This Ram’s 540-hp twin-turbo six-cylinder engine yields some impressive results.
Laramie Standard Output pickup truck. If you didn’t, the gist is it impressed us a fair amount in a straight line and less so in our braking and handling tests. We also tested a 2025 Ram with the carryover Pentastar V-6; it was, uh,—the truck brand has binned the Hemi V-8 and replaced it with a choice of two Hurricane 3.0-liter twin-turbo inline-six engines.
By comparison, the 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R is the quickest by virtue of reaching 60 mph in a serious-sports-car-like 3.7 seconds and dispatching the quarter mile in 12.1 seconds at 111.8 mph. But the Ram 1500 Tungsten is the quickest six-cylinder truck we’ve ever tested, followed by the new 2025 Ram Tradesman Crew Cab with the standard-output engine. The latter posted a 4.8-second 0–60 time and 13.5 seconds in the quarter mile at 100.9 mph.
Beyond the numbers, there’s an emotional component to the whole experience, as well. As one of our drivers exclaimed, “I was not expecting that much thrill launching this big pickup!” Hold the gas pedal until the turbo spools up and drop the brake at about 3,200 rpm, and the Tungsten justAs much fun as we had performing straight-line blasts in the 2025 Ram 1500 Tungsten High Output, its story converged with the Ram 1500 Laramie when it came to braking .
The 2025 Ram 1500 Tungsten likewise aped the Laramie’s skidpad and figure-eight results. On the skidpad, it returned a best average lateral acceleration figure of 0.76 g—once again improbably identical to the Laramie’s. It did, however, just shade it on our figure-eight course, posting its quickest lap of 27.5 seconds at an average of 0.64 g versus 27.7 and 0.62.
On the upside, the Tungsten felt better doing all this than the Laramie did. Of the Laramie’s figure-eight performance, we said: “Unfortunately, the long-travel brake pedal was difficult to modulate around our track layout. Just as irritating, the Ram seems to hold onto its ABS intervention even after you release the brake pedal. There’s also a tremendous amount of understeer, and the transmission—after being so pleasant on the street—would not hold a gear.
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