AUBURN HILLS, Mich.,
Dec. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ram
Truck today was named winner of Popular Science Magazine's 2020
Best of What's New award in the Auto category.
Each year, Popular Science reviews thousands of new products and
innovations and chooses the top 100 winners across 11 categories.
To win, a product or technology must represent a significant step
forward in its category.
"The Ram 2500 Heavy Duty is among the Best of What's New because
its unique blend of tech makes it tough yet sophisticated," said
Joe Brown, Editor-in-Chief of
Popular Science. "That's a tough balance to strike, especially in a
field crowded with so much innovation."
For 2020, Ram Heavy Duty offers a towing capacity of 35,100
pounds and a payload capacity of 7,680 pounds. The Ram Heavy Duty
also sets benchmarks in comfort, luxury materials, innovation and
technology extending well past any competitive offerings. Ram Truck
customers with the Uconnect 12-inch touchscreen also enjoy another
industry-first feature in SiriusXM's new "Personalized Stations
Powered by Pandora," which deliver a combination of rich music
curation and industry-leading personalization not found in any
other audio entertainment service.
About Best of What's New
Each year, the editors of Popular Science review
thousands of products in search of the top 100 tech innovations of
the year — breakthrough products and technologies that represent a
significant leap in their categories. The winners, the Best of
What's New, are awarded inclusion in the much anticipated December
issue of Popular Science, the most widely read issue of the
year since the debut of Best of What's New in 1988. Best of What's
New awards are presented to 100 new products and technologies in 11
categories: Automotive, Aerospace, Engineering, Entertainment,
Gadgets, General Innovation, Security, Software, Home, Health and
Recreation.
About Ram Heavy Duty
The Ram Heavy Duty blends extreme performance and towing capability
with the segment's most refinement and operator comfort features.
The 2020 Ram Heavy Duty offers a towing capacity of 35,100 pounds
and a payload capacity of 7,680 pounds. Driving it all, the pickup
segments first 1,000 lb.-ft. of torque engine; the Cummins I-6
Turbo Diesel. The new Ram Heavy Duty also sets benchmarks in
comfort, luxury materials, innovation and technology extending well
past any competitive offerings. Class-leading ride and handling is
accomplished via a class-exclusive link-coil rear (2500) suspension
system with optional rear air suspension (2500 and 3500). Giving
maximum effort all day, every day with confidence, the Ram Heavy
Duty line of pickup trucks steps forward with the full force of
modern capability.
About Ram Truck Brand
In 2009, the Ram Truck brand launched as a stand-alone
division, focused on meeting the demands of truck buyers and
delivering benchmark-quality vehicles. With a full lineup of
trucks, the Ram 1500, 2500/3500 Heavy Duty,
3500/4500/5500 Chassis Cab, ProMaster and ProMaster City,
the Ram brand builds trucks that get the hard work done
and families where they need to go.
Ram continues to outperform the competition and sets the
benchmarks for:
- Segment first 1,000 lb.-ft of torque with Cummins Turbo
Diesel
- Towing capacity of 35,100 lbs. with Ram 3500
- Payload of 7,680 lbs. with Ram 3500
- Most luxurious: Ram Limited with real wood, real leather and
12-inch Uconnect touchscreen
- Best ride and handling with exclusive link coil rear and
auto-level air suspensions
- Most interior space with Ram Mega Cab
- Most capable full-size off-road pickup – Ram Power Wagon
- Most-awarded light-duty truck in America
- Highest owner loyalty of any half-ton pickup
- Over the last 30 years, Ram has the highest percentage of
pickups still on the road
Ram is part of the portfolio of brands offered by global
automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. For more information regarding
FCA (NYSE: FCAU/ MTA: FCA), please
visit www.fcagroup.com.
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