- Hey guys, Dustin with Custom Offsets here.
Today I'm joined by Rainey.
- Let's do it.
- And we are back with another reacting video.
This time, I feel like we've done a lot of these, by the way
in the last couple of weeks,
but COVID's kind of pushed all of the cool truck stuff
to like the last three or four weeks.
- Everyone's waiting until the last half of the year
'cause they were like, Oh, COVID will be over and it's not.
So everyone's just like, we'll just dump everything now.
- Surprise. Here's all the stuff we had.
So anyway, we're back.
Today we're going to be taking a look
at the 2021 Ram 1500 TRX.
So I'm pretty excited about this one.
I have not watched any of this yet
because I tried to watch it yesterday
and Nate actually pretty much slammed my laptop shut
and said "no, you have to watch this on a video."
So here we are. Before we do that though,
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All right.
I get it, T-Rex, cause TRX, I see what they did there.
- So we'll go through the lineage quick.
That's what they do.
- Ooh, hello.
- The Li'l Red Express was the pinnacle of performance
in its day, rated the quickest--
- These things were super cool.
You don't see a lot of them anymore.
- Probably 'cause they were rusted out,
that's from a Dodge fan.
- More than likely.
- Don't see those either.
- The SRT 10s, no, and they're getting really cheap,
the ones that are still out there.
- Poor man's Viper.
- Yeah, they're like super slept on.
Guys don't really talk about them a whole lot,
but that's a lot of HPs for not a lot of money.
- Today, we push that performance even further
to a place that other trucks only dream of.
- Except for Ford.
- (laughs) Yikes.
- Ford's been there.
- Yikes.
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- Wow.
- So the first thing that I noticed is just the,
like the front end is super aggressive,
but still retains the whole overall shape
of the fifth gen Ram, which I'm a huge fan of.
- They just made it more aggressive with the black,
with the scoop in the grill,
and then the one on the top of the hood.
- Yeah, absolutely.
OLED taillights.
- Yup.
- I'm a sucker for OLED taillights.
So it's super cool to see that that's where
most of the industry is going now.
- Yeah, and I even like they put like the fancy headlights
and stuff in too.
- Yeah, it's nice to not see like the base model.
- Halogen headlights.
- 1500 TRX.
- I wonder what Banker thinks of this thing.
I know how much he loves the Ram Rebel by itself.
- Wow.
- The all new Ram 1500 TRX is by far the quickest.
- That's a bold statement, quickest, fastest,
most powerful truck in the world.
- Well, he figures for, you know,
like a new release gas truck, I mean, it definitely is.
- Zero to 60 at 4.5 seconds, 118 miles an hour.
- It does a quarter in 11, 11.8.
- Oh Jesus. - Yes.
- 702 horsepower and 650 foot pounds of torque. Damn.
- I'm just curious if they put the six speed
or the eight, I think it's an eight speed
or a 10 speed behind it, 'cause if you have a 10 speed,
to be fun because you have all those
different gears to choose from.
- Yeah, you can really dial in that torque band then
when you need it, you know.
I hope they put a 10 speed in it.
- The funny thing that I was watching this guy,
he's very like (grunts) big.
- He's a very Mopar guy, you know?
- Yeah, that's that's Dodge Hellcat right there.
- For real. - That's him himself.
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Big and bold and red, he's wide-bodied.
- You're absolutely correct though.
It's amazing to me how accurate that statement is.
- That guy should be selling tanks and not TRXs.
- For real.
I mean to those guys, that's basically as a tank, you know?
- That's a big truck. - Yeah. It is.
It looks really good.
I saw in the background, they had it,
they had a black one that looks super sharp.
Composite fenders, okay.
Steel box outers,
air curtains for maximum air flow and minimum drag.
- I would assume the air curtains are their fender flares,
but like they just really don't touch base on it,
- But they call them air curtains, I guess.
- Beats me.
- now the LED clearance lamps,
which are required for vehicles over 80 inches wide.
- Oh, I didn't realize.
Okay, so that's what you were talking about
by that they were required.
I didn't realize that was a legal DOT requirement
to have those three markers.
- Just like the dually is the rain,
or the Raptor has it as well.
- Yup.
- Our 18 by nine inch aluminum wheels
with a bead-lock ready option.
- Bead-lock ready from the factory.
- Yup.
- So I assume that's like similar to like
what Ford does with the Raptor, right?
Where it's like, they give you the ring
with the bolts and you have to install it on your own
'cause it's not DOT certified.
- Which I get, but I don't, I don't know.
Just keep the bead locks.
- Off-road sidesteps are factory installed, rock rails.
Okay. That's dope. The spare tire carrier up in the back.
- So they have that one or they have the dual one.
I don't know if they carry it.
If they do, like if they give you the dual,
but then in the video they have one
where the guy has dual wheels in the back.
- Bedside graphics too.
So there that's another thing that like Ford did
with the Raptor, is they put that appearance package
as a factory option, which is super cool.
- Hydro blue, granite crystal, billet silver,
diamond black crystal, and bright white.
- Oh, I liked that satin one that they were going with.
- That white, ooh.
- See the problem with the white though is there's a lot
of black plastic throughout the whole front end.
So I feel like you might lose like the white with black.
It's kind of a horse piece.
- That's hot too, in that like gray.
- Yeah. That'd be the color I'd get if I were to get one.
- Look at that interior, the stitching and the dash pad.
- They basically took a Limited interior
and crammed it into a lower model truck,
and then put a bunch of power into it
and a bunch of like aftermarket suspension.
- Do you see, like I like how they shifted the shift lever.
Like he was banging gears,
but it's an automatic transmission.
- Probably throw it in park for the corners.
But it's cool 'cause you get
the huge Ram screen in the dash.
- Yeah, the massive like 12.7 or something,
right, it's gigantic.
It's a whole (bleep) iPad tucked into the dash.
- It's bigger than my iPad pro, so I mean.
- That's what I'm saying.
- You can add also red detailing
and carbon fiber trim elements as well.
- Carbon fiber even, look at that.
- See, you look at a TRX and you're like, okay,
it's going to have like a basic interior.
No, it's got like the same interior
as your high end trucks do, which is awesome.
- Yeah, that's hot, and that stitching in the seats
just sets it off, you know with the red trim line
and the double stitch.
- And then you have the carbon fiber on like the push start
and stuff and the steering wheel inlays.
Like it's a lot going on,
but it's also very subtle and it's all one color.
So it actually kind of fits really well.
And it's nice too, 'cause they got rid of that goofy dial,
the volume knob to shift in and out of the gear.
- Yeah, it's super cool.
Foo Fighters on the radio in the launch video.
That's it I'm sold. Let's go get one.
- It's almost like Apple put it on their iTunes for free.
- Reaction timer, quarter mile timer,
zero to 60 and one hundred
right in the performance pages, Dyno page.
So I'm interested how they calculate that.
- Oh, just probably computer simulated
based on how much throttle input you put in.
- I would assume.
- Oh, you get two, 'cause they had their heads up display
and it shows you speed limit, your speed,
and then I think time 'til destination.
- Digital rear view mirror.
- It's all like small options,
like digital rear view mirror, no one really cares,
but if you've ever driven a truck with a digital rear view,
it's so nice. - Oh yeah.
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- I like how their launch video is them just
flexing the truck, you know?
Massive sunroof on there too, holy cow.
- Yeah, dual row sunroof.
Like I said, it's all the small things.
Like why would you need a sunroof on a truck?
Why don't you need to have one?
- 'Cause it's awesome to have one, yeah.
- Right, I will say though, like the one thing I noticed
watching this was this truck rides very, very stiff
when it was doing that obstacle course.
But I also think it's because it's more meant for like
actually going out and bashing, moreso than rock crawling.
- Yeah, I mean, it's like a Raptor, right?
It's a desert truck where it's made to go screaming
across the desert at King of Hammers at 85 miles an hour.
- So you're like, you know,
the Raptor comes with those are the Fox shocks.
This thing comes with Bilstein's I would assume
custom engineered for this entire truck, which is awesome.
- Nitro shocks with remote ressies. So that's super cool.
- And you get 13 inches of travel up front, 14 in the rear.
So you actually get some pretty stout travel
out of a factory warranty truck.
- Just shy of 12 inches of ground clearance,
- Like 32 inches of water in a stock-height truck
is right on par with a Bronco though,
the Bronco did three feet as well.
- That's crazy to me.
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- But other than that, I wouldn't buy a fifth gen Ram,
but I'd buy like a 2500 Ram.
But this, for the 1500s is like, you got the power,
you have the good suspension, it looks good.
Do you have like an actual quality interior?
Like it's a Limited interior, a Laramie,
and I believe the price starts 69, 70,000, which--
- $90,000 is what I saw yesterday.
- Really?
- 89,997.
- But you figure, you're getting 700 horsepower,
with the warranty, you get your long travel suspension,
like, that's another thing, the paddle shifters.
First trucks with paddle shifters, I believe,
at least from the Ram lineup.
Like they're not going to be fantastic,
but like sliding paddle shifters,
rather than having to go like this when you're off-roading,
having both hands on the wheel will be super nice.
- Especially when you're, again,
if you're ripping it across the desert,
if you're creeping over rocks, it's not a big deal,
but like that, full send through the desert.
You're going to want to be able just to tick through gears.
- Right, it's cool too 'cause Ram, right,
they've put a lot of R and D into this
and they've put in the hours like testing it.
Nope. No one knew about it.
- Yeah, it was rumored forever.
- As far as I remember. Yeah.
But it was like, Oh yeah, Ford's making a new Bronco,
everyone knew the Broc was coming.
And then yesterday Ram just like
"just so you guys know."
- Here's the 702 horsepower,
650 pound feet of torque monstrosity
that we just sort of like, here you go.
- Factory warranty, 35s, like cool add-ons.
So there it is. Wow.
I will give him this. Like the new Raptor looks great.
Comes with a V-6.
Yeah. It makes more power, don't care, still want a V-8.
If you're buying a truck, aside from a Cummins,
you want a V-8.
This makes 705 horsepower, 702,
it comes with a supercharger.
Like, and it's a well known motor, which is the best part.
I mean, a lot of people were putting underdrive pulleys
on it and you know, minor, minor upgrades, better tuning.
I bet you that thing will touch 800 all day.
- [Dustin] Oh, easy.
- Now the question is can that transmission handle it?
- Correct, to me, this is the first time someone
has really truly competed with the Raptor in that market.
I'm super excited, it'll be interesting to see
what happens with that one.
So there's our take on the 2021 Ram 1500 Rebel TRX.
I think that's what it's called, just the TRX.
- [Rainey] I think it's just the TRX.
- Either way. Really cool.
What do you think about it?
Let us know down in the comment section below,
and remember if you need wheels,
tires or suspension for your new TRX or your Ram 1500
or literally any other truck, we have those,
you can find those at CustomOffselts.com
and with that, we're out.
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