2013 Dodge Ram 1500 Pickup Truck

The 2013 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck make world premiere at the New York Auto Show. The 2013 Dodge Ram 1500′s styling has been tweaked with a new, taller front grille and redesigned bumpers, running boards, and headlamps with LED fixtures for parking and turning. Inside, 2013 Dodge Ram 1500 has improved the interior with higher-grade materials and better fit and finish, along with all-new HVAC controls and multimedia systems. The truck also gets a new 3.5-inch vehicle information screen in the instrument cluster.

Engine specs the 2013 Dodge Ram 1500 comes with the new 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine that’s rated at 305HP and 269 lb.-ft. of torque, delivering 42 percent more horsepower, 13 percent more torque and at least 20 percent better fuel economy over the outgoing 3.7-liter V6. The new V6 2013 Dodge Ram 1500 is mated to a standard eight-speed automatic transmission dubbed TorqueFlite 8 that replaces the older V6′s four-speed auto. The new 8sp automatic will also be available next year on the tweaked 5.7-liter V8 HEMI that delivers an additional 5HP for a new total of 395HP. The new 2013 Dodge Ram 1500 equipped with the 8-speed unit ditch the column or floor shifters for a new rotary knob placed on the right-hand side of the center console. New fuel saving technologies include a stop-start system that is said to improve fuel economy by up to 3.3 percent, or about one mile-per-gallon to the truck’s city drive cycle.

Source: Dodge