The 2019 Ram 1500 Limited Is a $65,000 Ultra-Luxury Truck

this is a 2019 RAM 1500 limited and it is the newest full-size pickup truck on the market it's also the most luxurious this one has a sticker price of a shade over $65,000 which is an enormous amount of money for a truck that isn't a heavy duty or Super Duty model today I'm going to take you on a tour of it I've borrowed this Ram 1500 from a ram of ontario here in Orange County California where they have a wide selection of new Rams and all sorts of different colors and trim levels and body styles but I chose this one because it's the mack daddy the top-end version the one that people are really excited about in places where they wear cowboy hats to the grocery store and just what makes it so special well to start this is a ram so that means big power this truck has the optional 5.7 liter Hemi v8 which makes 395 horsepower and 410 pound-feet of torque and the right configuration that powertrain in this truck can pull almost 13,000 pounds which is massive but it's not just about muscle this truck also has a lot of luxury features being that it's the limited model for instance it has air suspension as if it were Sadie's Benz or a Range Rover and there's a lot of other luxury features and gadgets inside all that stuff leads to that sticker price of over $65,000 so today I'm going to take you on a tour of the new RAM and I'm gonna show you all of its interesting quirks and cool features and then I'm going to get it out on the road and drive it and then I'm going to give it a dug score now I'm gonna start the Cork's and features on the inside of the new Rams limited where you climb inside and you're immediately greeted by some very upscale trim you'll see it on the doors the center console also on the dashboard if you look closely what you'll see is that this trim is designed to mimic stitching even though it is it stitched itself but it is a very nice look it almost looks like a chalkboard and it also feels nice to touch now next up even though that trim is designed to mimic stitching there's also a lot of actual stitching in this truck and there are some rather unusual designs on the door panel you can see there's this odd little decorative stitching design just kind of interesting but there's also another one on the center console around the word limited there's this whole decorative design stitched into the console it's the same story in back on the rear door panel there is this stitching decorative design just like in the front and on the back of the front seats there is another decorative piece stitched in there so the rear passengers can enjoy their view of the stitching the stitching goes so far that even the grab handles are leather wrapped and hand-stitched that's what you get when you buy the top-end R and usually it's just a plastic piece you grab on do to get in but in this vehicle it's an opportunity for leather and next up I really love the floor mats in the ramp limited you see it's a truck so they have to give you rubber floor mats in case you're wearing work boots and trekking mud inside but it's a luxury truck so they also have to give you nice carpeting so they figure well what do we do I don't know and they decide well to do both so the floor mats in this truck are rubber but the center part is nice carpeting in order to accentuate the fact that it's both a luxury truck and a work truck now next up we move on to the center console which is absolutely massive if you open it up and you look inside you'll see there's some outlines of pickup trucks what exactly is that well it's the last four generations of the RAM outlined so that if you want to look at the RAM and see its history all you have to do is open up your center console and there's the history of the RAM going back like 40 years it's a weird feature I'm not exactly sure why it's there but it is kind of a funny little Easter Egg that most people probably won't notice unless you've seen this video and it's the same story with the lid of the center console on the inside of the underside of the lid you open it up and you'll well a lot in the upper right you have trigonometry ratios for sine cosine and tangent plus the Pythagorean theorem then there's a protractor for measuring angles and a ruler this is in your pick ups center console mind you followed by a standard two metric wrench conversion chart in the lower right in a fraction to decimal conversion chart right above a big Ram logo and the words designed in Auburn Hills Michigan it's a lot of information in an unlikely place and speaking of the brand logo let's move on to the steering wheel where you will see that the middle the steering of course has the RAM logo on it although it looks different from RAM logos in the past this one appears to be more I don't know digital or modernized it looks like a new face for the RAM logo it's worth noting one logo you won't see on this truck is the Dodge logo for the last I don't know seven eight years Chrysler has been trying to convince people that Dodge and RAM are now different this is technically only called the RAM 1500 and there's no longer a truck called the Dodge Ram that's gone Ram according to Chrysler is no longer the model name it's now the brand name it's supposed to be the truck brand in the Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram portfolio and so technically this truck is not the Dodge Ram anymore it is the RAM 1500 makes you move on to the gauge cluster in this vehicle which is rather intense now when you turn it on it says limited right under the word Ram so you know you've got to the most expensive Ram you didn't skimp and get some chintzy lesser version now take a look around that gauge classroom you see there is really a lot going on you have the main dials that show the tachometer and the speedometer and then they're sort of like connected in this cool way to the dalles that show the temperature and the fuel gauge it looks really cool but there's also a screen in the middle and so it really ends up being pretty busy in there and another interesting item in the gauge cluster if you go to vehicle settings in school through a few menus you can see the engines hours if you'd prefer to measure the engines usage and where in hours rather than miles as you can see this one has been idle for 3 hours and moving for 3 hours and maybe that's more useful to someone than how many miles it's gone now next up I mentioned this truck has air suspension and it deed it does and not only does that prove the trucks ride when you're going over bumps it makes it much smoother and softer but it means that you can set the truck to various different rights in fact you have five different ride height objects now the interesting thing is ram has named them in rather unusual ways it's not just pi and medium and low instead if you put in the highest possible setting that's called the maximum ground clearance air suspension makes sense you put it in the next setting it's called increased ground clearance air suspension increased over normal the middle one is rather unusual that's called suitable for most situations air suspension not normal not standard but which which air suspension even I mean suitable for most situations okay you're good then for most situations the next one down just below the middle setting is called improved aerodynamics and this is maybe the most interesting of the settings when you're driving along and suitable for most situations you just set it in that it cruise along and everything's fine but you get on the highway and you get up to a certain speed the truck will automatically lower itself one setting into the aerodynamic suspension setting for better fuel economy this is a pickup truck that automatically lowers itself at a certain speed for better fuel economy we're in a very different world of pickup drugs from boost a few years ago finally the lowest suspension setting at the very bottom is called lowered for entry and exit air suspension and you can lower it for easier entry or exit and you don't have to be in the truck to do that press this little button on the bottom left of the key fob and the truck will automatically lower to make it easier for you to climb inside [Music] next up we move on to a couple of other interesting items in this interim let's start with the glove boxes now you have a regular glove box in the normal place but if you look above that glove box and over to the left you'll see there's a button you push that and it opens an upper glove box so in this truck you have dual glove boxes just in case you simply have too many gloves to put into one another interesting item in this vehicle now if you're towing and you're going down a hill you probably want to go into a lower gear to take some of the stress off your brakes now in old trucks you would put in a clutch and shift into a lower gear with the gear lever in this thing you just tap a little minus button on the steering wheel if you've ever been looking for a good example of how trucks have gotten more luxurious and user-friendly over the years there's all this stuff in the interior but that may just be the best example possible next up we move back to the center console for another interesting item at the very furthest forward part of the center console you can see there are two little pockets well that is for cellphone holding the one on the left is actually a wireless charger you can just drop your phone in there and it will wirelessly charge the one on the right is just for storage but regardless of whether you're storing or charging it's a good place to put your phone while you're driving so it's on some flat surface so it flies around if you have to slam on the brakes quickly now next up we move on to the ceiling but by the mirror there are a couple of interesting items up here there are a lot of buttons that opens stuff I'm gonna start with this button that says open we're closed you push that in the rear window opens right up and a lot of older pickups it's a manual sliding thing and this thing it's automatic the three buttons to the left control the Sun roof this is a pickup truck with a panoramic sunroof there are not too many pickup trucks that have that but the craziest button up there is the one at the very back it's a logo of a pickup with the tailgate down and yes if you push it the tailgate automatically goes down I know I'm gonna get emails from people that say back in my day for a pickup truck you pulled it on the tailgate in to grab it and yank it down was a man's job well now you can just push a button and it comes right down times have changed now next up below the giant screen in the middle you can see over on the right there are two switches to turn off the parking sensors now interestingly in this vehicle you can turn them off individually the rear and the front you can turn them off separately from each other this is actually a really good idea because if you're towing a trailer and you have the rear parking sensors on every time you backup it'll think you're about to hit your trailer and it'll beep like crazy so you couldn't shut off the rear and keep the front ones on because they're still useful and since I've now mentioned the giant screen I suppose we must talk about it this is a 12 inch touchscreen that's in the higher-end versions of the new 2019 Ram it is absolutely massive I think only Tesla in this industry has a bigger screen maybe the volvo screen is about the same size but it's huge it's responsive to your touch and it does just about everything the screen hosts you connect which is what Chrysler calls its infotainment system and the previous version was really good but this version is even better than that it remains one of the absolute best infotainment systems in the industry and this screen is a great way to display it now as you might expect there are a couple of interesting items with the screen I'm going to start with the screen themes if you go into themes you can see there are four different options you have Ram 1500 long horn black long horn brown and limited now why would I a limited owner want anything other than limited the answer is I wouldn't I would never stoop to the level of those other screen themes next up another quirk of the infotainment system you have the ability in this car to customize units for example you can change between miles and kilometers gallons and leaders that's not all that uncommon most vehicles have that the interesting thing about this one is when you go in to customize speed if you click on it it then says below that speed so it says speed and speed but if you're still confused you can press the little eye on the right for information and the information it provides you is the word speed so speed speed speed I hope you understand what that means next up in the infotainment system a cool feature this car has a blind spot monitor like most high-end cars lets you know if there's someone in your blind spot so you don't accidentally change lanes and hit them but this vehicle has trailer towing blind spot monitors you hook up a trailer and this thing will automatically detect how long the trailer is and thus sort of adjust itself to figure out where your blind spots are so we can inform you if there's a vehicle in your blind even if you're towing a trailer and your blind spot is in a different place than it normally would be because of the way that your mirrors are adjusted except another interesting quirk of the infotainment system you go into these settings menu for the brakes and you can see there's an option for brake service you click on it and asks if you want to retract the parking brake so you can perform a brake service that's because this car has an automatic electronic parking brake every time you put it in part the parking brake goes on and it clamps down on the rear brakes and so in order to retract the parking brake you have to go into the infotainment system press that it will retract and then you can change the brakes that's pretty interesting next up moving on to the navigation settings which is home to some of the infotainment systems strangest quirks I'm gonna start with points of interest and specifically ATMs if you click on ATMs it gives you a list of banks to select which one you want your ATM at and look at this list of base I believe it is comprehensive globally there have to be 200 banks on here banks in India central bank of Oklahoma everything you can possibly imagine is on this list in case you want to search for your local bank ATM the crazy part is even after all those banks it still gives you an option for other so if somehow your bank doesn't appear on that list you can still click other and get directed to other bank ATMs and it's the same story with restaurants you go into the restaurants menu in the infotainment system and you can scroll through an almost unending list of different types of food you can choose from if you want to see a nearby restaurant that serves precisely what you want interestingly Swiss is on this list what do they serve at a Swiss restaurant is it just like a normal restaurant but cleaner and everybody eats their dinner in 36 minutes precisely so they can go home and trim their hedges into an exact rectangle it makes interesting item in the navigation settings is vehicle icon you can choose how you want your vehicle to be displayed in the navigation screen you can choose between blue arrow which isn't an arrow at all red arrow which is an arrow yellow hexagon or my personal favorite Ram 1500 I don't know why anyone would choose anything else another interesting navigation setting you can choose a speed limit warning that's pretty common you can set it for like 10 over the speed limit beeps at you if you're going ten over so you no not to speed too much the weird thing about this car is you can set it for up to 20 over or you can set it for up to 20 under so I guess it'll beep at you if you're going too slowly the weird thing is you can set it all the way to like 3 miles an hour under the speed limit so if you're going 32 in a 35 it'll beep at you to let you speed up I've never seen a speed limit warning for below the speed limit before but this car has it another interesting quirk of the infotainment system in this truck if you want to dim the mirror you do it through the infotainment system it's not just a little button on the mirror you push so it's dim at night when lights are shining you actually have to go into the infotainment system press mirror dimmer and then that will dim the mirror it seems like overkill to me but what do I know now here's an even crazier one this vehicle like most full-size trucks when you open the door the running boards automatically extend so that you can step on them and get in close the door and the running boards retract back into the vehicle for extra ground clearance but here's the crazy thing if you want to extend them without opening the door you can go into the infotainment system push a little button and they automatically extend I have no idea why anyone would want to do that but if you're showing off for a friend that your truck has power running boards you have that option in the infotainment system now one other item on the screen I also like in case you're not the touchscreen type Ram also gives you some traditional buttons for items that you'll use pretty commonly for example you can still adjust the climate controls using traditional buttons on the left side close to the driver and you can turn on/off the stereo and adjust the volume using a traditional dial next to the touchscreen unfortunately Ram is still using this feature where the gear lever is a rotary dial directly next to the volume control and so you could be driving around and turned down the music and all of a sudden shift into park by mistake now I've been informed by people why you can't shift into park because you have to ever put on the brake it would never happen yeah but you can shift into neutral and that's not really all that much better when you really think about things you want to do on the interstate next I'm moving on to the back there's not much especially interesting or unusual back here but there are a couple of items worth noting one is just how roomy it is is a pickup truck the front seat is most of the way back and yet I am totally comfortable back here I have a ton of room and on the subject of comfort one other interesting thing this truck has heated rear seat it's pretty common in luxury vehicles but it also has ventilated rear seats which is not common in any luxury vehicles in fact you don't even get this on most Mercedes s-class models unless you get really high-end versions and certain rear seat option packages but you get it in the RAM 1500 limited one other interesting item in the back seat hanging from the back of the front seat is a ram leather care guide to teach you how to care for your nice leather interior the thing I like about this little leather care guide is the word limited is embossed even on this thing it's not just printed it's actually pushed into the cardboard I guess to really emphasize how limited it is next I'm moving around back the track there's a couple of interesting things back here one is on the tailgate you can see that the RAM logo is that same sort of modernized digitized Ram logo like the one you saw on the steering wheel it's very different from the RAM logos of your I'm not sure if that's interesting but anyway opening the tailgate which of course happens automatically see the other interesting thing there are bed lights in this truck as there are in most trucks but in this one they are LED and you can turn them on and off with the push of a little rubber button over on the left side of the bed in case you don't want your bed lights to be lighting up your bed anymore next up we move on to the front end which I have to admit I love it's very sleek and modernized compared to the look of the old one in fact it's this new front end styling that I think makes the RAM the best-looking full-size truck on the market right now take a look for instance at the turn signal when it's on this is not like old-school halogen truck turn signals this looks like a sleek kind of sporty car instead it's a cool look now there are a couple of interesting things up front beyond just the styling one is they've gotten rid of the old Ram cross hairs grille that all the old Ram pickups used to have you can see that is completely gone in favor of this new grille which is kind of busy and a little bit strange looking the other interesting thing is the headlights now when you look at these headlights these are ill be headlights back there by LED low beams and high beams when you take a close look at him it says dynamic AFS buy LED and it gives the exact degrees of inboard and outboard rotation in the headlights once again if you needed any proof that pickup trucks are different than they were 15 or 20 years ago there you go dynamic EFS buy led so those are the quirks and features of the new Ram 1500 and now it's time to get it out on the road and see what it's like to drive a $65,000 luxury pickup truck alright driving the Ram 1500 the first thing you realized you're in this is it's pretty big but unless you're used to driving trucks in which case it's totally normal but I'm not boy the first impression is it's really smooth the transmission is really really really smooth just shifting in first second third right there acceleration is good obviously but it's not insane I they said that isn't really the point of this vehicle still to v8 under there so you got enough power for whatever you need to do the transmission is just so smooth you can barely feel the ships also that I think that contributes to it not feeling as fast it's they've sort of tuned it more for smoothness than for performance but I think that's probably what most buyers of this vehicle will want the other thing is the ride is really nice this is the kind of thing you could just kill miles and just sit here and live here just not care the lane line bumps always a great indication to me of how good the suspension is in my car you feel every lane line thought my mg and it's just tiresome I mean this thing you can barely feel them air suspension longevity there's obviously a concern who knows how long it's gonna last but well you still have this thing under warranty to buying it new it's what you want it so nice truthfully it feels like a big luxury SUV that's what it feels like when you're driving it like a like a really nice Durango or a really nice whatever GL or something like that not quite on that level but not that far off all the materials are so nice you look around everything is surprisingly good for a pickup truck all the noise is pretty much drowned out you really don't hear all that much you do hear the engine a little bit under acceleration but that's kind of cool you got the Hemi you got it for a reason but mostly you just don't hear anything I mean this is just a serene place which is hard to imagine saying about a pickup truck it really really wasn't that long ago that the nicest trucks were like oh he's got leather in a truck oh they got wood trim I mean that was 15 years ago and then the Denalis kind of started coming up and everybody started doing it and now here we are driving a 65 thousand on a truck and it it's almost seems like the perfect combination of things it's like a pickup truck if you need a haul or tow but it's also a luxury car and it's a family car because it's huge back there I mean this is an s-class the materials aren't that nice but it's also nor near that expensive but it's nice and it's got a ton of tech I didn't really cover that much with but it's got all the latest safety tech it'll it'll stop automatically if you're about to hit something and as radar cruise control auto wipers etc etc even stop if you're in Reverse and you're gonna hit something there's a sensors back there and it'll break automatically if you're in Reverse for some reason the turn signal stock doesn't come out far enough so you have to kind of reach in to grab it I mean I mean it's pretty much what you expect from from a real if it's pretty much what you expect if you're gonna pay sixty five grand for a truck at that point you want it to also be a luxury vehicle you want to be as quiet as one as comfortable as one and as well-equipped as one and that's exactly what this is I mean you get a panoramic roof you get cooled rear seats you get it recognizes the speed limit the road you're on heated steering wheel radar cruise but what else do you I mean this is everything and so that's the 2019 Ram 1500 limited the old Ram was fine but it wasn't really built all that well and the design seemed like it had been around for ages the new Ram is a totally different truck it's luxurious to drive it's nice and handsome to look at and it's loaded with all of the latest modern technology and gadgets I love the Ford f-150 but this is the new best full-size pickup truck on the market and it's a pretty damn good luxury car too and now it's time to give it a dug score starting with the weekend categories and styling the Ram 1500 is nice but it's no beautiful sports car it gets a 5 out of 10 acceleration is surprisingly strong around six point four seconds zero to 16 against a three out of ten handling is typical to pick up this truck is all about comfort and it's quite large so the center of gravity isn't very low it's not exactly tight or precise and it gets a 2 out of 10 fun factor 2 isn't really the point of this truck and it gets a 1 out of 10 as for cool factor it depends where you are but the basic gist is that it's pretty cool to have a top-end truck like this but otherwise it pretty much just blends in and it gets a 3 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 14 out of 50 next up for the daily categories starting with features and this truck is surprisingly well equipped for a pickup it gets a 7 out of 10 Comfort is excellent just shy of range rover territory and it gets a 7 out of 10 quality is good the materials are surprisingly nice but of course shoppers will be a little leery of christ' the reliability with good reason so we'll see how that goes for now it gets a 6 out of 10 practicality is strong with a huge back seat and a big bed and back and it gets an 8 out of 10 finally there's value this truck is an amazing combination of a heavy duty hauler a high-tech car on a luxury vehicle so it's a great value but with that said it's still a $65,000 truck so it's not gonna get an ultra-high score here and indeed he gets a seven out of ten for a total daily score of 35 out of 50 add it up in the Doug score is 49 out of 100 and here's how it ranks against some other big pickups I've reviewed this thing isn't that different league than the Nissan Titan it's far better and it's a bit better than the f250 Platinum unless you need that trucks heavy duty towing or hauling capabilities but the RAM can't reach the Raptor which scores impressively well in daily and weekend categories so the raptor has a hefty price premium over the RAM

Channel: Doug DeMuro

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Rating: 4.7460337 out of 5

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Length: 24min 36sec (1476 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 17 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Michelanvalo]

I'm eating lunch and when Doug flipped the undercover of the center console with all the math and geometry stuff on it I pulled a movie thing and just sat here with my fork half way to face with my mouth open staring at the video.

I can't believe what I just watched.

[u/theramennoodle]

This is the first car I've seen with built in USB-C ports and that's really cool!

[u/Chaise91]

RAM of Ontario Orange County California

Something seems fishy

[u/manyaboom]

If you need to look up the Pythagorean theorem for a job, chances are you are under qualified for the math you are about to perform.

[u/rsmtirish]

It only took Doug two years to have get a non-Windows Movie Maker iMovie intro!

[u/megasaurass]

The different suspension height names are hilarious. Almost seems like someone is just having fun with their job.

[u/LeftyIsGay]

That stitching on the center armrest looks a lot like a tramp stamp....

[u/FamousBump3]

/u/doug-demuro do you have any plans to review the Tundra or the Silverado? Just wondering since that would pretty much complete the full size market

[u/LeftyIsGay]

Digging the new intro Doug