Ram Puts a Gooseneck Box on the Power Wagon. Imprison the Engineer.
Orders are open for the 2027 Ram 2500 Power Wagon with the Cummins High-Output turbo diesel, and for the first time the Power Wagon diesel can be optioned with fifth-wheel and gooseneck preparation. The front sway bar still unbolts itself for a rock.
The Power Wagon has always made you choose. You gave something up to get the hardware, and every man who has owned one knows exactly what he gave. The choosing was the point. Ram has now opened orders on a Power Wagon with the Cummins High-Output turbo diesel, and for the first time the Power Wagon diesel can be optioned with fifth-wheel and gooseneck preparation.
Ram fits an electronic disconnecting front sway bar, a bar that unbolts itself so the front axle can move. There is now a gooseneck box on the order sheet beside it. Somewhere in Auburn Hills a man checked that box, and in checking it he killed the choosing. Put him in prison. I have already decided how long.
Everything a Power Wagon has always had is still bolted under this one. Lockers front and rear. Skid plates over the tanks. Rock rails, all-terrain tires, and 13.2 inches of daylight underneath. Then the other half. Ram rates it at up to 19,630 pounds of towing. It starts at $89,560, including destination. Orders are open and it reaches dealerships in the third quarter of 2026. Both halves. One truck. Go find the trade in that. You will not.
I explained this to Diane. I said a household could use a truck that does two things at once. There are three cars in my garage that do not do one thing at all, and one has waited since 2019 on a carburetor part from a man in Ohio who stopped answering. Diane said nothing. She looked at the garage door, then at me. Olivia will tell you nobody needs a truck like this. Olivia took the air conditioning out of her own car on purpose.
Twelve years for the man who checked that box. A real prison. And not one hour of it within reach of a hitch.
The VerdictStellantis Media - Ram announced on Aug. 10, 2026, from Auburn Hills, Mich., that orders are now open for the 2027 Ram 2500 Power Wagon equipped with the 6.7-liter Cummins High-Output (H.O.) turbo diesel inline-six engine. Ram states the configuration responds to customer demand and builds on the truck's off-road prowess with up to 2,930 pounds of payload and up to 19,630 pounds of towing capability. Ram's hedge is 'up to' and it travels with both figures. The truck starts at a U.S. MSRP of $89,560, including destination, and will arrive at dealerships in the third quarter of 2026. Orders being open is not the same as being on sale, and no sentence in this column implies a reader can buy one this afternoon. The release makes no claim, in any direction, about whether a Cummins Power Wagon has existed before; the only 'for the first time' in the document attaches to the fifth wheel/gooseneck preparation option and to nothing else, and this magazine asserts no history of the configuration, including by denial. Standard equipment, which the release says the truck shares with its 6.4-liter HEMI V8 counterpart: a segment-exclusive electronic disconnecting front sway bar (Ram's claim), segment-exclusive electronic locking front and rear axles, ELocker, with a passive mechanical anti-slip rear differential (Ram's claim), solid front and rear axles measuring 9.25 inches front and 11.5 inches rear with 38mm rear axle shafts, Bilstein monotube shock absorbers, underbody skid plates for the Diesel Exhaust Fluid tank, fuel tank and transfer case, standard Mopar rock rails, 34-inch all-terrain tires and Hill Descent Control. Powder-coated front and rear steel bumpers deliver a 26.1-degree approach angle and a 26-degree departure angle. Strategic underbody packaging provides 13.2 inches of ground clearance and a 20.6-degree breakover angle. Styling items are a sport-performance hood, functional wheel arch extensions, Power Wagon bedside graphics, Satin Black accents and Cummins badging on the front fenders. Standard technology and safety features are a 12-inch Uconnect 5 touchscreen, an integrated trailer brake controller, ParkView, ParkSense, adaptive cruise control, Blind-spot Monitoring with trailer coverage, Pedestrian Detection and Rear Cross Path detection. The Level 1 Equipment Group adds Bristol leather-trim seating, power-adjustable controls with memory, a nine-speaker Alpine audio system with subwoofer and class-exclusive heated power convex trailer tow mirrors with power-folding, power-telescoping and memory (Ram's claim). The Level 2 Equipment Group adds Natura Plus leather-trim seating, a best-in-class 14.5-inch Uconnect 5 touchscreen (Ram's claim), a segment-exclusive 10.25-inch front passenger interactive display (Ram's claim), a 17-speaker Harman Kardon audio system with subwoofer, a cargo-view camera in the center high-mounted stop lamp, a Mopar spray-in bedliner, a Mopar deployable bed step and selectable Tire Fill Alert. Bristol and Natura Plus are Ram's names for materials nobody at this desk has touched, and they are listed here and never described. Ram cites 1,075 lb.-ft. of base diesel torque, in Ram's words, and offers a Towing Technology Group and a Tow Technology Plus Group. The release gives no HEMI Power Wagon price, payload or tow figure, so no cross-configuration comparison is made or implied anywhere in this column, as a number, a rough figure or a phrase. The release names no competitor and no competitor's figure appears here. The Ram brand block beginning 'Ram offers a full lineup' is boilerplate and is not the release; nothing from it appears in this column, including the 777-horsepower TRX, the Rumble Bee lineup, the three HEMI V8 powertrains, Ram Professional, the Ram 700, Rampage, 1200 or ProMaster, the Stellantis paragraph or the social channel list. No executive is quoted in the document and none is quoted here. Nothing in this piece is a race report. Nobody at this desk has driven this truck, ridden in it, towed with it, disconnected its front sway bar or crawled over anything in it, and nobody from this masthead has been to Auburn Hills.
Editorial disclosure: Ram had a 500-gallon bulk tank of diesel exhaust fluid set behind the Drive Observer building and filled to the neck, for a masthead that owns no diesel, under a printed undertaking to top it off every quarter through 2029 whether or not a drop is ever drawn. Per our strict ethical policy, we do not let this influence our coverage.
