We put the $3,500 fake Ram EV from China to the test to see if it could tow the real thing

We bought a fake Ram EV from China and decided to test it against the real thing.

The idea was to see if the fake Ram could tow the real one.

The result was surprising.

Especially when you remember the truck only costs $3,500

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Is this fake Ram truck worth the money?

For $3,500, you get a Ram that vaguely looks like the real thing, but only if you squint really hard.

Still, it looks okay.

It’s perhaps a bit cartoonish, but – all things considered – we wouldn’t call this a bad-looking car, and it’s effective, too.

We tried using it to tow the real Ram and it managed.

You probably couldn’t tow it up a steep hill but that’s still impressive, especially when you remember the Ram is a heavy vehicle.

Even the lightest model available weighs more than two tons (4,800+ lbs).

Fake vehicles are becoming popular now

Fake copies of popular European and American vehicles are becoming a thing now.

Until not long ago, you could only buy cheap no-name vehicles from China, such as generic e-bikes, motorcycles or trucks.

Now you can buy fake cars, too.

Probably because the people that make these have realized they can somehow get away with it by exploiting some loopholes in the law.

But whatever – the point is, these cars aren’t too bad when you remember what they cost.

Our $3,500 fake Ram could tow a real Ram, and even our fake Range Rover (which is $500 more expensive than the Ram, by the way) isn’t too bad.

It’s fun, and it looks funky.

The only problem is that our fake Range Rover is as slow as a week in jail.

It couldn’t beat the real Range Rover in a drag race, which is unsurprising, but the shocking bit was that the real Range Rover, in reverse, was still much faster than the fake one.

You get what you pay for, after all.