The engine runs the vehicle but then the speed entirely depends on the push of the vehicle's equipped transmission. Both the manual and the automatic transmissions primarily allow the engine to operate in its narrow range of speeds while providing a wide range of output speeds.

 

An automatic transmission's impressive task is the locking and unlocking of the different set of gears to the output shaft to be able to achieve the various gear ratios. A device used for the possibility of this task is called the planetary gearset. Early models of half-ton Ram 1500s came with a choice of three engines, a V6 and a pair of V8s. Since then either a five-speed manual shift or a four-speed automatic transmission was offered for these engines.

 

 

Then the later versions of Ram 1500s are available in either five-speed manual and automatic transmissions or six-speed manual and automatic transmissions with overdrive and tow/haul mode. Now, there's much more of the push and the speed produced by the quality engines in today's Ram 1500s.