Price MSRP
$63,240
Score
Efficiency
12.1 L/100km
Power Source
Gasoline
The Ram 1500 undergoes numerous changes for 2025, including new engines, new features including hands-free driving assist, a new top-of-the-line Tungsten trim, and all trucks are now 4x4-only. This full-size pickup comes only in quad or crew cab configuration, with seating for five or available six-passengers with an optional front bench seat in some trims. It competes with the Chevrolet Silverado, Ford F-150, GMC Sierra, and Toyota Tundra.
What’s new with the Ram 1500 for 2025?
There’s a great deal that’s new on the Ram 1500 for 2025, starting with the retirement of its 5.7L “Hemi” V8 in favour of regular and high-output versions of a turbocharged inline six-cylinder (the previous 3.6L V6 remains). Two-wheel drive is gone, and all trims are 4x4-only. There are new styling cues including a larger grille and new front and rear lighting, and available tailgate with power open and close. A new Tungsten trim is added, slotted in above the Limited trim that was previously the top dog.
New available features include a 14.5-inch centre touchscreen, 10.25-inch passenger screen, and 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster; rearview camera mirror; dual wireless phone charging pad; the ability to use your phone as a key; and an on-board 2-kW inverter that can power items such as a television or chainsaw. A new hands-free highway driving assist is available, similar to GM’s Super Cruise and Ford’s BlueCruise systems. The automaker is also promising a Ram RHO off-road performance model later in the model year that will sit above the Rebel trim, and perhaps even attempt to at least partially fill the gap left by the discontinued Ram TRX supertruck.
2025 Ram 1500 Performance
The 2025 Ram 1500’s base engine continues to be its 3.6L “Pentastar” V6, making 315 horsepower and 269 lb-ft of torque, and mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission. It includes eTorque, a self-charging mild hybrid system that provides a boost during acceleration for smoother performance and better fuel efficiency, although it can’t drive on electricity alone. It’s available only in the base Tradesman and next-step-up Big Horn trims.
The two new engines are both twin-turbocharged 3.0L inline six-cylinder units, known as Hurricane. The regular-output version, used in the Sport, Rebel, and Laramie trims, makes 420 horsepower and 469 lb-ft of torque. The high-output version makes 540 horsepower and 521 lb-ft of torque, and it’s in the Limited Longhorn, Limited, and Tungsten trims. By comparison, the outgoing 5.7L V8 made 395 horsepower and 410 lb-ft of torque. Both new inline-six engine versions use an eight-speed automatic, and all Ram 1500 models are 4x4 only. An active four-corner air suspension is optional or standard on all but the base Tradesman, and the Ram 1500 continues to use coil springs at all four wheels.
In a first-drive review of the 2025 Ram 1500, Elle Alder said that, “Modern pickups’ shifts to independent front suspension and multilink coil-sprung rears have improved their roadholding and responsiveness significantly, but the 2025 Ram 1500 carries this farther. Even in the base Tradesman trim and with tire pressures nearing 40 psi, the updated platform cruises with astonishing softness. Configured without air height control, the base Tradesman’s double-wishbone front and well-damped rear rides like some older-generation air-sprung premium sedans; indeed, the Tradesman even felt steadier and more comfortable than the Grand Wagoneers we shuttled to and from the airport in.”
2025 Ram 1500 Efficiency
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) hadn’t yet released fuel efficiency figures on the 2025 Ram 1500 at time of writing, and all we have is that the automaker promises the new Hurricane engines will have “improved fuel efficiency” despite being more powerful than the 5.7L V8 they replace.
But we do note that in the official truck specifications from Ram, the 3.6L V6 does fine on regular-grade, 87-octane gasoline; but the lower-output Hurricane 3.0L inline-six is “premium recommended,” while the high-output version is listed with a requirement for 91-octane premium gas.
2025 Ram 1500 Safety
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) hadn’t fully tested the 2025 Ram 1500 at time of writing, but in the crash-tests already performed, both the 2025 quad and crew cabs earned the top five-star rating for side crash, and four stars for rollover. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) also hadn’t tested the 2025 version, but the 2024 Ram earned the top “Good” in the legacy front crash tests, as well as the updated side-impact crash that better simulates being struck by a large SUV; but it rated “Poor” in the updated moderate front overlap test, which now assesses potential injury to a rear-seat passenger, as well as those in the front.
All trims include adaptive cruise control, active lane management, emergency front braking, front and rear park assist with rear braking, and mandatory rearview camera. Available features include blind-spot monitoring, panoramic camera, drowsy driver warning, evasive steering assist, intersection collision warning, traffic sign recognition, trailer reverse steering control, head-up display, and a self-parking feature. The new available Hands-Free Driving Assist system works on pre-mapped roads, which currently covers about 200,000 kilometres in the U.S. and Canada.
2025 Ram 1500 Reliability Rating
Consumer Reports gives the 2025 Ram 1500 a predicted reliability rating of 49/100, and said it expects it to have “about average reliability when compared to the average new car,” based on data from the 2021 through 2023 models. This newest Ram obviously wasn’t judged in the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Vehicle Dependability study, but in the study, which looks at three-year-old vehicles, the Ram 1500 took a third-place award for full-size pickups, while Ram as a brand ranked 17th among all automakers, six steps below the industry average.
2025 Ram 1500 Interior
The 2025 Ram 1500 can get seriously luxurious, with such standard or available features as a dual-pane sunroof, 10.25-inch passenger screen, 10- to 23-speaker sound systems, power-adjustable pedals, heated front and rear seats, ventilated front seats, massaging seats, power-adjustable head restraints, suede headliner, open-pore wood accents, and digital mirror with tow mode.
In a first-drive review of the 2025 Ram 1500, Elle Alder said, “The 2025 Ram 1500 introduces a new capstone ‘Tungsten’ trim…including most everything shy of the additional towing and off-road packages. Taking a page from the Genesis luxury reinvention, investment in nicer materials and slicker cabin technologies loads this top trim with well-executed details including pleasant seat massagers and a head-up display. Held against its peers from Ford and General Motors, the Ram arguably offers the nicest available interior finishes, though its GM-matching infotainment doesn’t quite scratch the excellent new Toyota system launched with the new Tundra.”
2025 Ram 1500 Dimensions
The 2025 Ram isn’t offered in a two-door regular cab. In quad cab configuration, it carries a 6-foot-4 bed. All crew cabs start out with a 5-foot-7 bed, and all but the Rebel and Tungsten trims can be stretched out to a 6-foot-4 bed. Towing capacity across the lineup is a maximum of 11,580 lbs, while maximum payload tops out at 1,043 kg (2,300 lbs).
New for 2025 is an available power open-and-close tailgate with obstacle detection, with a lowering button on the key fob. A multi-function tailgate with vertical split continues to be offered, which can be dropped down conventionally or its split sections opened sideways like a door. Also available is the RamBox system, a pair of locking, waterproof, and drainable storage bins in the bed rails, which include a 115-volt outlet. While they slightly reduce the inner bed width, they can be used to securely store tools, wet or dirty items, fishing tackle and more, or function as a cooler when filled with ice. Crew cabs include available in-floor storage bins.
2025 Ram 1500 Canadian Pricing
The 2025 Ram 1500 in quad cab comes in two trim levels: the Tradesman starts at $60,445 and the Big Horn at $63,945. As noted above, all trucks this year come only in 4x4 configuration.
The crew cab comes in seven trims. The Tradesman starts at $61,945; the Big Horn at $65,445; the Sport at $75,945; the Rebel at $77,945; the Laramie at $82,445; the Limited at $94,945; and the new-for-2025 Tungsten begins at $107,945.