2025 RAM 1500: Engines, Configurations, and What to Know

The RAM 1500 built its reputation on two things: a ride that embarrasses most of the segment, and an interior that genuinely competes with luxury SUVs. The 2025 model pairs that with an all-new engine lineup.

Here’s how it breaks down.

The Engines

All pair with an eight-speed automatic.

The 3.6L V6 with eTorque is the entry point. The mild-hybrid eTorque system smooths stop-start operation and adds low-end response — useful in stop-and-go traffic on I-10.

The Hurricane Standard Output is where most buyers should land. Four hundred twenty horsepower and 469 lb-ft from a twin-turbocharged inline-six is more than the V8 it replaced produced, with better efficiency. If you tow regularly, start here.

The Hurricane High Output produces 540 horsepower and 521 lb-ft. It’s also the engine in the RAM 1500 RHO, the performance model that replaced the TRX in the lineup.

On the V8 question: the 2025 RAM 1500 is built around the V6 and the Hurricane inline-sixes. RAM has since returned the 5.7L HEMI V8 to the lineup for a later model year, so if a V8 specifically is what you want, ask us what’s on the ground and what’s orderable.

Towing and Payload

Capability varies substantially by engine, cab, bed, axle ratio, and equipment. The brochure maximum belongs to one specific build and isn’t what a given truck does.

Bring us three numbers — your trailer’s loaded weight, its tongue weight, and the payload you’ll carry in the bed. We’ll check them against the door-jamb sticker on specific trucks. That ten-minute conversation prevents the most expensive mistake in this segment, which is buying a truck that’s at its limit every time you hook up.

Air Suspension

The available air suspension is one of the RAM’s genuine advantages over the rest of the segment. It improves ride comfort, lowers at highway speed for aerodynamics, raises for extra clearance, and drops to make hitching a trailer easier.

If you’re cross-shopping half-tons, drive them back to back on a rough road. That’s where the difference shows, and it’s what owners notice daily rather than once a year.

Bed and Storage

The available Multifunction Tailgate swings open 60/40 like a pair of doors in addition to dropping down conventionally. With a trailer hitched or a load in the bed, that’s the difference between reaching your gear and climbing for it.

The RamBox Cargo Management System adds lockable, drainable storage bins built into the bed rails. Tools stay secure and out of the weather, and the drains mean they double as coolers.

Wheels run from 18-inch steel to 22-inch polished aluminum depending on trim.

Interior

This is the strongest argument for the truck.

Screens. Uconnect 5 on a large center touchscreen, with a 14.5-inch display available, a 10.25-inch front-passenger interactive display, and a 12-inch digital driver cluster. Few trucks match that setup.

Rear seat comfort. Reclining rear seats with available heating and ventilation — genuinely rare in a pickup, and worth having if the truck carries passengers regularly.

Premium materials on higher trims including leather-trimmed seating, wood accents, and a suede headliner, plus available heated and ventilated front seats, a panoramic sunroof, and a Harman Kardon audio system.

Safety and Driver Assistance

• Adaptive cruise control
• Blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert
• Lane-keeping assist
• Drowsy Driver Detection
• Traffic Sign Recognition
• Intersection Collision Assist
• ParkSense automated parking assistance

Is the 1500 the Right Truck?

If you tow heavy every week, need gooseneck capability, or carry heavy payload, look at the RAM 2500 or 3500 instead. Buying a half-ton and running it at its ceiling is how brakes, transmissions, and rear axles wear out early.

For everyone else — occasional towing, daily driving, weekend hauling — the 1500 is the right size, and the ride quality makes it far more livable as a daily vehicle.

Frequently Asked Questions

What engines does the 2025 RAM 1500 offer? Three: a 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 with eTorque producing 305 horsepower and 269 lb-ft, a 3.0-liter Hurricane twin-turbo inline-six in Standard Output producing 420 horsepower and 469 lb-ft, and a High Output version producing 540 horsepower and 521 lb-ft. All use an eight-speed automatic.

Does the 2025 RAM 1500 come with a HEMI V8? No. The 2025 lineup is built around the V6 and the Hurricane twin-turbo inline-sixes. RAM has since returned the 5.7L HEMI V8 to the 1500 for a later model year, so ask us what’s currently available.

Is the EcoDiesel still available in the RAM 1500? No. The 3.0-liter EcoDiesel was discontinued from the 1500 lineup after the 2023 model year.

What replaced the RAM 1500 TRX? The RAM 1500 RHO, which uses the 3.0-liter Hurricane High Output inline-six producing 540 horsepower.

What is the Hurricane engine? RAM’s twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six, offered in Standard Output and High Output versions. Both make more power than the V8 they replaced, with improved efficiency.

What is the RAM Multifunction Tailgate? An available tailgate that swings open 60/40 like a pair of doors in addition to folding down conventionally, making it easier to reach into the bed when a trailer is hitched.

What is RamBox? A cargo management system with lockable, drainable storage bins built into the bed rails, useful for securing tools out of the weather or keeping drinks cold.

Where can I test drive a RAM 1500 near El Paso? Sunland Park Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram at 950 Crockett St. in El Paso, TX, serving Las Cruces, Sunland Park, and Alamogordo. Browse our RAM 1500 inventory or contact us at 915-584-9393.

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Configuration matters more on a half-ton than almost anything else. Engine, cab, bed, and axle ratio all move the capability numbers, and the difference between the right build and the wrong one shows up the first time you tow.

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