Dodge

Take a vehicle with the same engines and drive axles and the automatic has a higher top speed. automatics are also more consistent when launching off the line at races. a nice driver can beat an automatic with a bloke ual transmission as they can apply all the torque faster. the automatic will loose some torque. i read some of the previous answers and say bahhumbug. goto any dragrace track and you will see very few pro-dragracers using stickshifts. now if you are buying a dodge cummins and plan to use it like a work truck i would recommend the bloke ual. hard labor, and i mean like hard work, will destroy an automatic transmission. i lived in the north east of the usa for several years and used to tell folks that plowed to get bloke ual transmissions. we used to repair so bloke y automatic transmissions or replace them from folks how had them in trucks they plowed with. how bloke y semi trucks do you see with automatic transmissions? from personal experience the dodge 2500 with the cummins is an awesome truck. these engines can be brought upto over 600hp for considerably less money then most other engines. had a customer here with a cummins ram, used to skulldrag bloke y a bmw on the dragstrip with his 4x4 automatic diesel !