Ram Vehicles’ gross sales booming in Australia

Seeing a ton of monumental, Australian re-engineered Ram pickups on the roads? Your eyes don’t deceive you.

The Australian distributor for Ram Vehicles offered 603 full-size pickups in September – 557 of which have been the Ram 1500 with its Hemi petrol V8.

The September tally was Ram Vehicles Australia’s second-best month for the 12 months behind June, and positioned the corporate forward of Jeep (576) and Skoda (566).

That outcome additionally took Ram’s year-to-date tally to 4153 gross sales, up 45 per cent over the identical interval in 2021.

This tally includes 3636 of the Ram 1500, and 517 of the even larger Ram 2500 and 3500 diesels. To place this YTD tally into context, that’s extra gross sales than Land Rover (3446).

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Furthermore there’s the worth, with the most cost effective Ram 1500 Quad Cab kicking off at $82,950 earlier than on-road prices, and the flagship Ram 1500 TRX topping out at $199,950 earlier than on-roads.

Stated TRX sports activities a supercharged 6.2-litre V8 engine producing 523kW of energy and 882Nm of torque and a constantly-variable all-wheel drive system. These outputs are up 232kW and 326Nm on the Ram 1500’s normal 5.7-litre V8.

Ram Vehicles Australia is Stellantis’ solely factory-backed right-hand drive distributor of its largest pickup vehicles.

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It’s owned by the Ateco Group, and contracts Walkinshaw to transform them to right-hand drive at a round the clock manufacturing facility in Melbourne, with a whole lot of latest components fitted.

This is identical facility that converts the Ram 1500-rivalling Chevrolet Silverados offered by the factory-backed GMSV model – which itself is having an excellent 12 months, with an extra 1530 of those pickups offered YTD.

Walkinshaw can be concerned in Toyota Australia’s plan to promote regionally re-engineered Tundras right here within the close to future.

Not one to overlook out on a burgeoning market with excessive revenue margins, Ford can be bringing regionally transformed F-150s right here subsequent 12 months in partnership with RMA Automotive at a facility in Mickleham, Victoria.

Australians are merely head-over-heels in love with these heavy haulers whether or not they actually want them, or simply need them.

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