2022 RAM 1500

[Timeless]

My crystal ball says you will see Uconnect 5 and a center console shifter like the new F150 and TRX versus the electronic dial.

Agree on the UConnect...not so much on the console shifter. I hope they keep the dial and see no reason to change it.

 

[securityguy]

I hope they keep the dial and see no reason to change it.

See shifter below...I'll bet it's coming back soon.

 

[iLikeTurtles]

See shifter below...I'll bet it's coming back soon.

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I think the trx sportiness and peoples intent to "shift themselves" is the reason for a physical lever instead of dial and buttons.
"I feel like I row my own gears, im so hard core."

Not having the shifter on the console frees up a lot of room in my opinion.
I never felt strongly one way or another of the dial, but I enjoy having a large center console with vast room for drugs. I mean product. I mean, yes.

 

[SpeedyV]

See shifter below...I'll bet it's coming back soon.

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You must be joking, showing the TRX

For a sport truck, I get it. But a console shifter would be a step backward in utility 99% of the time.

 

[securityguy]

You must be joking, showing the TRX

For a sport truck, I get it. But a console shifter would be a step backward in utility 99% of the time.

Showing the TRX because RAM DID install a console shifter. Just sharing what I have been hearing in some of the pubs I run across on the Internet. No one really knows except for RAM insiders, but I wouldn't totally rule it out either.

 

[Biga]

I was actually wondering about that myself with the 2022 new Tundra and the 2022 new GM interiors it might take some of the spot light off them .

I am wondering as well, The GM's are getting a facelift for 2022 and their current design actually came out about 6 months after the current 5th gen ram.

 

[securityguy]

GM will be adding the latest interiors/dash from the GMC Yukon and Denali into their 2022 trucks to get more on par with RAM and what Ford has done in the 2021.

 

[PostPremium]

See shifter below...I'll bet it's coming back soon.

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That has everything to do with that truck being a TRX and nothing to do with the 1500 DTs.

 

[securityguy]

That has everything to do with that truck being a TRX and nothing to do with the 1500 DTs.

Says who??? How do you know that RAM won't bring this to the 1500??? I am not saying they will, but the odds are that it may. We'll all see soon enough.

 

[SpeedyV]

That has everything to do with that truck being a TRX and nothing to do with the 1500 DTs.

I tend to agree, as the current Ram console is awesome. Why ruin it?

I do “get it” for the TRX and/or a high-performance street version. But even then, the paddle shifters might be enough without the console change.

 

[securityguy]

I tend to agree, as the current Ram console is awesome. Why ruin it?

Because that's what MARKETING folks do! I am not saying that I am for the console shifter as I have grown to love my rotary dial and like the space offered in the center console. However, I still believe that this change is coming our way...just a matter of time.

 

[SpeedyV]

Because that's what MARKETING folks do! I am not saying that I am for the console shifter as I have grown to love my rotary dial and like the space offered in the center console. However, I still believe that this change is coming our way...just a matter of time.

As a design and engineering professional currently running a technical marketing team, I respectfully disagree. Our intent is to give customers what they want...executed in the best way possible (so that they continue to buy from us).

 

[SD Rebel]

I don't see RAM going away from rotary dials for regular 1500s, it does limit a bit of flexible space with the shifter in place, which I don't personally like. I rather have the steering wheel paddles and keep the rotary dial.

We have a very good ZF8-speed, it would be nice to have some better control over it, heck even current Toyota Corollas all come with steering wheel paddles, and they are CVTs!

 

[securityguy]

As a design and engineering professional currently running a technical marketing team, I respectfully disagree. Our intent is to give customers what they want...executed in the best way possible (so that they continue to buy from us).

And I am an engineer as well that moved many years ago into Technical Sales & Marketing Executive Leadership. I don't disagree, but things don't always go the way you/we want them too Many manufacturers are moving away from dials to either console shifters or push buttons. As I stated above, don't hate me for what I am saying as it may very well come true and is certainly an option I believe RAM is looking at regardless of whether we "want" it or not. If RAM did make the change, it would not stop me from buying another one.

 

[Dr. Jim]

Before model year 2018, the Dodge Durango had a rotary dial. In 2018 and newer, Dodge went to a console shifter on all models, whether it be a basic V6 or a R/T or SRT Durango. So, with FCA, it can happen.

 

[SD Rebel]

Before model year 2018, the Dodge Durango had a rotary dial. In 2018 and newer, Dodge went to a console shifter on all models, whether it be a basic V6 or a R/T or SRT Durango. So, with FCA, it can happen.

That's a good point, but the console shifter is a compromise in the design of the RAM center console, which wasn't designed for one and it shows by how it locks in the front tray forward, which I can't stand. If they do go with a shifter as standard, I hope with come up with a better solution for the console setup than they did with the TRX.

 

[Biga]

I love have having that giant space in the center console, it is big enough to hold a gallon of milk or if you pickup fast food it fits easily inside without having to put on the seat or flooring.

 

[securityguy]

I love have having that giant space in the center console, it is big enough to hold a gallon of milk or if you pickup fast food it fits easily inside without having to put on the seat or flooring.

You're making me hungry.....

 

[piening2150]

Before model year 2018, the Dodge Durango had a rotary dial. In 2018 and newer, Dodge went to a console shifter on all models, whether it be a basic V6 or a R/T or SRT Durango. So, with FCA, it can happen.

Actually the Durango went from a standard console shifter (pre '13), to the knob plopped in the same console spot ('14 -'17), and back to the standard console shifter ('18+). So that's not really apples to apples.

I think the knob makes sense in vehicles where it frees up valuable console/dash space (1500, Pacifica) but they make no sense if it's just a knob slapped into a standard shifter location (Durango, 300, 200).

Having said all that... A good old fashioned column shifter would also free up that valuable space just as well.

And I can totally see Ram offering the TRX floor shifter as part of an optional 'sport' package or something. Functionality and console space be damned.

 

[devildodge]

What about the twin turbo super 6. When ia that going to show up.

Of course we were told the 7.0l Banshee motor was jettisoned. But that would have surely been cool in two flavors. SRT and BGE. Just like the 6.4l SRT and BGE.

This would give the HeavyDuty the punch to take out Godzilla and give the TRX some options.

Then the 1500 could pic its poison and get an optional V8 into the Rebel and Limited.

I wish they would offer a Manual shifter again...but alas...just like the column shifter it is gone forever lol