Feast Your Eyes on the 2025 Ram Heavy Duty Lineup’s New Look

The 2025 Ram Heavy Duty lineup will feature a long list of changes for the new model year, including the exterior design and the powertrain. As the company is nearing the final phases of testing ahead of the grand debut of the refreshed Ram 2500, Ram 3500 and Chassis Cab, and a key component of these final tests relates to cooling. The camouflage used to hide physical changes can affect cooling, especially when there is camo over the front end, so as the brand goes forward, they will be removing the disguises to guarantee proper real world testing of the cooling system. Rather than have spy photographers and media outlets share low quality images, the company has shared three high resolution photographs of the 2025 Ram Heavy Duty lineup.

The company hasn’t shared any actual details on the 2025 Ram Heavy Duty lineup – we will have to wait for the formal debut of the trucks “at a later date” for the full information on the new design, powertrain and technology – but it is clear why camouflage was a concern for testing the cooling system. If you are familiar at all with the current Ram HD lineup, you likely recognized right away that the entire front end has been changed a bit, especially around the grille. With the front end being refreshed, the company camouflage would certainly hide that, but covering the grille or the areas around it in any way can affect cooling.

When these pictures were sent out, the Ram brand stated that we would get more details on the powertrain at a later date. That suggests that there are some changes being made for the 2025 model year and if the past decade of heavy duty truck competition is any sign of what is coming for the 2025 Ram HD, we would expect more torque and a greater towing capacity than the outgoing models. Of course, making over a thousand pound-feet of torque and pulling over 35,000 pounds puts a great deal of stress on the cooling system – so we suspect that the cooling system will be enhanced for this new model year.

The 2024 Ram HD with the high output 6.7-liter Cummins Turbo Diesel engine delivers 420 horsepower and 1,075 lb-ft of torque, leading to a maximum towing capacity of 37,900 pounds. The Ford Super Duty lineup’s PowerStroke is the current power leader with 500 horsepower and 1,200 lb-ft of torque, and can pull up to 38,000 pounds in F-350 trim. It should be noted that Ford often uses its F-450 model when bragging about having the highest towing capacity (40,000) while Ram used the 3500 models. I expect that the 2025 Ram 3500 will be able to out-tow the Ford F-350 and perhaps even the F-450. That jump from 37,900 to over 40,000 would likely come with increased cooling capacity, so it all makes sense that they need to get the camouflage off of the test trucks.