You have to love the cheekiness of the designers and engineers at Fiat-Chrysler. Not convinced? Pop the hood and remove the plastic engine cover and you’ll find another easter egg molded into the plastic liner: a T-Rex with a dead Velociraptor in it’s jaws. It’s a scaled comparison of a human being, the Ram TRX, a huge Tyrannosaurus Rex, and a rather small Velociraptor, which is noted “actual size.” OUCH.
Open the center console and if you look closely, you’ll notice an easter egg molded into the mat at the bottom of the cubby. And then they drove it until it broke, improved it, and pushed it even harder.Īnd they’re not shy about the fact that they were gunning for the Ford Raptor. They gave it a luxurious and wildly spacious interior with nearly every creature comfort and amenity you could ask for. They started with the capable Ram 1500 chassis, added one of the most impressive engines in the world (Hellcat, anyone?), installed one of the most capable full-time four-wheel drive systems in the world, added Bilstein remote-reservoir off-road racing shocks that provide incredible amounts of travel and active bump absorption, a huge 33-gallon fuel tank, and added monster brakes to stop the 3-ton truck with ease. It’s so impressive that the last time Editor Sellmeijer visited the US, the Raptor was the only vehicle he even considered to request as a loan as he explored the classic car gathering at Monterey in California.įiat-Chrysler took note of that and the engineers, designers, and project managers decided it was time to take Ford down a peg. I mean, they named it after the smartest, meanest, most capable dinosaur in Jurassic Park so it has to be fairly awesome. In a way, it rewrote the rules on what pickups could be and redefined what a “sport truck” was. That target truck was the Ford Raptor – the biggest, most capable, most sporting pickup ever designed and produced at that point. They looked around for the baddest pickup on the market, analyzed it’s abilities and it’s strengths and it’s weaknesses, and then designed the Hellcat-Ram to beat it in every way.
The boys at Ram were much smarter about it than that. Buuuuuuut….they also went a lot further than I anticipated. When we first heard that Ram was working on a Hellcat-powered pickup, we figured they’d cram the Hellcat 6.2L supercharged Hemi V8 under the hood, give it some massive tires, a nice interior, and maybe a couple trick body additions to make it look sportier, and release it as “The Fastest Pickup in the World!”. We don’t review many pickups around here at GT Spirit so note that we’re making an exception for this one. It does everything, it goes anywhere, and it simply LOOKS completely badass while doing it. The new Ram 1500 TRX is simply the most badass pick-up truck on the planet.
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