![]() ![]() Much has been done underneath, the front axle shifted 20 millimetres forward to accommodate the monster truck wheels and their 325/65/R18 knobblies. And so, along with a 14.7m turning circle, it’s a menace in most car parks. It’s the one thing the Ram 1500 didn’t really need any more of but TRX bits add over 200mm to the truck’s overall girth, with the composite flares encasing the 150mm increase in track width. They say it has an ‘impossibly wide, muscular body’. Limiting its ultimate speed, the TRX pushes a lot of wind with a 0.489 coefficient of drag.īut drag racing really isn’t its thing, as it’s built for off-track excursions. There’s even a launch control function, the TRX said to do the quarter mile in 12.9s, which is not far behind a Mustang GT. There’s so much torque it’s hard to stall it up on the brake for a quick getaway, as it just wants to break free. Backed by a beefed-up eight-speed auto, it’s enough to send the three-tonne TRX to 100km/h in 4.4sec. There’s the V8, the supercharger squeezing 702 horsepower (523kW) and 882Nm of torque from the 6.2-litre Hemi. It’s some $90k more expensive than the 1500 Limited, but the list of TRX specifics is lengthy. It’s a modern day General Lee for the good ol’ boys, but don’t ask for a certain flag decal on the roof. For the TRX is made to do big, lurid skids and take to the air. ![]() A shame we don’t have many deserts here, yet, but this will also devour farm paddocks, back blocks and forestry roads. Farmers and foresters are the best TRX candidates, for they have the land to let this predator roam, inspired as it is by ‘desert racers’. But we are sure that somewhere out there buyers will find a use for it, even if it is just a flex in the face of farm-gate emissions schemes. It elicits equal amounts of admiration and disdain from the public is such a thing really necessary? Of course not. And let’s not forget the arresting visuals. There’s the price, $250 large, the horses, all 702 them, and the noise, a cacophony of blower whine and exhaust explosions competing for your attention. Who knew anyone needed a bigger, more expensive, more ravenous, raucous and outrageous Ram 1500? That’s the Ram TRX for you it’s excess on wheels. They were among the last of the terrible lizards to roam the Earth during the late Cretaceous period, just prior to the big extinction event. It’s called the apex predator of the truck world, and the Ram TRX has more than a few similarities to T. ![]()
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