Meet The Ram 700: The 1500’s Little Brother

The compact pickup measures just 176.4 inches long, making it substantially smaller than the Ford Ranger (210.8 inches). But since it’s smaller, it needs less power, and in the South American countries where it’s sold, a choice of either a 1.4-liter NA or 1.3-liter turbocharged engine producing 88 horsepower and 109 hp respectively gets things moving. We’d like to imagine that if it reached the U.S. we might get something a little more powerful like maybe the FCA 2.4-liter Tigershark engine used across a number of Fiat and Jeep products. Of course, it might not happen, but there have been whisperings from the Ram camp of a sub-1500 model, and this might be it.