![]() ![]() There isn't a super-giganto Mega Cab yet, but the Rolls-Roycian 45.2 inches of stretch-out space means that the Ram sports 65 cubic feet of rear-seat room. Crew-cab trucks like the one here get a nice bump in rear legroom, too. Its 5.7-liter Hemi V-8, now available with a 48-volt motor-generator assist, nestles in a redesigned frame wrapped in fresh bodywork. It's a big year in the full-size-truck market-the Ram 1500 is also new. With a barrage of driving assists, 22-inch wheels, the upgraded engine (versus the base 5.3-liter V-8), and power-operated running boards, this one stickers at $67,420. The Silverado tested here is the as-much-as-you-can-spend High Country version, which includes a two-speed transfer case, automatic stop-start, dual exhaust, body-color bumpers, LED lighting, and leather seats (heated and ventilated up front, heated outboard in the rear), and bases at $57,795. Whereas last year's 6.2 saved fuel with a cylinder-deactivation program that shut off four cylinders under light loads, the 2019 engine runs a new scheme from supplier Delphi that can drop as many as six cylinders when conditions are right, running the engine on anything from eight to two pots. The optional V-8 fitted to this example displaces 6.2 liters like the brand's top offering from last year, but the engine, too, is fresh. That's why each of the examples here is its respective maker's highest-trim, daily-use crew-cab model.Ĭhevrolet's Silverado is all-new for 2019, with new bodywork on a new frame. Americans need these workhorses for weekend duty, but that doesn't mean we want them to clomp around like Clydesdales. And few of the cars that race at the country's 1339 drag strips, road courses, and ovals drive there themselves. Boats need to get to the lake, and snowmobiles to the trail. It's estimated that 50 to 60 percent of the world's pleasure craft are sold here, as are more than 40 percent of the world's snowmobiles. It's not that we have so many more contractors, farmers, and tradespeople who need pickups. ![]() ![]() But here's a theory: We don't buy pickups in these quantities because we are more productive than our beret-wearing brothers across the Atlantic. We buy an outrageous number of these things-about 2.3 million that year alone. In 2017, Americans bought more full-size pickups than people did new vehicles, period, in all but the three largest markets in the EU. From the January 2019 issue of Car and Driver. ![]()
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