I am noticing since I moved out here to AZ that initial bog when you leave the line is worse than it was in CA. I'm sure it's because I've been turning the eTorque off most of the time to keep the AC at full cold, could a Pedal Commander fix this?
Otherwise, I've been completely happy with the driving dynamics and the power of this V6. It has a nice midrange torque to it and its rated as much as the LS1 in my Z28 was when that thing was stock. Pretty crazy how far engines have come in the last 20 years. I haven't towed in it but I let my buddy borrow it twice to sell a boat and some trailers after he lost his job. He said it felt better to tow than his base model Tundra did. Those two drives probably created another Ram customer
Mileagewise I've been getting a constant average of 20mpg with the driving I'm doing. I live far out in the East Valley so pretty much everything is 55mph driving but still with stoplights. If I go into work on the Interstates, average mileage stays the same but just there at 65-75 I get up in the mid twenties, maybe even like 28. That's better than my Subaru I had before. It only drops way off when I go above 75. When I drove from Orange County to Arizona with a loaded bed I got like 18 mpg, but I was going around 80-85 on the 10.
Still, the last Mopar V6 I had was in a 2WD 2006 Grand Cherokee and that thing would average like 18 mpg with highway driving and like 12 in town. This truck is a Rebel with 3.92s and the stock 32" Duratecs. And it's not like I bought this truck for mileage
At the end of the day, I was agnostic when it came to which engine I was buying when I bought my Ram. I was looking used for a few reasons and my #1 requirement was 4x4. That meant in the pricing I was looking at the choices were between Hemi 4x4 Bighorns and V6 Rebels. I chose the Rebel and I couldn't be happier. Little did I know Covid would create the best deals ever a month later but I'm not a psychic