Lucas Jeep Chrysler Dodge RAM
2027 Ram 1500
Four gas engines. Up to 11,530 lbs of towing, up to 2,340 pounds of payload. On Route 38 at Lucas Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram.
Pricing for the 2027 Ram 1500 opens at $42,375, and the four gas engines behind that badge are spread wider apart than they are in most half-ton lineups: a 3.6L Pentastar V6 making 305 horsepower, the 3.0L Hurricane twin-turbo inline-six in 420- and 540-horsepower tunes, and a 5.7L HEMI V8 at 395. The 11,530-lb tow ceiling belongs to a 3.0L Hurricane truck; the 2,340-pound payload ceiling belongs to a 3.6L Pentastar V6 truck, each properly equipped. Those are two different vehicles, and deciding which of the two peaks your weekends really need settles most of the purchase.
Lucas Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram stocks, sells and services the Ram 1500 from Route 38 in Lumberton, delivering out to Cherry Hill, Burlington, Mt Ephraim, Robbinsville and the wider South Jersey market. Below, in order: the engines, the trim ladder, the cabin and its screens, what each configuration will actually pull and carry, the off-road hardware, the safety equipment, and a short path to the build that suits how you drive.
Ram offers four gas engines for 2027 and runs all of them through an eight-speed automatic. The output band spans 305 to 540 horsepower depending on what you order. Not every engine is available on every trim, and the engine decision shifts towing, payload, fuel grade and running cost simultaneously.
| Engine | Horsepower | Torque | Max towing | Max payload | Fuel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6L Pentastar V6 | 305 hp | 269 lb-ft | 8,100 lbs | 2,340 pounds | Regular |
| 3.0L Hurricane, Standard Output | 420 hp | 469 lb-ft | 11,530 lbs | 1,880 pounds | Regular |
| 3.0L Hurricane, High Output | 540 hp | 521 lb-ft | 9,480 lbs | 1,530 pounds | Premium |
| 5.7L HEMI V8 | 395 hp | 410 lb-ft | 11,470 lbs | 1,760 pounds | Midgrade |
Each ceiling quoted above assumes a properly equipped truck. Options, fitted equipment, the people aboard and what is in the bed all pull the real figure down.
The V6 doubles as the payload champion and the economy pick. Properly equipped it takes the lineup’s 2,340-pound maximum payload, and it is the only engine here rated 22 mpg combined with two-wheel drive, at 20 city and 25 highway, dropping to 21 combined once four-wheel drive is added. Regular fuel is all it asks for. A Burlington County contractor loading the bed every morning and running Route 130 up toward Trenton ends up with a far more sensible truck than the bottom rung of the price ladder would suggest.
If the figure that matters to you is 11,530 lbs, the Standard-Output Hurricane is the engine that produces it. It is a twin-turbocharged gas inline-six in a segment where nearly every rival fits a V6 or a V8, and at 420 horsepower and 469 lb-ft it beats the HEMI’s torque by 59 lb-ft while still drinking regular. EPA rates it 20 mpg combined with two-wheel drive and 19 with four. Shortlist it first if a boat leaves your driveway for the Shore ramps down the Parkway most summer weekends.
Take those same three litres to High-Output tune and the numbers become 540 horsepower and 521 lb-ft. Nothing else here moves a loaded truck more quickly, but the trade is premium fuel and a tow rating that falls to 9,480 lbs, because the trucks it goes into are heavier and more specialised. EPA rates it 17 mpg combined with four-wheel drive. Choose it as a performance engine with your eyes open; it is not an upgrade for a tow rig.
The HEMI survives into 2027 on select Ram 1500 models, and for plenty of buyers it is still the noise and the character they walk in asking for by name. Output stands at 395 horsepower and 410 lb-ft, with a properly equipped tow rating of 11,470 lbs, within 60 lbs of the Hurricane. Midgrade is the recommended grade. EPA rates the four-wheel-drive truck at 18 mpg combined with eTorque and 17 without it.
The range still begins with a work truck, but where it once ended at luxury it now ends at a pair of 777-horsepower halo models. Published starting MSRP is $42,375; destination adds $2,795. MSRP excludes destination freight charge, tax, title, license, dealer fees, and optional equipment; the dealer sets the final price. Cab, bed, drivetrain and package content swing a Ram 1500’s price much harder than the name on the tailgate does, so budget against the figure attached to the individual truck on our lot.
| Trim | Who it is for |
|---|---|
| Tradesman | The working entry point: the truck you buy to earn with. |
| Express | Tradesman hardware with more visual attitude. |
| Warlock | Blacked-out styling on a mild-hybrid V6 four-by-four. |
| Big Horn | The volume trim, and the one most South Jersey driveways end up with. |
| Lone Star | Big Horn content under its own badge. |
| Laramie | The first genuinely quiet, leather-lined step of the ladder. |
| Rebel | The off-road specification for the Pine Barrens and rough back roads. |
| RHO | High-Output Hurricane performance with desert-runner hardware. |
| Limited Longhorn | Western-themed luxury with full towing intent. |
| Limited | The chrome-and-leather flagship of the mainstream range. |
| Tungsten | The most richly finished truck in the range. |
| TRX SRT | 777 supercharged horsepower, from $99,995 plus destination. |
| Rumble Bee | New for 2027: a widebody Quad Cab muscle truck, from $59,995. |
No name in the range is newer than the Rumble Bee, and it is not one truck but four. Entry is the 5.7L HEMI V8 car at $59,995, already open for orders and reaching dealerships in the fourth quarter of 2026. The 392 Track Pack sits at $79,995, between the Rumble Bee 392 at $69,995 and the Rumble Bee SRT at $94,995, all three landing in the first half of 2027. All four share a Quad Cab, short-bed, widebody shell that Ram calls the only production configuration of its kind, riding a wheelbase that is nearly 9 inches shorter than the standard Ram 1500 Quad Cab. Topping it all, the SRT runs the supercharged 6.2L HEMI V8, rated 777 horsepower and 680 lb-ft, on 22-inch aluminum wheels behind Brembo brakes, with four-corner air suspension available. Ram’s computer-simulated figures for it: 3.4 seconds to 60 mph, an 11.6-second quarter mile, a 170 mph top speed. Trim by trim, the whole ladder is broken out on our 2027 Ram 1500 trims page.
Combined available digital display area runs to over 50 inches. In a real truck that means a large central Uconnect touchscreen, a fully digital gauge cluster, and on trims that offer it, a screen of the passenger’s own. The size matters more here than it might elsewhere. A summer run down the Parkway or Route 72 toward the Shore is a stop-and-go crawl, and a map you can read at a glance plus hands-free calling do genuine work in it, while a co-pilot screen keeps the passenger off the driver’s display when I-295 backs up.
Wireless smartphone integration, the digital cluster and connected navigation are the three things owners comment on inside the first week. Screen sizes, and which trims carry which display, sit inside the feature grid on the specs page.
In a Crew Cab you get 40.9 inches of front head room, 40.9 inches of front leg room, 66.0 inches of front shoulder room and seating for six. Big-cab figures, and it is the shoulder measurement that settles whether three adults across the front bench is genuinely usable or merely technically possible. Inside is also where the trim ladder is most visible: hard-wearing work-truck materials down at the Tradesman end, leather, wood and open-pore finishes up in the Tungsten.
One practical note for anyone running gear down to the Shore: fuel capacity is 26 or 33 gallons depending on the configuration, so a full tank over a loaded bed covers a long weekend between Lumberton and Long Beach Island with no refuelling stop, and the available RamBox cargo management system built into the bed rails adds lockable, drainable storage that keeps wet gear out of the cabin altogether.
For most Ram 1500 buyers in South Jersey, this is the part of the page that actually decides the purchase. Note that the two headline ceilings are set by two different trucks, and neither is reachable unless that truck is properly equipped.
| Configuration | Maximum towing | Maximum payload |
|---|---|---|
| 3.0L Hurricane, Standard Output | 11,530 lbs | 1,880 pounds |
| 5.7L HEMI V8 | 11,470 lbs | 1,760 pounds |
| 3.0L Hurricane, High Output | 9,480 lbs | 1,530 pounds |
| 3.6L Pentastar V6 | 8,100 lbs | 2,340 pounds |
Set the two columns side by side and the trade-off is plain. Against its High-Output sibling the Standard-Output Hurricane takes the tow rating by 2,050 lbs; against that same Standard-Output Hurricane the V6 takes payload by 460 pounds. A center-console boat on a tandem trailer heading for a Jersey Shore ramp down the Parkway sits comfortably inside every engine offered here. It is the heavy fifth-wheel run up the Turnpike where the Hurricane’s margin begins to earn its money.
Payload is the number that catches buyers out, because it counts people, tools, coolers and trailer tongue weight all together, so a Crew Cab loaded with family for Long Beach Island has used a meaningful slice of it before a single item goes in the bed. Configuration-by-configuration figures, including the 6,900-pound GVWR of the Big Horn Crew Cab, are on the specs and dimensions page.
Loose surfaces and broken ground are the Rebel’s and the RHO’s territory. The Rebel is the mainstream off-road trim; the RHO puts the 540-horsepower High-Output Hurricane behind desert-runner suspension and running gear. Everything in the range shares a 98 percent steel frame beneath it, plus a multi-link coil spring rear suspension that plenty of rival half-tons still go without. A Four-Corner Active-Level air suspension system, Class-Exclusive and optional, raises and lowers ride height on demand.
South Jersey’s own version of this test is the sandy fire roads through the Pine Barrens and the unplowed back roads after a winter storm, rather than a coastline. Coil-spring rear suspension and air ride are genuinely useful on soft, uneven ground at low speed, and the same hardware that handles a muddy Pine Barrens trail brings a Rebel or RHO home quietly down Route 38 afterward.
The 2027 Ram 1500 carries more than 100 standard and available safety and security features. Around here the ones that earn their place are the ones that work in traffic and in bad weather: cameras when you are backing a trailer down a crowded boat ramp, blind-spot monitoring that allows for how long that trailer is, and the driver-assistance package that softens a stop-and-go run on I-295. Standard-versus-optional by trim, plus published crash-test information, is set out on the specs page.
Five routes cover most of what walks into the showroom in Lumberton.
| If you mostly… | Start with |
|---|---|
| Tow a boat every summer weekend | Standard-Output 3.0L Hurricane, Big Horn or Laramie, 11,530 lbs properly equipped |
| Load the bed every working day | 3.6L Pentastar V6, up to 2,340 pounds properly equipped, on regular |
| Want the V8 and know it | 5.7L HEMI, available on select models, 11,470 lbs properly equipped |
| Run the Pine Barrens or a rough back road | Rebel, or RHO for the 540-horsepower version of the same idea |
| Want the quietest truck on the lot | Laramie, then Limited and Tungsten |
The single build that covers the most of these jobs at once is a well-equipped Big Horn Crew Cab with four-wheel drive and the Hurricane, and that is exactly why it turns over quickest on our lot. See what is on the ground in Lumberton.
You will find Lucas Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram at 1624 Route 38 in Lumberton, an easy drive out of the Philadelphia suburbs and a short run for anyone coming from Cherry Hill, Burlington, Mt Ephraim or Turnersville by way of Route 38 and I-295. Proximity counts for more when the vehicle is a pickup, because a Ram 1500 keeps returning on a service schedule, and having that service drive off Route 38 rather than across the river is worth genuine hours over a few years of ownership.
With early 2027 allocation arriving in Lumberton and real depth still left in the outgoing year, two options are live at once: order the 2027 build you actually want, or take something home this week. The same store looks after buyers in Cherry Hill, Burlington, Mt Ephraim, Robbinsville, Turnersville and Lawrenceville. Tell the team how the truck will really be used, trailer weight included, and the specification falls out of that rather than out of a trim badge. Call (609) 354-5619, view the current 2027 Ram 1500 inventory, or get pre-approved.
Starting MSRP for the 2027 Ram 1500 is $42,375, with destination adding a further $2,795. MSRP excludes destination freight charge, tax, title, license, dealer fees, and optional equipment, and the dealer sets the final price. Because cab, bed, drivetrain and packages shift that figure substantially, work from the sticker on the specific truck.
Yes, on select 2027 Ram 1500 models. The 5.7L HEMI V8 is rated at 395 horsepower and 410 lb-ft, and a properly equipped truck will tow 11,470 pounds.
The ceiling is 11,530 lbs, set by a properly equipped 3.0L Hurricane truck. Behind it, properly equipped: 11,470 lbs from the 5.7L HEMI V8, 9,480 lbs from the High-Output Hurricane, and 8,100 lbs from the 3.6L Pentastar V6.
That is the 3.6L Pentastar V6 with two-wheel drive: EPA estimates of 20 city, 25 highway, 22 combined mpg. Add four-wheel drive to the same engine and the estimates become 19 city, 24 highway, 21 combined. Source: fueleconomy.gov.
Only two do. Premium is the rating for the High-Output 3.0L Hurricane and for the supercharged 6.2L V8. The 5.7L HEMI V8 is rated on midgrade. Regular covers the Standard-Output Hurricane along with the 3.6L Pentastar V6. Figures from fueleconomy.gov.
The maximum is 2,340 pounds, and it belongs to a properly equipped 3.6L Pentastar V6 truck. From there: 1,880 pounds with the Standard-Output Hurricane, 1,760 pounds with the 5.7L HEMI V8, 1,530 pounds with the High-Output Hurricane.
A four-model muscle-truck range new for 2027, every one of them on a Quad Cab, short-bed, widebody shell riding a wheelbase that is nearly 9 inches shorter than the standard Ram 1500 Quad Cab. Entry is the 5.7L HEMI V8 at $59,995, due in the fourth quarter of 2026. Three more follow across the first half of 2027: the Rumble Bee 392 ($69,995), the 392 Track Pack ($79,995) and the SRT ($94,995). Power for the SRT comes from the supercharged 6.2L HEMI V8, rated 777 horsepower and 680 lb-ft, with computer-simulated performance figures of 3.4 seconds to 60 mph, 11.6 seconds over the quarter mile and 170 mph flat out. MSRP excludes the $2,795 destination charge.
Coverage runs 3 years or 36,000 miles basic, and 5 years or 60,000 miles limited powertrain. Exactly how those terms land on a particular truck is confirmed against its VIN at the service desk; intervals and running costs are set out on the maintenance and service page.
Shopping last year’s model? Our 2026 Ram 1500 guide covers the previous model year.
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