Ram 1500 TRX monster pickup features raptor-eating imagery to poke at Ford

[Graybeard]

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/ram-1500-trx-ford-raptor-image

By Gary Gastelu | Fox News

Ram wants to eat more than Ford F-150 Raptor’s lunch with its new monster truck. It wants to eat the Raptor.


The Ram 1500 TRX goes on sale in late 2020. (Ram)

The 702-horsepower Ram 1500 TRX, which is set to become the most powerful production pickup in the world later this year, is equipped with a none-too-subtle message aimed it its top off-road rival.

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The TRX, which resurrects an old trim level designation Ram had in its intellectual property files, contains an image hidden under its plastic engine cover that plays off its name’s similarity to the abbreviation for Tyrannosaurus Rex.


The design Easter egg was revealed in video posted by to the YouTube page of Michigan-based off-road truck enthusiast bkhaja89 and shows a T. rex with a raptor dinosaur in its mouth in homage to the climax of the first “Jurassic Park” film.


The $71,690 TRX was designed with a high-performance off-road suspension similar to the Raptors, but its 6.2-liter supercharged V8 is substantially more powerful than the Ford’s 450 horsepower turbocharged V6.


(Ford)

Ford may not be giving up without a fight, however. Rumor has it that the automaker is working on a version of the Raptor powered by a version of the 760-hp supercharged 5.2-liter V8 currently featured in the Mustang Shelby GT500 that goes by the Predator nickname, setting up a battle for the ages. Meanwhile GMC will be launching the 1,000 hp electric HUMMER EV pickup late next year.


Gary Gastelu is FoxNews.com's Automotive Editor covering the car industry and racing. Follow @foxnewsautos

[Lloyd Smale]

i heard that rumor too and if ford does it im sure there not going to waste there time on something that makes less power. There was also a rumor that chev was going to come out with a 2 wheel drive short box standard cab with a super charged corvette motor. Thats what i would have liked to see dodge do. Isnt like im going to run a 80 thousand dollar supercharged 4x4 in the winter salt up here anyway. Or fly through the air over bumps in the woods with one. What would have been cool is a short box standard cab dodge with the all wheel drive that the track hawk cherokee had. Not so much a true 4x4 for the woods but something that hooks up all that power on the street. From what ive been told those track hawks will about detach your retinas out of the hole. How cool would a retro step side short box with that drive train be! Oh well i dont have 80k anyway. If i am ever going to have some kind of a hell cat (and hopefully i will before i die) It will have to be a used one.