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It’s a Ram 4500, and its 16-foot-long bed has to be one of the longest beds in the world. The pickup has been stretched out to a 205-inch wheelbase to accommodate the gargantuan bed.
And you thought your pickup could haul. An off-road truck super fan has built a Ram 4500 with a 16-foot-long bed, twice the maximum length that the factory offers.
When the 4x4 Crew Cab is built, it doesn’t have a flatbed—or any bed at all. It’s up to the buyer to install whatever they want, be it a utility box, a dump bed, or whatever.
You can bet Ford intends on regaining its crown with the next F-450. That would set the stage for a Ram 4500 or 5500 pickup, giving truck customers two 10-lug options for their tow machines.
Ram tells us it has third-party verification that the brand has class-leading 4500/5500 exhaust brake performance against Ford Super Duty F-450/F-550 here, and that wouldn’t surprise us at all.
Loaded with a "big-truck" look and feel, Ram 4500 and 5500 Chassis Cabs boast a legendary Cummins turbodiesel in a 6.7-liter displacement as standard and a six-speed automatic or manual transmission.
Ram plans to move production of its 2500 and 3500 from Saltillo, Mexico, to Warren, just outside Detroit, in 2020. It’s not clear if the bigger Ram 4500 and 5500 will follow.
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