I don’t know if it’s necessarily a good idea that we have a Hellcat at the end of this summer Ram TRX, but it seems to be happening. Prepare for impact, everyone.
Ram has struggled to find a serious rival to the Ford Raptor, and it looks like work previously done by the rebel named Rebel will go to the TRX. TRX, as in Truck Really eXtreme. Or maybe it’s eXtra cool from This Ride. Total Rage maXter? Trail Recon Xylophone?
The TRX, as a concept, is stupid, because it’s meant to be an offroader, as you can see in the video posted by Ram today:
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But as anyone who’s driven an old hooptie with about 50 horsepower knows, it doesn’t really need that much power to glide across the land. That is the point of driving on earth. A little power goes a long way. If you want to do a gaunt action on the street, that’s where you need power to spin a tire or four.
Furthermore, this modern era of factory off-road specials are built more along the lines of prerunners, Baja rigs, or sand trucks, and these are realms where people want great power. I suppose if your wing becomes flat enough and your energy drink becomes monstrous enough, you need five, six, seven hundred horsepower to play.
If it were me, I’d be looking for the right guidance from the Chevy 454 SS, a street machine truck that looked low and bad and didn’t mess with much else. But I am not the target market!
What really matters to me, I will say, is at what price is the TRX. The Raptor is in the mid-1950s, and the idea of a Hellcat-powered truck for that kind of money borders on a threat to public safety.
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