Sydwayz

Long or Short bed?
2500 or 3500?

Any difference in ride from 2016 models?

sprsptr

Might be popular, but probably 90k.+ loaded.

MonkeySea2

My brother-in-law just got his 1st 2017 Duramax in but it's already sold! I love the new hood scoop and body colored bumpers and bow ties. Looks clean!

Bad Ass TA WS6

Both are Crew Cab standard beds. 1 Denalli @ $69,1. 1 SLT. @ $63,5. 1 other Denali en route. I'm in BMW service so we are kinda segregated, have not driven a Diesel variant of either year. I will say that both the 6 spd. '14/'15 MY gas jobs, along with the newer '16+ 8spd. gas trucks shift extremely poorly. Upshifts from a stop, and downshifts at times feel like you are getting rear-ended. I wouldn't buy one until they fix that issue. I get the "its a truck" but its pretty bad. Several of my coworkers have them so I've got some seat time in them.

1 other interesting thing is that I've heard that the lease program has now opened up to 2500s, which I don't recall ever being a thing.

obnoxus

I had a 6.0 Chevy 2500 and pulled a 36 Outlaw. It pulled it but liked to shift,,,,, ALOT. When I switched to the 8100/ Allison combo was night and day.

If you dont tow far, and it will be your DD the 6.0 will serve you well. If you like to travel I would step up IMO.

And you are right there on weight. I was 12,600 on my Eagle trailer

sprsptr

GM has had nasty shifting tranny's for a few years now. Can't seem to get a consistent performance from them. My son has a 1/2 ton '16 chevy with the same poor clunky shifting you describe. Nice truck, plenty of juice with the 5.3, but he has no confidence in the durability of the transmission. It seems that they should have figured that out by now.

RollWithIt

MonkeySea2, if you are looking at towing around 8k, you can easily look at half ton trucks which will be a lot cheaper and ride better. I think everybody has half tons that tow around 10k pounds easily.

Obnoxus, yes, the 6.0 would tow my boat as it is rated at 14.5k. I can also get a Ram with the 6.4 that will tow 15k lbs. The big concern is that they will get horrible gas mileage. I was reading reviews online where people were only getting about 10 to 11 miles per gallon with the 6.0. The Ram boys claim better at around 13 to 14. Thats combines city highway. Problem with the gassers, you need the 4.10 gears for those tow rates. And when I can possibly get a Cummins powered Ram for the same price as a 6.0 Chevy, its hard to pass up. I will admit the styling was nice on the chevy. But I am partial to the Mega Cab for space and comfort.

As for towing, Most trips will be local. We will tow the boat to Lake Erie from Pittsburgh a couple times a year. We have also towed it to Florida and hope to do more trips in the future. We also do at least one trip to the Outer Banks a year. So we do some long runs.

RollWithIt

Well, I did it. Let the comments begin along with all the mistakes... lol 2017 Ram Mega Cab with the Cummins Diesel. Big Horn trim. They gave us a decent deal and trade offer on old truck and the Challenger. Got the truck for 53,900 and after the trades, financing about 39K unless we decide to put some money down. Have to wait for the Credit Union to open on Monday to sign paperwork as well as get both trades to the dealer, which is an hours drive from home.

RollWithIt

http://www.solomonchryslerjeepdodgec...91b65d1efe.htm

Dont have a paid membership right now so this is the link to the dealer page. The listed price is with all available incentives, some of which I did not qualify for. But still got a price close to it.

COOPS

Picked mine up today from getting the dpf converter replaced under warranty. No matter what I still think it's the best truck I have ever owned and we have had several deisel rams.

You will love the space of the megacab.