I know what I get Next time Around Hemi OR CTD.

What would you do.

I honestly for the life of me cant understand why they'd even offer a fullsize truck like the Ram with a V6. It doesnt get better mileage, and since you are using it for a truck, why wouldnt you want the added power and torque?

It makes sense to offer an economy model truck, that I do understand....but offering a V6 that gets 16mpg and a V8 that gets 15mpg....doesnt make any sense to me.

The only way to buy a truck is a V8 or a Diesel....and in my opinion.....diesel only....

i too was sucked into the thinking that the V6 would have better MPG then the larger V8 or Hemi. Come to find out from various Dodge owners on this site that the V8 not only gets the same or better MPG but also provides more power and towing capacity. I love my V6 but i think next time i am going to step up to the V8. Don't get me wrong, i drive the truck to work on paved roads about 99% of the time but for that 1% fun time which i am off road or pulling the boat, the V8 seems to be a better choice then the V6.

eh...i would. the truck cost 15k new.

if i want speed, i have cars. only reason i'd get a bigass truck is to tow ****...but i don't, and frankly, i hate the hemi. i was in a wheelchair when i got the truck, and that's why i got the truck i did.

IMO the 3.7 isn't a bad truck so much as it is too underpowered....I like the fact that I could buy a truck for 15,000 thats full size but I hate the lack of power it does come with stock. I think if I was to choose something, I'd probably go with the CTD 2500 series, primarily because they seem to get really good mileage as well as power. Plus, with biodiesel and these new other types of fuels coming out, the diesel engine seems to make the most sense...

^^ agreed. i voted ctd as well.

I know it wasn't really directed towards me. But I would buy this truck again, because I don't need the hemi power, I would be dead. And the 4.7 I got was only 15k with 20k mile on it. 2 years old. I couldn't find another truck like it for the money any where.

ORIGINAL: DevilsReject

I honestly for the life of me cant understand why they'd even offer a fullsize truck like the Ram with a V6. It doesnt get better mileage, and since you are using it for a truck, why wouldnt you want the added power and torque?

It makes sense to offer an economy model truck, that I do understand....but offering a V6 that gets 16mpg and a V8 that gets 15mpg....doesnt make any sense to me.

The only way to buy a truck is a V8 or a Diesel....and in my opinion.....diesel only....



not to "under complicate it" 2500+ cummins only, 1500 hemi only, dakota 4.7 only.... if they just did that, get rid of the 3.7, more hemis would be sold and they could sink more money into R&D on getting better mpg out of it. the hemi cant handle a 3/4 or 1 ton truck.

ORIGINAL: XxSilentHawk99xX

I like the fact that I could buy a truck for 15,000 thats full size but I hate the lack of power it does come with stock.


uh come to texas, every year i see dodge selling a quad cab 4.7 for 16,999

Well hold the boat! You didnt specify! Ha it should be yes or no, No I wouldnt buy a v6 again. But giving me all those options, I mean is money an issue. No? Then I'm SO getting that SRT! Show stupid b****es a truck can be fast! Money is an issue, oh, I guess ya ill get the hemi.

I willl say this 1500 Dodge is a nice truck the 3.7 is a good motor just not for a full size truck I have a Q-Cab it needs more motor to push it around the 3.7 should never been offfered in this truck it just to much for it.

I was like a lot of others when purchasing this truck looking at the MPG Sticker the 23 MPG made me buy this truck to bad I only gotten that kind of MPG once I knew better than get the 3.7 but it was a good idea at the time.

Like I said before my last truck before this one gotten between 8 to 10 MPG down hill with the wind behide you, thats why I traded in for this truck between payments and gas bill it was a good idea at the time the 17 to 18 MPG is nicer but if I could do it again it would not be the 3.7.

Well, if I lived in Texas, then I may have gotten a better deal. But out in Socal, everyone is switching to godd*** Toyota Prius's and other lame hybrids. I wish I would have done a little more research before I picked up the v6 model....but thats the sacrifice I get.

^^ yea, should have researched more too. I jsut knew my truck was cheap, and i grabbed it right then and there. dealer was giving 4500 cash back and 1.9 apr, so i went for it. like i said, i was in a wheelchair and needed a truck, badly. my maxima just wasn't cutting it. Now i am able to drive the maxima (cause, i'm walking...rather well), and when i need the power, that's what the maximas for. My truck is seriously a truck. We have like 3 of our own buildings, and our boss has like 25 - looking at my truck on the outside, doesn't exactly represent how tore up my bed is...ugh. i need to line that bitch with something.

ORIGINAL: marv02

I willl say this 1500 Dodge is a nice truck the 3.7 is a good motor just not for a full size truck I have a Q-Cab it needs more motor to push it around the 3.7 should never been offfered in this truck it just to much for it.

I was like a lot of others when purchasing this truck looking at the MPG Sticker the 23 MPG made me buy this truck to bad I only gotten that kind of MPG once I knew better than get the 3.7 but it was a good idea at the time.

Like I said before my last truck before this one gotten between 8 to 10 MPG down hill with the wind behide you, thats why I traded in for this truck between payments and gas bill it was a good idea at the time the 17 to 18 MPG is nicer but if I could do it again it would not be the 3.7.



This is EXACTLY why I bought my new Ram also..............and also why I wouldn't buy another V6 Ram.

I had a 2002 Ram 1500 QC 4X4 SLT with the 5.9L(360 cu in) engine. I got about 11.5 MPG City and 15 - 15.5 MPG Highway with a tailwind and those MPG figures are WITHOUT towing,no jack rabbit starts, and NEVER going over 70 mph on the highway.

So getting 16 MPG City and 23 MPG Highway seemed sooo much better.

I made a hasty decision based on MPG numbers and low monthly payments (for a truck), it's a great truck and I'll live with it, but I wouldn't buy another V6 full size Ram ever again.

When I purchased Mine Truck they had Employee Pricing going on I gotten $9000.00 off mine this also made me buy A Dodge Truck I was looking on getting anouther Ford at the Time But the Dodge had the Killer deal at the time.

Like I said before when it's time to get rid of this truck we will see who has the Killer deal agian but one thing I do know it be a Dodge or a Ford only Yea Ford I still like Fords NO GM truck's.

But with any luck they will start offering a diesel motor in the 1/2 ton trucks when I trade this truck in, I realy don't need a 3/4 or 1 Ton truck for every day driving around I all ready have a 3/4 ton V-10 2001 Dodge excab truck for that but it suck fuel like don't need anouther one of those plus 1/2 ton's have a better ride to them for everday driving around still have a littleRuff rideto them but not like a heavy duty truck.


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^^ yea, should have researched more too. I jsut knew my truck was cheap, and i grabbed it right then and there. dealer was giving 4500 cash back and 1.9 apr, so i went for it. like i said, i was in a wheelchair and needed a truck, badly. my maxima just wasn't cutting it. Now i am able to drive the maxima (cause, i'm walking...rather well), and when i need the power, that's what the maximas for. My truck is seriously a truck. We have like 3 of our own buildings, and our boss has like 25 - looking at my truck on the outside, doesn't exactly represent how tore up my bed is...ugh. i need to line that bitch with something.

good poll...interestn to see wat u guys think...

i didnt buy it and as a "younger" driver i just want a fast car....not usn my truck for town but hauln **** i see...the occasional home depot/lowes wood purchase is about the most hauln my trucks done....

for the inner speed demon in me i would want a hemi/srt10 but then reality kicks n and looks down the street at gas prices and says wtf no way im stickn w/ the v6 or 4.7 v8 and mayb ctd if i ever needed to haul stuff around

Ha ha, yeah. Would be so much better if I didnt have to haul stuff! If I didnt well then hell, why not get a charger or challenger!?

I voted for the CTD. Only in anticipation of the 1/2 ton Cummins V-6 powerd Ram that is supposed to come out in 2010 or so. Not for the 3/4 & 1 ton 6.7L Cummins. The V-6 CTD will get around 25 ish mpg. And when we make the switch to Diesel produced from coal, and diesel fuel gets back down to $2.00 - $2.25/gal like itshould ALLREADY be, the V-6 CTD will be the only way to go. Diesel from crude oil is selling for about $95 / barell. HOWEVER, Diesel fuel produced from COAL, wich can be made right here in the good 'ol USA cost about $35 / barell to produce. ( USA has theLARGEST stockpile of coal in the WORLD! ) It IS the government that is keeping fuel prices so high. Simple as that. This is NOT, I repeat NOT new technology. We knew how to make Diesel fuel from coal over 80 years ago!!!!!! We did not do it then, because at that time, curde oil was so cheap that it would have been more expensive. IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE!!
So, in short. No. I would not get the 3.7L again. Even WITH the $1000.00extra rebate. I will be looking at the 2010 Ram real hard when the CTD hits the 1/2 ton market. ( As well as Ford & Chevy 1/2 ton diesels! )

Has any one notice how many of us would buy the 3.7 V-6 again.

Yea most of us can say never again a small gas V-6 in a full size truck.

Like I said before they should of never offered a V-6 in this truck good engine but not enough to pull this truck around power to weight ratio is not a good combo If they had some morecubic inchesit could of worked out just some useable H/P out this engine would of been great also.

Like I said Usable H/P thats make all the diffrents in the world for the ones that don't know what this means the right amount of H/P in the correct RPM range, not the ones with the most H/P always wins but have it in the right place make it a winner or a just anouther over rated POS.

Marv, you are absolutly correct. And I have thought about that issue for some years now. I do not have the time to do a full comparison of Ford vs. Dodge vs. GM on the HP at 1500, 2000, 2500 RPM, as well as the MAX HP and it's posted RPM for the V-6 models. I did this some years ago when I had my 2003 Chevy Cav. LS with the awsome Ecotec motor.( Comparing the Cav./Sunfire vs. Focus vs. Corrolla vs. Civic.) Just as important as the HP ratings, even more so in my book, is WHERE the Torque omes in at! Torque is what gets your speed up off the line. HP carry's you up the steep hill at 60 MPH.

Hey COYOTE10663

I amglad someone else understands Torque and Horse Power and making the most H/P not always means you have the badiest car or truck out there on the road.

I found a lot of pepole don't understand that they just look at the H/P ratings and go by that alone.

For example I have a older race motocycle this thing is fast but I changed the power band including porting it to get more over rev out of it upped the compression, changing the pipe ect, so it's more user freindly made it more a liner type power band rather than Hitting the pipe hard and hang on it now power no mather where you'er are in turn makes easyer to ride you don't have to hold on as tight get tired out as fast and turn faster lap times due to having the correct power band in the correct RPM range, the only draw 2 draw backs are now I have to run race gas $9.00 a gallon and 2nd I need to get rid of it now it's to fast just to go riding or putting around with my Kid and Wife It wants to go fast and now a days I just putt slow so the family can stay up or I going very slow soI can ride with them The motor dose not like it at all it jumpsspits bucks It wants to be rode hard and put away wet not putting around.

What I trying to say this motor Is great for going very fast and racing but not good for just going slow there is a correct and wrong set up for what you want and need one set up normaly can't do it all the best there isgive and take you or the builder of the engine you'r goinging to use for needs to put a lot of thought in to this not just drop any motor in and say it works fine in a car so it should work in a truck also.

As for me when I build this motor for this bike It was for racing and going fast many years ago when going fast I didmostof the time, but I don't need a race motor any more I need a motor that able to be ran slow not at full Bore all the time Like I said making the most H/P is not always the way to go is usable power for what you are going to use it for is.

ORIGINAL: COYOTE10663

Marv, you are absolutly correct. And I have thought about that issue for some years now. I do not have the time to do a full comparison of Ford vs. Dodge vs. GM on the HP at 1500, 2000, 2500 RPM, as well as the MAX HP and it's posted RPM for the V-6 models. I did this some years ago when I had my 2003 Chevy Cav. LS with the awsome Ecotec motor.( Comparing the Cav./Sunfire vs. Focus vs. Corrolla vs. Civic.) Just as important as the HP ratings, even more so in my book, is WHERE the Torque omes in at! Torque is what gets your speed up off the line. HP carry's you up the steep hill at 60 MPH.

Ya I would want the new diesel coming out in 2010. Got the v6 because it was cheap got it used. If the engine goes on it I will definetly throw in a 4.7.

I voted for the v6 not because it is the truck I would choose if I had my choice but it is what I would choose again based on what my payment is. I don't drive that often anyways, I have 10k on my truck that I have had for a year and a half with 2k of those from a trip. If money didn't matter then I would got CTD no question. Would I try to find a 4.7 for near the same price? Yes, but would I pay another 4,000 as was 4.7 when I bought mine? No.

I think the 3.7L is a good engine for something like a liberty where your not really going to pull things but in a Ram or a Dakota even it just seems underpowered. Most of the competitor 6's out there have about 50hp more stock than the 3.7L does. Dodge pays too much attention to the Hemi and none to their V6 engines. If they made a Dakota with a good power V6 with better fuel economy then they would probably sell more Dakotas.