The latest generation of great American Ram 1500 pickup will acquire economical diesel engine. This
was announced officially by the company Chrysler, as explained, that
the modification will be called Ram 1500 EcoDiesel and start producing
this year.According to experts of company coming appearance of diesel version is driven by the search for one on the U.S. market. Studies show that even stable fuel prices in the U.S. more and more Americans prefer more economical cars.
Therefore Ram 1500 will get a diesel engine. Even more interesting, however, that it will be previously planned Cummins V6. Economic reasons people are Chrysler stopped the development of the Italian company VM Motori.
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three-liter diesel will work with well-known eight-speed automatic
gearbox ZF, which Chrysler company receives designation TorqueFlite. Let ZF transmission and the ability to integrate start / stop system.
These measures are expected monster Ram 1500 to become the most economical vehicle in its class. At
this stage we do not know what the dynamic characteristics of the
diesel version of the Ram 1500, but experts judge them analogous
modification of the Grand Cherokee.