2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel Reliable Diesel Truck?

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2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel –  In America the half-ton truck segment continues to be the most popular and a most lucrative between the big three Ford GM and FCA sales. They have reached nearly three million units every year. If you’re looking in the media for news on the half-ton segment chances are? you’re gonna find a plethora of information on electric trucks and how they’re coming in the next two to three years.

2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel

2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel

What You Have to Get From 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel

As you can expect the 2020 version looks the same as the 2019 version that you should know that this one here is the fully maxed out limited grade. So, this is the most expensive and most luxurious 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel truck you can buy it also has an option package called the black appearance package which is new for 2020. It’s about four grand extra and you can only pick it in this shade of black.

We were really hoping that 2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel would offer it in like white or red to show. The contrast basically the black appearance package blacks out the grille it gives you this unique grille. It colors and paints everything it gives you these black 22-inch wheels. You’re gonna find on the Laramie longhorn on every 2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel will come with full LED headlights. But these are the matrix design LEDs you also get LED fog lights down there you have nicely integrated parking sensors.

The tow hooks as well this is a pretty badass looking truck. In our opinion, the GMC Sierra looks better but this does look better than the f-150 with the black package. We really like the way this looks; we just wish that 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel would offer it in a white or red exterior color. Moving around the side you can see this is a big truck this is technically the shorter bed version.

This is offered obviously in like a crew cab regular. Cab configuration extended cab this one here has the shorter five-and-a-half-foot bed. It’s around 233 inches long and it’s will base around one hundred and forty-four and a half inches long. This is about the same size as the Chevy and the Ford and the GMC trucks the wheels. On this particular one here probably my favorite feature about the truck. It’s got 22-inch wheels riding on massive 285 45 with tires.

2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel Interior

2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel Interior

Move to this interior, as you can see at a glance this interior will surely looks incredible. These newer half-ton trucks the 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel still has the largest infotainment system. In the business at 12 inches it still has an interior that is just so luxurious and its furnishings. It’s just trimmed so incredibly well and this limited trim really takes it up to the next level. So finally, we get into the interior of the RAM 1500 limited and this is actually the first time that we’ve been in the limited trim.

When you start examining things there’s actually a fairly good amount of tech in there. That is fairly easy to understand as well this 12-inch tablet is optional. 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel says that they basically build or sell as many of these as they can build. It’s a very high demand option an 8.4-inch screen is probably what you’re mostly gonna find but this is the one where it goes in a portrait style.

It’s 12 inches this is still the largest display that you’re gonna find in the industry. This car also will pair with Apple CarPlay name Dorado is included it looks very nice. This is a very high-quality looking resolution and the funny thing about anything about this infotainment system is it’s about to be replaced.

We also love this dark colored Matt finished wood grain with the pink striping in hair it just looks very upscale. You can see there’s a nice little storage area over there. The door panels also have the same leather stitching there’s a metal speaker covers in there, that a nineteenth speaker Harman Kardon sound which is for me probably the best sounding stereo in the half-ton segment which is gonna cost you a pretty penny.

Specification

The diesel model has been gone for a couple years since this new one came out. It was the 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel that reignited the flame two diesels and a half ton lineup and even though electric trucks are what people are talking about. However, the modern diesel is just so much quieter and more refined.

This engine of course it’s still built in Italy. It’s a Fiat engine and it still displaces 3 liters it has a turbocharger. Of course, helping it build more power and it makes about 20 more horsepower. This year now producing 260 horsepower however torque is up about sixty-pound feet.

2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel Specification

2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel Specification

It makes four hundred and eighty pound-feet of torque and this has the most torque in the diesel segment. The half-ton diesel second eyes you guys know maybe only f-150 and GM just introduced it in this Silverado. All those two the Chevy and GMC has an inline six this is still a V6 configuration now. One thing about the diesel of 2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel is you can get the diesel engine in all the trims.

Some of the other manufacturers will limit you on the trim lines. So, 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel kind of doesn’t do that you can get it on all the different versions and the RAM eco diesel tows the most in terms of the rest of the segment.

This tow a maximum of twelve thousand five hundred and sixty pounds. That’s roughly a thousand at three thousand pounds more than the competition. And RAM says you can haul about two thousand pounds in the bed so this has the most towing and payload capabilities in the segment. It all goes out through an 8-speed automatic transmission, that’s built by ZF. Although the 2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel has excellent telling its transmission is down about two gears compared to the Ford and the GM vehicles.

Which have a ten-speed transmission now fuel economy that’s always the big news with a 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel  says this truck with two-wheel drive look up to 32 mpg on the highway. The four-wheel-drive version will get 21 in the city and 29 on the highway. That’s the best in class for the highway rating which is pretty good numbers considering how big this truck is and it weighs around fifty-seven hundred pounds.

2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel Price

2020 RAM 1500 Limited Ecodiesel Price

2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel Price

The big problem that we have with the 2020 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel has to do with the pricing, because this isn’t cheap. If you guys want to have the most technology and the most luxury in this segment? The eco diesel powertrain cost about five thousand dollars more versus the base V6 that’s a hefty charge. It’s about 2 grands more than what the other manufacturers are going to charge you for their diesel power. And of course, this limited grade starts at around $56,000.

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