Combine that almost unnatural feeling of speed with the loud supercharger whine and the basso profundo roar coming from the exhaust pipes out back, and it makes for quite the engaging sensory experience. When I jam my right foot into the firewall, the standard four-wheel-drive system pushes me forward with surprising haste - a 4.5-second jaunt to 60 mph isn't quick in the grand scheme of things, but when it's in a crew cab pickup that weighs almost 6,400 pounds, it damn near feels like I'm rewriting mechanical physics. Under the hood is the same 6.2-liter supercharged Hemi V8 as every other Hellcat-based product out there, and in this instance, it's tuned to produce 702 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque. Both trucks also boast a foot or more of suspension travel front and rear, which matters less on the street than it does in the dirt. Ram's also got the advantage in breakover and departure angles (21.9 and 23.5 degrees, respectively) albeit by a few tenths of a degree, while approach angle is equally matched at 30.2 degrees. The TRX can tow 8,100 pounds, a hundo more than the Raptor can muster, and it'll haul 1,310 pounds in the bed, 110 more than the Ford. When it comes to capability, the Raptor and TRX are pretty evenly matched, but the Ram squeaks ahead by slim margins.
Not that my neighbor would dare say anything, because the fat fenders and copious black accents make the truck look like it's ready to beat you up just for looking at it the wrong way. In my quaint, quiet neighborhood, the TRX looms large on my driveway - well, mostly on my driveway, since it's so wide that the passenger-side tires bleed over onto my neighbor's lawn.
The Ram is almost 2 inches wider, about 2.5 inches taller and has 0.3 inches more ground clearance than the Blue Oval's Baja big-boy, the F-150 Raptor. Modern pickup trucks already look like they're chiseled from solid blocks of testosterone, yet somehow the TRX manages to amplify that even further.
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