacing.
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Michael SimariBecause It’s Fun
The Ram R/T doesn’t have any direct competitors, as Ford’s F-150 Tremor died in the transition to the all-new aluminum 2015 F-150. The Tremor’s turbocharged EcoBoost V6 lacked the R/T’s V8 rumble, enough of a sin for us to choose the Ram, but it was also slower, more expensive, and less fun to wheel. GMC’s 420-hp Sierra 1500 Denali crew cab 4x4 runs neck-and-neck with the R/T up to 100 mph, but a ginormous $55,000 luxo-truck isn’t anyone’s idea of a hot rod.
Sporty pickups are cool in ways that defy common sense. Yet although it’s noticeably more agile and fun to drive than the larger, crew-cab behemoths that dominate the light-truck market, the R/T is still a workaday pickup and its sportiness mostly a veneer. Now it’s time for Ram to go all the way, leveraging Chrysler’s new supercharged, 707-hp Hellcat V8 to elevate the top-speed record for pickups.
Neither li'l nor red, but the express part is there.
Member's, do you like it ? Post & let us know ?
By Mike Sutton September 14, 2014 / Photos by Michael Simari
The pickup boom of the 1990s and early 2000s brought an explosion of model configurations and trims, as more people began using these once-workhorses as everyday vehicles. Of course, the most dichotomous new species was the sport truck. Pickups focused on performance had existed before—see Express, Li’l Red—but such exercises in silliness peaked when Dodge stuffed the Viper’s 500-hp V10 into the Ram’s engine bay and created the monstrous SRT10—with a manual transmission no less. It set the (still-standing) top-speed record for production trucks at nearly 155 mph.
While refinement, towing capability, and off-road prowess have since taken precedence over outright speed, Chrysler will still sell you a quick, cool truck. The 2015 Ram 1500 R/T, for example, comes awfully close to hitting the performance marks of its wilder predecessors yet also delivers a level of refinement those bruisers lacked.
RELATED: The 2014 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon X is freakishly capable
Michael SimariReady To RunBased on the mid-level Sport trim, the 2015 R/T looks like a proper sport truck and is available only in rear-wheel-drive, standard-cab form with a six-foot, four-inch box. The lone engine choice is the 395-hp, 5.7-liter Hemi V8; it backs up to an 8HP70 eight-speed automatic that spins a 3.92:1 rear-axle ratio. At 5106 pounds, it’s not light—for example, the standard chrome 22-inch wheels wrapped in 285/45-series all-season Goodyears weigh about 90 pounds each. But the Hemi’s 410 lb-ft of torque and the quick-thinking, many-geared ’box win the day when you mash the go pedal.
The truck returned an impressive 5.4-second dash to 60 mph, with the quarter-mile passing in 14.1 at 99 mph. Both figures are at the strong end for current production pickups and just 0.5-second behind the mighty SRT10. Alas, the R/T is no top-speed champ, with its governor dropping anchor at 106 mph. Stopping prowess from 70 mph (189 feet) and lateral grip on the skidpad (0.76 g) are modest at best, yet the truck maintains a sure-footed and balanced feel, thanks to the multiple-link and coil-spring rear suspension and a respectable 54/46-percent weight distribution front to rear.
Despite its purposeful stance, the R/T’s suspension setup is the same as that of normal Ram 1500 models. As a result, overall ride quality remains carlike despite the short wheelbase, and the truck boasts payload and towing capacities of 1380 and 5050 pounds. As expected of a large, heavy thing with a big Hemi engine, our observed fuel economy was a meager 15 mpg. That puts it in line with most of the V8 pickups we’ve evaluated.
RELATED: Is the 2014 Lingenfelter Chevy Reaper a 550-hp Raptor slayer?
Michael SimariLuxury CreepThe standard-cab R/T is a small, tidy package for a full-sizer, which is appreciated in parking lots, but our test truck’s bucket seats limited occupancy to just two. There is, however, space for a couple of overnight bags behind the seats, and you can add two locking storage bins if you choose the $1295 RamBox bedside compartments.
Ram doesn’t break out the R/T as a stand-alone thing, but Sport models automatically become R/Ts when configured with the V-8, rear-drive, the standard cab, and the short bed. Pricing for such a setup starts at $36,225 and includes the R/T’s vented hood, big wheels, and monochromatic styling, as well as a dizzying array of amenities compared with sport trucks of yore: a limited-slip diff, a 26-gallon fuel tank, keyless entry, front and side-curtain airbags, a rearview camera, 8.4-inch touch-screen infotainment, a heated steering wheel, a seven-inch digital cluster display, a rotary gear selector, a full-length center console, power-adjustable pedals, power and heated exterior mirrors, and more.
The RamBox compartments were the priciest option on our test truck. Also included was the $665 Trailer Tow and Brake package (wider trailering mirrors, Class IV hitch, and an integrated trailer-brake controller), a $500 tri-fold tonneau cover, the $495 Convenience package (automatic high beams, proximity entry and start, and rain-sensing wipers), a $475 spray-in bedliner, and a $350 remote start and upgraded security bundle. A $195 single-disc CD player in the console, a $140 rear sliding rear window, and a $90 engine-block heater finished things off for a final tally of $40,430. That’s steep for a smallish truck that could prove a handful in wintry conditions, but the overall execution is slick and menacing.
RELATED: Toyota's Raptor-fighting TRD Pro Series
Michael SimariBecause It’s FunThe Ram R/T doesn’t have any direct competitors, as Ford’s F-150 Tremor died in the transition to the all-new aluminum 2015 F-150. The Tremor’s turbocharged EcoBoost V6 lacked the R/T’s V8 rumble, enough of a sin for us to choose the Ram, but it was also slower, more expensive, and less fun to wheel. GMC’s 420-hp Sierra 1500 Denali crew cab 4x4 runs neck-and-neck with the R/T up to 100 mph, but a ginormous $55,000 luxo-truck isn’t anyone’s idea of a hot rod.
Sporty pickups are cool in ways that defy common sense. Yet although it’s noticeably more agile and fun to drive than the larger, crew-cab behemoths that dominate the light-truck market, the R/T is still a workaday pickup and its sportiness mostly a veneer. Now it’s time for Ram to go all the way, leveraging Chrysler’s new supercharged, 707-hp Hellcat V8 to elevate the top-speed record for pickups.
This article originally appeared at CARandDRIVER.com
Last edited by Space; 09-17-2014 at 04:43 AM.
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09-17-2014 | 04:39 AM
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09-17-2014 | 04:52 AM
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09-17-2014 | 05:12 AM
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Aston Martin's New Lagonda El-Camino-ized
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 2:15 pm | Posted by John Halas
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Come hell or high water, no matter how many petrol-dollars some oil-rich Sheikh flashes at Aston Martin's brass, an official Lagonda pickup truck will never happen. At least that's what the reasonable part of my head is saying.
Now, independent coachbuilders are another story entirely and I wouldn't rule out the possibility of someone having the guts to carve out an existing Lagonda, but even in this case, we'd probably see a Shooting Brake first before anything else.
If you haven't figure it out already, the picture of the Lagonda ute is a digital rendering from X-Tomi.
The actual Lagonda sedan is scheduled for a market launch exclusively in the Middle East early next year.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 2:15 pm | Posted by John Halas
FILED UNDERASTON MARTINASTON MARTIN CONCEPTSASTON MARTIN LAGONDACONCEPTSRENDERINGS
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Come hell or high water, no matter how many petrol-dollars some oil-rich Sheikh flashes at Aston Martin's brass, an official Lagonda pickup truck will never happen. At least that's what the reasonable part of my head is saying.
Now, independent coachbuilders are another story entirely and I wouldn't rule out the possibility of someone having the guts to carve out an existing Lagonda, but even in this case, we'd probably see a Shooting Brake first before anything else.
If you haven't figure it out already, the picture of the Lagonda ute is a digital rendering from X-Tomi.
The actual Lagonda sedan is scheduled for a market launch exclusively in the Middle East early next year.
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09-17-2014 | 06:53 AM
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Comparing the wheelbases of the Camaro prototype and the Impala—that specific image suffers less perspective distortion—reveals the test mule to have a roughly 109.32-inch wheelbase. Unsurprisingly, this figure is more or less identical to that of the ATS coupe and sedan, and a full three inches shorter than the wheelbase of today’s Camaro. The ATS is one of the best-handling cars around, which should bode well for the Camaro’s dynamics. Also helping handling—not to mention fuel economy—will be an expected curb-weight reduction of 300 to 400 pounds.
Getting a handle on the 2016 Camaro’s length and width is made nearly impossible, however, thanks to this prototype’s heavy camouflage. Most of the cover-up job intentionally misrepresents the body’s shape, especially around the rear-window and C-pillar areas, and the extra padding atop the hood and rear fenders. Some sheetmetal visible through the camo hints at a faster roofline than the current Camaro’s, and the front and rear ends likely taper far more than the camo would lead you to believe. The quad exhaust outlets on this mule indicate that it is at least a V-8–powered SS model, but the ZL1-style split-spoke wheels and the possible presence of a decklid spoiler could point to an even higher-performance variant.
Powertrain: We don’t see V-6 and V-8 engine choices going anywhere, but a turbocharged four-cylinder could join the options list to give Chevrolet ammunition against the EcoBoost Mustang. We also expect that the latest, fifth-generation small-block V-8 from the Corvette and Silverado will replace the current Camaro’s 6.2-liter LS3 engine, and the CTS Vsport’s twin-turbo 3.6-liter V-6 should fit just fine, too. Buyers likely will still have the option to manually shift through six transmission speeds, while the automatic gearbox should be GM’s eight-speeder.
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Estimated Arrival and Price: The new Camaro will debut sometime in 2015 and go on sale later the same year as a 2016 model. A convertible will likely follow a bit later, but there will be a convertible. Don’t expect the starting sticker to stray too far from today’s $24,550 base price. Camaro pricing will need to line up fairly well with Ford’s pricing for the new Mustang, after all. View Photo Gallery
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What It Is: Chevrolet’s next Ford Mustang fighter, photographed while testing and with current GM products nearby for scale. That last bit is important, because we know the 2016 Camaro is migrating to the same rear-drive Alpha platform that underpins the Cadillac ATS, and the move is expected to bring a reduction in size.
Why It Matters: With a new Mustang about to take the pony-car segment by storm and Dodge’s insane 707-hp Challenger SRT Hellcat stealing headlines, Chevrolet needs to get the Camaro in fighting shape, and soon. The shift to GM’s lighter, scalable Alpha platform will cure many of the ills that plague today’s Camaro—among them its portly curb weight, big footprint, and long roof that imparts a sedan-ish profile. The car currently rides on a cut-down version of the same Zeta architecture that underpins larger sedans like the Chevrolet SS and fleet-duty Caprice.
Platform: Have we mentioned the Alpha bones enough yet? While that architecture is also underneath the Cadillac CTS, these photos make it clear that the new car will hew closer to the ATS in size. Our spy photographer snagged this camouflaged Camaro near other GM products for which we have spec sheets, including a Cadillac Escalade ESV and a Chevrolet Impala.
Comparing the wheelbases of the Camaro prototype and the Impala—that specific image suffers less perspective distortion—reveals the test mule to have a roughly 109.32-inch wheelbase. Unsurprisingly, this figure is more or less identical to that of the ATS coupe and sedan, and a full three inches shorter than the wheelbase of today’s Camaro. The ATS is one of the best-handling cars around, which should bode well for the Camaro’s dynamics. Also helping handling—not to mention fuel economy—will be an expected curb-weight reduction of 300 to 400 pounds.
Getting a handle on the 2016 Camaro’s length and width is made nearly impossible, however, thanks to this prototype’s heavy camouflage. Most of the cover-up job intentionally misrepresents the body’s shape, especially around the rear-window and C-pillar areas, and the extra padding atop the hood and rear fenders. Some sheetmetal visible through the camo hints at a faster roofline than the current Camaro’s, and the front and rear ends likely taper far more than the camo would lead you to believe. The quad exhaust outlets on this mule indicate that it is at least a V-8–powered SS model, but the ZL1-style split-spoke wheels and the possible presence of a decklid spoiler could point to an even higher-performance variant.
Top: 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28. Bottom: 2016 Chevrolet Camaro (spy photo).
Powertrain: We don’t see V-6 and V-8 engine choices going anywhere, but a turbocharged four-cylinder could join the options list to give Chevrolet ammunition against the EcoBoost Mustang. We also expect that the latest, fifth-generation small-block V-8 from the Corvette and Silverado will replace the current Camaro’s 6.2-liter LS3 engine, and the CTS Vsport’s twin-turbo 3.6-liter V-6 should fit just fine, too. Buyers likely will still have the option to manually shift through six transmission speeds, while the automatic gearbox should be GM’s eight-speeder.
Competition: Dodge Challenger, Ford Mustang, Scion FR-S, Subaru BRZ.
Estimated Arrival and Price: The new Camaro will debut sometime in 2015 and go on sale later the same year as a 2016 model. A convertible will likely follow a bit later, but there will be a convertible. Don’t expect the starting sticker to stray too far from today’s $24,550 base price. Camaro pricing will need to line up fairly well with Ford’s pricing for the new Mustang, after all. View Photo Gallery
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09-17-2014 | 08:51 AM
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Hi `Tadd,
Since U are going to see your attorney 2day, put in a request to get a truck for your `Mother
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