That’s because the TRX is an incredible 2,235 mm wide! Modern trucks are too big to begin with but the TRX is just ridiculous excess. It certainly handles potholes with aplomb although it’s not exactly the ideal city cruiser. It’s just fun to feel the mighty suspension soak up whatever you throw at it. The TRX is one of the few vehicles in which you speed up for rail crossings and speed bumps. Next-gen Ford F-150 Raptor may have V8, 700-plus horsepower.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Two are the trick Bilstein remote reservoirs that you’d expect but the third is mounted horizontally atop the differential housing and its job is to prevent the axle from wrapping forward when you send all 700 Hemi horsepower through it.
You’ll find a semi-floater Dana 60 out back suspended by three shock absorbers. Unlike the stone-age leafs found on the Raptor, the TRX (and all Ram 1500s) use a coil-sprung four-link setup closer to that of a real Baja race truck. The front suspension uses forged aluminum upper and lower links, Bilstein adaptive shocks with remote reservoirs, and electronic jump sensors on each wheel so it can detect when the wheels have left the ground and stiffen the shocks pre-emptively for impact. As mentioned above its track is 15 cm wider than stock and that’s because longer front suspension arms yield 40% more travel than stock at 33 cm. Article content 2021 Ram TRX Photo by Clayton SeamsĪnd the big reason that unskilled boobs such as myself can bomb through trails with ease is the TRX’s magical suspension. Simply put, it’s the coolest feeling a vehicle has ever given me. Then the truck, your butt, and every piece of loose change in the console slaps down with the impact of landing. There’s a brief moment of calm as the final wheel leaves the ground. Push the pedal down as much as you dare and raise your tray table for takeoff. Up ahead the road points up to the horizon lift-off is imminent. Those big Bilsteins are really working now. You brace for impact as huge bumps come at you but you never feel the impact. We’re truly moving now as the massive Dodge flies along the trail. Gradually accompanied by the incessant supercharger whine, the ground speed climbs up to meet the wheel speed. Wheel speed as indicated on the dash surpasses 100 km/h and the truck starts to pull away in a cloud of snow and fury. Huge sprays of snow erupt from all four tires as they claw their way through the snow down to terra firma. The big Hemi spins to six grand and then shifts into second all before I move one metre. I slam my foot on the gas pedal so hard I look like a Rat Fink drawing. After doing this and setting the drivetrain in 4-HI with the rear axle locked, you are ready to party. It also keeps the revs up and turns off stability management.
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Baja mode puts the suspension in its softest setting and full damping for absorbing big bumps. The Ram TRX has several different drive modes and most of them are pretty standard including Sport, Street, Mud, and Snow.
I took the TRX to a straight but very rough trail that was covered in about 15 cm of snow. Finding huge swaths of sandy sun-beaten desert is a bit challenging here in Southern Ontario but I did my very best. (Remember those tires?)īut on-road performance is just the warm-up act here. You’ll reach 160 km/h in just 10.5 seconds and you’ll pass through the quarter mile traps 12.9 seconds later banging up against the truck’s speed limiter of 200 km/h. Use the easily accessible launch mode and all 2,900 kilos of Ram will roar to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds. Installing this engine in the Ram TRX instantly made it the most powerful pickup truck ever made and second place wasn’t even close. The 2.38L supercharger rams 11 psi of boost down the throat of the 6.2L V8 at wide open throttle. In this application it makes 705 hp and 650 lb.-ft. It’s not called a Hellcat in this application because Stellantis would like to have you think that Ram is an entirely different entity than Dodge but believe you me, it is the Hellcat motor. That’s because underhood is the baddest V8 of them all: the Hellcat. You may use a different browser or device to view this in full screen. Full Screen is not supported on this browser version.
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