Ram’s high-performance 1500 TRX will exit of manufacturing on the finish of this yr.

The swift and highly effective pickup, outfitted with the supercharged 6.2-litre V-8 engine made well-known in Dodge’s Hellcat muscle automobiles, was launched in 2020. It options 702 hp, 650 pound-feet of torque and a 0-to-100-km/h time of 4.5 seconds.

Ram is marking the tip of the TRX’s run with a 2024 Ultimate Version mannequin that is available in eight colours, together with the brand new Delmonico Crimson, Night time Edge Blue and Harvest Dawn. The truck prices $153,065 with transport.

Stellantis stated the Ultimate Version affords exclusives comparable to satin titanium bead lock-capable wheels with an identical 6.2-litre hood badge and mattress decal. The inside has patina stitching on the dashboard, door panels and seats, in addition to an embroidered TRX seat again emblem. Simply 4,000 shall be bought worldwide.

The concept for the TRX — a play on “T. rex” — got here from former Fiat Chrysler Cars CEO Mike Manley when he oversaw Ram. Manley challenged designers and engineers to construct a truck that would drive at sustained speeds of greater than 100 mph off-road.

“The introduction of the Ram 1500 TRX ushered in a big shift in off-road efficiency vans with a halo impact that may final for years to return,” Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis stated in an announcement. “This present chapter in Ram’s high-performance vans is coming to an in depth, but it surely’s not the tip of TRX’s story.”

Kuniskis stated the corporate would clarify that remark “at a later date.”

The TRX continued a practice of blazing pickups from FCA and its predecessors.

Karl Brauer, government analyst at iSeeCars, stated in a 2020 interview that Dodge’s Li’l Crimson Categorical pickup from the late Seventies “was faster than the Corvette on the time, and it was faster than the Pontiac Firebird.”

Within the early 2000s, the automaker pushed the envelope once more with the Dodge Ram SRT-10, a pickup outfitted with a 500-hp V-10 engine that debuted for the 2004 mannequin yr. The automaker referred to as the SRT-10 the “Viper of pickup vans” and earned a Guinness World Information entry for “world’s quickest manufacturing pickup truck.”