Look, because I’ve now driven the thing. I know. I ‘get it’, if you like. I understand, now, why importer the Ateco Group has added the 5.7 litre PETROL-fueled 4x4 1500 double-cab model to its local utility line-up.
Chances are, however, that if you haven’t climbed up (because that’s what you indeed have to do to get into the thing) into the cab and settled in behind the steering wheel, all you’ll see is its imposing, Greenie-threatening , ‘plussize’ silhouette, and think to yourself, why would I ever need a truck as big as THAT? Particularly one which slurps rather than sips Marsden Point’s finest. Which would be a hell of a shame, because I not only think that the RAM 1500 is a hell of a truck, I also…