Accurate numbers haven’t rolled in yet, but we believe that this is the one millionth Ram 1500 variant offered in the past five years.
Okay, that’s far from the truth, but it seems like the folks at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announce new pickup packages each time the tide goes out. The latest, announced today, is the Night package, available on 2017 Ram 1500 models.
Like other recent packages, this package is inspired by another package — the 2013 Ram 1500 Black Express package. (It also borrows from the existing Sport package.)
There’s no cheap matte wrap here, but neither are there any shiny bits. Ram blacks out almost all chrome with this package — grille, bumpers, wheels, badges, lettering — but leaves the tailpipes gleaming for practical reasons. Rear side windows receive a strong tint, but it’s up to the owner to test local laws with the front glass.
Anything not blacked out is body colored, with five paint choices to choose from (black being an obvious choice here). There’s no matte option. The wheels are 20-inch gloss black aluminum jobs, and don’t expect white-letter tires.
Optional accessories include blacked out running boards and sport hood, a Mopar cat-back exhaust and cold-air intake, and the RamBox cargo system. Adjustable air suspension is also offered, because you want that thing low when you’re rolling around town.
Ram will offer the package on all body styles and bed lengths, two- or four-wheel-drive, with either the 3.6-liter V6 or 5.7-liter V8. Pricing hasn’t been announced, but the Ram 1500 Night goes into production in the early fourth quarter.
[Images: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles]
I thought “murdered out” meant everything but the glass made as non-reflective black as possible.
Like the little Sentra sedan I’ve seen around town here :-D :-D :-D
By the way, your definition is correct. And because this is available in other colors and with gloss paint, it is not in fact “murdered out.”
Thanks Urban Dictionary! You help me learn new phrases without having to go to the bad parts of town.
I mean, you should *see* that little Sentra! It’s like that VW ad with the kid in a Darth suit.
Get a photo with your Jitterbug phone!
No! I haz a smart phone. Everyone in the family made me get one last month. It’s an LG Destiny.
That’s as cheap as they get, no? Point of pride.
Hell I don’t think you even have to go to the bad parts of town. Seems,like when people get a black car they have to black everything out so,it looks like a mobile blob of black ink rolling down the road.
IMO its incredibly played out.
The murdered out Silverados are better.
Aye, for once, GM leads instead of following…with OEM murdered-out trims, anyway.
Except Ram already did a “murdered out” package back in 2006—the Ram Night Runner. So much for “leading” eh?
I forgot about that one, despite someone in town owning one.
Do people still use that term? It just reminds me of about 2002, when you’d hear a Ja Rule song on the radio.
IT’S MURDAAAAA.
Ja Rule: For people who want DMX’s gangsta image without all that troublesome genuine gangsta attitude.
Ja Rule: The rapper you can listen to on your way to Panera.
I’m so glad that he didn’t become an enduring thing like 50 Cent did, because 50 Cent was bad enough!
I’ve got a fetish for f***ing you with your skirt on,
on a backstreet,
In the back of the Yukon,
and then getting a Pick 2 with a Bacon Turkey Bravo and a French Onion Soup
I liked the Stinger Yellow Sport more.
I will say though I am happy the Mopar accessory catalog now offers a way to make the Ram’s sport hood functional.
Pic shows white letter tires, but not available?
Has complaining about that tailgate badge jumped the shark yet? Because Jesus H. Christ that billboardesque RAM badge is hideous.
It would look significantly better if it said Dodge, partly because it would have to be smaller to fit the extra letters, but honestly when you see it in person it’s not too bad.
I agree, but my problem with it is more that my smartass demeanor extends to my internal monologue. Every time I see one of these in the wild or am behind one my brain shouts “RAM!!!1” because that’s how I see it presented.
I wonder if the giant RAM sign increases incidents of rear ending with these things.
@vogo,
If you can’t Dodge it, Ram it!
“You know there’s truth and style in a world where they put ‘Dodge’ on the front of the truck heading right at you. But they also put ‘Ram’ on the side, so you know they’re after your @ss!”
– Gallagher
Same here, like when I see an ad or post in all caps, I feel like saying “why are you screaming to me?”
Almost as bad as an exclamation point on every sentence.
This Accord runs good! There are some stains! The front tires are new! The car has 168,000 miles! The paint is fadded!
And people saying their car is “loaded” because it has power steering and brakes. Maybe if this was 1958. No, your Acura isn’t special because it has power windows and locks, lol. Or putting “4-door, automatic” as the only description on a later model Taurus or Impala. Really? I hate all those Impala coupes with manuals, I see them so often!
I was going to make a quip about the Monte Carlo, which at the end of its life was very much an Impala Coupe, but I don’t think the Monte Carlo has ever, in its history, been equipped with a manual from the factory.
Actually, a 3OTT was standard from 1970-75, and 4OTF optional in 1970 and ’71. The brochure for the ’72 emphasized how the Monte was a personal lux car, not a sports car: “Sorry, no four-on-the-floor.”
But then manuals came back for 1978 and ’79 only: the 3OTT was standard equipment for the 231 Buick V6, and the 4OTF was optional with the 305 V8.
W-body Montes never had a stick, but the Lumina Z34 coupe (which /is/ a Monte Carlo in my book) had a 5-speed Getrag also used in other W-bodies.
Plus if it said Dodge, you could paint over the G and make it say Doge
Very pickup. Much hauling.
Such interior. Wow
I’m not a fan of it in real life. I guess it makes it easy for non-truck guys to identify brand.
Reminds me of dad’s 68 gmc shortbox
Ford needs to respond by resurrecting the F150 Nite Edition.
I like this though. Can’t help myself.
So rad.
http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/427/1601/1065800061_large.jpg
Ahh you can buy the decal package today!
http://www.phoenixgraphix.com/ford/9192nite.php
Oh man. I love it. Plus..those wheels!
I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain’t it funny how the night moves
When you just don’t seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in
You’re three years too late TTAC. Ram built a murdered out Ram back in 2013.
https://www.netcarshow.com/dodge/2013-ram_1500_black_express/
Silvy, read the article, they have a paragraph about it.
I will never own a truck or car with black wheels. Yuck! And you can keep the blacked out grill and trim which looks like $hit after a few years.
Wasn’t the murdered out look completely played out five years ago?
I like these ‘special’ murdered out vehicles, its like early warning radar to tell you which people to actively avoid at all costs!
You know from afar there was a chance I would not realize this truck was a RAM. I’m happy “RRRRAAAAMMMMM” is emblazoned over 1/3rds the tailgate, it doesn’t look out of place in the least /s.
It was commonplace throughout the mid-20th century for all manufacturers to stamp their name across the entire tailgate. I don’t see how this is any different.
I think what is pictured above looks clownish and juvenile, you are welcome to disagree.
That’s a fair opinion, but what about it makes it clownish and juvenile vs. something like this: https://www.lemonheadpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/classic-1967-Ford-truck-tailgate.jpg
The spacing helps. I’d have to measure it but I’d be curious to know how close in size the “FORD” letters are to their “RAM” counterparts.
I think what bothers me is the fact the word Ram has different meanings and they shouldn’t have used it in the first place, that alone makes it juvenile, imho. I mean do they want you to rear end the truck or what?
You know in the 70s dodge had a package called the Macho PowerWagon, with macho emblazoned on the side.
Given the Power Wagon’s looks, that’s like making Whoopi or Sarah wear a STUPID! shirt.
I’ve never seen a “macho” Power Wagon in the flesh. In the 70’s the local Dodge/Chrysler dealer went bankrupt twice so there was never a consistent supply of vehicles.