Y'know, you almost need a program to keep up with the silliness. Last August I reported on the pickup truck wars, when Dodge brought out its heavy-duty truck at 650 lb-ft, and then Ford came out with 735 lb-ft, and then Chevrolet trumped them both with 765.
So Ford went back to the drawing board, recalibrated the engine module, and came up with eight hundred gut-bustin' foot-pounds of torque.
Well, Dodge -- now properly called Ram Truck -- went back to its drawing board and instructed its engineers to get with the program. So now, the Ram Heavy-Duty also puts out eight hundred foot-pounds of torque. And that isn't enough on its own, obviously, so now it can also tow up to 22,700 pounds.
Twenty-two thousand and seven hundred pounds. That's the equivalent of towing more than five Dodge Grand Caravans. Should you, for whatever reason, ever feel the need to tow five Dodge Grand Caravans.
The "upfitted" 800-lb-ft Ram Heavy Duty Diesel will bear a crest on the tailgate that reads, "High Output Cummins," just so the world knows what kind of a man you are.
Frankly, I think a picture of a measuring tape would be far more appropriate ...
