What we were anxious to test was how well it did in the soft sand and the loose dirt. The TRX sits on 35 inch Goodyear tires, 15 inch wheels, and it’s got about 11 inches of ground clearance with 13 inches of suspension travel. Yeah, it’s built loosely on the Ram 1500 dash.but they went beyond that and created beautiful digital instrument clusters using a slick vertically oriented ipad style touch screen, which you use to run your navigation and all your electronic components. When you’re sitting in the cockpit, it’s apparent that the engineers at FCA really put a lot of time and thought into the dash, and the instrument cluster the way that everything’s laid out. And a lot of the creature comforts that have been developed over the years in the Ram 1500 series. It’s got all of the modern digital amenities that you would expect from a modern vehicle. Everything in this truck has been really cleanly laid out. It’s more like sitting in the cockpit of an F1 fighter jet. This is not your dad’s pickup truck from the 70’s and 80’s. Now the first thing you notice about the TRX when you hop in it, is how nice the interior is. And had a lot of fun shaking this beast down.
At 702 horsepower – the TRX does 0 to 60 in just over four seconds, and it’ll run the quarter mile in an astonishing 12 seconds. And it’s actually the fastest pickup truck ever made. This is the fastest, most powerful truck in its class. But what RAM has done is really elevate the game here. Until now, there’s really only been two big players in the space, the Raptor, and the Toyota Tundra TRD Pro. They even created a custom piece of artwork under the hood to acknowledge that battle. It was designed from the ground up by the folks at FCA, to be the Raptor killer. Essentially, they wanted to create a pre runner style super truck that would go toe to toe with the reigning champion of that category. In 2016 Ram came out with a concept truck that was really built from the ground up to be the answer to the Ford Raptor. Ford enjoyed about seven years of dominance until about four years ago. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 11 years since the introduction of the Ford Raptor – which was the first ultra high performance super truck to be released in America. All photography from 2021 RAM TRX website
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