Photo: kelsonik / Instagram
Not long ago, Ram Trucks responded to Ford Motor Company's recent mid-cycle upgrade of the 2024 F-150 with its own refresh of the 2025 Ram 1500 series. But the changes here run a lot deeper.
At the surface level, both the F-150 and Ram 1500 are subtle updates compared to their respective predecessors. However, Mopar fans will be delighted, thrilled, and possibly saddened by the numerous changes featured 'under the skin.' More precisely, the exterior got discreetly upgraded. But the rest is almost all-new.
The cockpit features a new, fully digital instrument cluster, a larger central touchscreen, a first-ever passenger screen, plus a digital rearview mirror and HUD. A brand-new Tungsten grade sits atop the entire trim family and is basically Ram's response to GMC's Denali and Toyota's Capstone flagships. The suspension is a standard or optional adjustable air setup, and one of the new versions even comes with an independent rear but with higher payload and towing ratings!
Under the hood, the base engine is the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 with eTorque mild-hybrid assistance, but the Hemi V8 is now gone, replaced by the new inline-six turbo Hurricane family consisting of two 3.0-liter flavors – 420 hp and H/O with no less than 540 hp. The good news is both are more powerful than the 5.7-liter V8, and the bad news is that an upcoming off-road RHO king will have to settle for 'just' that 540 hp instead of 702 hp like the 6.2-liter supercharged V8 TRX.
However, one new model will come close and have almost magical all-rounder capabilities. That would be the revival of Dodge's Ramcharger nameplate into the fresh 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger. It's a 663-hp model striving to include the best of all worlds: it has dual electric drive modules for eAWD, a 92-kWh battery rechargeable at up to 145 kW, fancy air suspension and independent rear axle, great towing and payload capacities (14,000 and 2,625 pounds, respectively), plus a range extender feature.
Simply put, there's no more range anxiety because a 3.6-liter V6 and a generator refill the battery whenever the need arises. Plus, it also looks a bit different from the rest of the 1500 family – it has slightly modified front headlights and grille, as well as cooler LED taillights to identify it as a member of the EV lifestyle alongside the fully electric Ram 1500 REV. Alas, things can be improved, still. Or, according to the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, at least one thing.
Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as kelsonik on social media, thinks now is the right CGI time to fiddle with the newly launched 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger, and his immediate course of digital action was to make the darn alloy wheels a bit larger and thus alter the dimensional perspective of the whole vehicle. I'd have dared say it's almost perfect – but then I saw the pixel master also made the gray trim darker, which is kind of making it look cheaper because of the big side mirrors.
Now, what do you think – should automakers start delivering their full-size trucks and SUVs with slightly larger wheels to make them proportional to the rest of the body or leave them as they are and keep showcasing their vehicles as if they're riding on toy wheels? Also, do you think the new 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger is the jack of all trades or the master of none?
The cockpit features a new, fully digital instrument cluster, a larger central touchscreen, a first-ever passenger screen, plus a digital rearview mirror and HUD. A brand-new Tungsten grade sits atop the entire trim family and is basically Ram's response to GMC's Denali and Toyota's Capstone flagships. The suspension is a standard or optional adjustable air setup, and one of the new versions even comes with an independent rear but with higher payload and towing ratings!
Under the hood, the base engine is the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 with eTorque mild-hybrid assistance, but the Hemi V8 is now gone, replaced by the new inline-six turbo Hurricane family consisting of two 3.0-liter flavors – 420 hp and H/O with no less than 540 hp. The good news is both are more powerful than the 5.7-liter V8, and the bad news is that an upcoming off-road RHO king will have to settle for 'just' that 540 hp instead of 702 hp like the 6.2-liter supercharged V8 TRX.
However, one new model will come close and have almost magical all-rounder capabilities. That would be the revival of Dodge's Ramcharger nameplate into the fresh 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger. It's a 663-hp model striving to include the best of all worlds: it has dual electric drive modules for eAWD, a 92-kWh battery rechargeable at up to 145 kW, fancy air suspension and independent rear axle, great towing and payload capacities (14,000 and 2,625 pounds, respectively), plus a range extender feature.
Simply put, there's no more range anxiety because a 3.6-liter V6 and a generator refill the battery whenever the need arises. Plus, it also looks a bit different from the rest of the 1500 family – it has slightly modified front headlights and grille, as well as cooler LED taillights to identify it as a member of the EV lifestyle alongside the fully electric Ram 1500 REV. Alas, things can be improved, still. Or, according to the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, at least one thing.
Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as kelsonik on social media, thinks now is the right CGI time to fiddle with the newly launched 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger, and his immediate course of digital action was to make the darn alloy wheels a bit larger and thus alter the dimensional perspective of the whole vehicle. I'd have dared say it's almost perfect – but then I saw the pixel master also made the gray trim darker, which is kind of making it look cheaper because of the big side mirrors.
Now, what do you think – should automakers start delivering their full-size trucks and SUVs with slightly larger wheels to make them proportional to the rest of the body or leave them as they are and keep showcasing their vehicles as if they're riding on toy wheels? Also, do you think the new 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger is the jack of all trades or the master of none?
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