{"id":24109,"date":"2019-08-20T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=24109"},"modified":"2019-08-20T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T17:08:51","slug":"ram-1500-ecodiesel-is-new-light-duty-diesel-towing-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/ram-1500-ecodiesel-is-new-light-duty-diesel-towing-champ","title":{"rendered":"Ram 1500 EcoDiesel is new light-duty diesel towing champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/08\/16\/PDTN\/65364626-dff1-479d-b564-e7c98c315f3e-ram_diesel_fr.jpg?width=520&amp;height=390&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2020 Ram 1500 Ecodiesel leads the class in towing with 12,560 - a major upgrade over the previous Ram diesel's 9,300 pounds. The diesel truck will start at $38,585.\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">The light-duty pickup wars have a new diesel towing champ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Ram says its all-new 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel will pull 12,560 pounds thanks to class-leading 480 foot-pounds of torque. That\u2019s a big leap from the previous-generation truck\u2019s 9,300 pounds and clears the Ford F-150 Power Stroke diesel\u2019s previous best 11,400 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Introduced in 2014, Ram\u2019s Ecodiesel was a pioneer in the light-duty truck segment but has since been joined by products from Ford and\u00a0Chevy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Ram also announced that pricing for\u00a0its diesel truck will start at $38,585 \u2013 a $4,995 option, or $3,000 premium over the 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 eTorque engine in Ram\u2019s lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The EcoDiesel is available across all models of the Ram 1500,\u00a0including for the first-time in its rambunctious, off-road Rebel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-SBd0JrtvUW4\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/08\/15\/PDTN\/5367c7ee-6756-4762-b161-4e2eb6f4087c-ram_ecodiesel_hood1nor3c9jg3umigk5fta9hqudnjo.jpg?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel\" width=\"540\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/08\/15\/PDTN\/5367c7ee-6756-4762-b161-4e2eb6f4087c-ram_ecodiesel_hood1nor3c9jg3umigk5fta9hqudnjo.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/08\/15\/PDTN\/5367c7ee-6756-4762-b161-4e2eb6f4087c-ram_ecodiesel_hood1nor3c9jg3umigk5fta9hqudnjo.jpg?width=500&amp;height=400\" \/>2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: FCA)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The Chevy Silverado Duramax diesel pulls 9,300 pounds but is the class leader in fuel economy \u2014\u00a0another closely-watched diesel metric \u2014\u00a0with 27 mpg average. Ram says it will publish the Ecodiesel\u2019s mpg numbers closer to its on sale date in the 4th quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The light-duty pickup wars have a new diesel towing champ. Ram says its all-new 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel will pull 12,560 pounds thanks to class-leading 480 foot-pounds of torque. That\u2019s a big leap from the previous-generation truck\u2019s 9,300 pounds and clears the Ford F-150 Power Stroke diesel\u2019s previous best 11,400 pounds. Introduced in 2014, Ram\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}