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It doesn't booty abundant to about-face a half-ton auto into a accessory off-road brawler. A baby lift, compact tires, and a little armor turns any Home Depot bombinate into a back-country rig. The 2015 Ram Rebel builds on a continued attitude of putting the appropriate genitalia in the appropriate places, converting the accepted Ram 1500 into a barter congenital for the hills.
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The Rebel is an acknowledgment to machines like the Ford F-150 FX4 and Chevrolet Silverado Z71. But area those added street-oriented rivals await on mall-terrain tires and bumpers dressed in chrome or, worse, paint, Ram brings accepted hardware.
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There are two engines: a 3.6-liter V6 with 305 hp and 269 lb-ft of torque or a 395-hp 5.7-liter V8 with 410 lb-ft of torque. Trucks able with the six are alone accessible in four-wheel drive with a new 3.92:1 rear-axle ratio. Go for the big eight and you get added options, including two-wheel drive and a added able 3.21:1 rear-axle ratio. Both engines are anchored to an eight-speed automated transmission.
The Rebel ditches the accustomed crosshair grille for a added advancing snout. A sculpted aluminum awning adds added annoyance to the mix, as do powder-coated animate bumpers and Power Wagon fender flares. New red accents, Rebel badging, and tread-pattern vinyl seats accomplish for a aciculate cabin.
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Ram's air-ride abeyance is accepted on the Rebel, and it sits one inch higher. A set of accurately acquainted Bilstein monotube dampers complements the ride height, as do tweaked amplitude bars. That added inch of lift does added for the truck's beheld attendance than its off-road prowess, but the new 33-inch Toyo Open Country A/T tires accord the Rebel some teeth off tarmac. Wrapped about new 17-inch admixture wheels, they're as quiet on alley as they are able in sand, snow, and mud. Accepted aluminum drift plates assure the truck's bendable spots underneath.
Engineers slowed the Rebel's council arrangement for bigger off-road control, and the coil-spring rear soaks up washboards and pocked clay roads. Old-school leaf-spring pickups go area you point them, but whether your kidneys accomplish the cruise is addition matter. The Rebel will get you area you're going, centralized organs and all.
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That's not to say it's a able hellion. It takes connected acuity and a alternation of button mashes to accumulate the onboard nannies at bay. Accord us accessible defeats for adherence and absorption control, and we'd be happier.
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Yet the Rebel is a barter that's consistently animated to abruptness you with its capability. It will beam and beating that angel off your shoulder, auspicious you to lay advance in abstinent snow or clutter up that absurd acropolis climb. For those of us who spent our youths bashing beyond fields and acrimonious through forests in a beater with a bed, the Rebel is a accustomed accomplice.
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