What's shocking about the massive TRX-it's 3.3 inches taller, 5.9 inches wider, and weighs about 1100 pounds more than the Ram 1500 crew cab on which it's based-is how amazingly well-mannered it is on paved roads. The flat-bottom steering wheel also lets you know this truck is more about sporty performance than hauling gear, although the TRX does have a respectable 1,310-pound max payload and 8,100-pound towing capacity.HIGHS: Mega V-8 thrust, mega V-8 noise, impressive on-road sophistication. The TRX offers such things as heated and cooled seats, a camera-view rear-view mirror, advanced trailer backup steering system, adaptive headlights, and so much more. Hard buttons surrounding the screen and on the steering wheel allow you to more quickly and easily navigate common features while keeping your attention on the road ahead. A center console 12-inch infotainment touchscreen is standard, and offers a huge amount of control over every feature of the truck. It’s the first RAM truck to get a heads up display (HUD), and it gets a large bright one that is super configurable, legible, and unobtrusive. Sure big horsepower and crazy suspension are the headlines, but this truck is packed with the latest tech and luxury features as well. It’s really fun to use the skinny pedal to unleash all those ponies on the rear wheels and get it to slide around! The mode I used the most was Baja mode, as it is the most rear-biased, with up to 80% of torque sent to the rear wheels. A full custom mode lets you configure the truck exactly how you like as well. What I find cool is that you don’t have to guess as to what each mode is actually telling the truck’s computers to do, as you just have to hit the info button in each mode and it will show you the detailed configuration. The TRX offers eight driving modes, each with a cool graphic that pops up on the gauge cluster. Specifically, it doesn’t allow you to over-rev the engine, it keeps the wheels turning at relatively the same speed, opens the T-case, and stays in gear so you can accelerate out of the landing.Īs with all modern off-road vehicles, there are a plethora of computer-controlled driving modes to suit every off-road situation you might encounter. The truck is smart enough to know when it has left terra-firm and it actively prepares for a smooth landing. My favorite off-road feature, although it could be used on-road, is Jump Detection. Big suspension travel, 13-inches front and 14-inches rear, is what allows for this impressive rough terrain performance. I hit some sizable whoops at over 60 mph and the truck ate them like it was going over a freshly paved road. ![]() Combined with the five-link coil suspension set up, with 23.6-inch tall rear spring (the world’s largest production spring), this truck offers rock-solid control at high speeds over nearly any terrain. These shocks are super smart and offer unrivaled dampening from a factory fitted shock. ![]() One of the huge highlights of this truck is the 2.5-inch Bilstein Black Hawk e2 adaptive shocks. There isn’t even a 2WD option on the TRX, as it is always in 4WD. The TRX is 8-inches wider than a RAM 1500, so don’t expect it to fit down a tight trail, or even in many parking spots for that matter. Specifically, it is designed to go off-road in wide-open terrain really fast, while still having solid slow-speed rock crawling credentials. There is little doubt that the RAM TRX has been specifically optimized to perform really well off-road.
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