Production Ram Rebel TRX Said To Arrive For 2018
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A production version of the 6.2-liter Hellcat V8 powered Ram Rebel TRX Concept will debut sometime late this year, according to Car & Driver.
The Rebel TRX Concept was first shown at the Texas State Fair last September. Designed as an answer to the Ford Raptor, the truck features a 575 horsepower version of Dodge’s Hellcat V8, Dana 60 axles, beadlock wheels, 37-inch tires, performance shocks and bolstered seats with six-point harnesses, among much more. It’s a a desert racer’s dream, essentially.
We weren’t sure if cash-strapped Fiat Chrysler would have the means to put the specialized Rebel TRX into production, but if Car & Driver is to be believed, the automaker is pretty serious about getting it in dealerships. The magazine tells us to “look for it at the end of the year with an opening price of $55,000,” and we’ll be doing just that. This is a product Ram fans would do unspeakable things to have in their driveway.
If the Rebel TRX did hit the shelves, it would be the most powerful production pickup truck of all time. Ford is currently the pickup truck horsepower king with its 450 horsepower F-150 Raptor, but never the ones to be outdone, we’re sure FCA would try and embarass its rivals with something much more potent than what they’re offering – just like it did with the Dodge Challenger and Charger Hellcat.
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I saw this truck up close at the Texas State Fair.It was a amazing truck,to see that level of Ram Truck division engineering design, was brilliant to say the least.I would think Ram Truck division would sell every one of them. The rear axle assembly a DynaTrac Pro 60 is one of the finest axles built for off-roading and racing. The 6.2L Hemi supercharged if programmed right with the ZF 8 speed or Chrysler version,could produce a very good MPG,that would beat Ford’s 2nd generation 3.5L EcoBoost in terms of combine MPG.FCA already said that it was going to run Warren truck plant with the current generation RAM 1500 till inventory builds.Knowing that this would allow the TRX Rebel to be built on that assembly because production levels of 1500 would be lower to allow for this truck to be built.One thing that I noticed as well was that Ram Trucks website now shows on the front page of the website down at the lower corner of the page it has a header that says Future Models 2017 Ram Powerwagon and then the next one is the Rebel TRX. That was not there last week when I looked.It had always been on the Special Edition page but was last and it only said ‘Concept” and had a email sign up for future news on this product.So maybe Car and Driver is on to something here…
want to know and be advised on when the availability of the Rebel TRX so I can purchase one.
Believe me it will be “the shot that was heard around the world”.I also believe it will be built at the Warren’s truck plant. As you might know Warren will continue to build the current generation Ram 1500 well into if not all of 2018.This truck will be a limited build for 2018,so most will get built for dealership’s.With a few luckly people being able to build and buy at the dealership without mark up.Car and Driver is quoted as saying a base of 55,000 dallors.
Yes I am interested in buying the trx rebel . Could you please keep me updated on when it is coming available.
I would also like to be notified of production release dates I am also interested in purchasing a Rebel trx! Thanks
Please notify me of production and release dates.
I would be happy to help you, please feel free to contact us with your detailed information. We are just as excited to see these as you are!
This would be the most amazing production pick up truck in Truck History. Come on Dodge make history and put Ford to shame. I am planning on buying a Raptor in 2018. I would not hesitate to leave Ford and buy the Raptor TRX!!! This Truck would get your numbers back up…
I’m as excited as you are but I’m pretty sure, actually positive, that Dodge is no longer part of Ram. (since 2009). So it’s no longer a Dodge Ram, it’s just a Ram.
Also Rebel TRX, not Raptor TRX.
I would also like to be notified of production release dates.
Currently Ram Truck website confirms this truck being the next concept to go into production.The problem with being updated as to when orders will be taken just directs to Ram 1500 web page.
If the following holds, where do I sign?
– 575 HP de-tuned Hellcat variant
– same or more or less similar features appearance as the concept
– $55,000 start price
When is this truck finally going to be released? This is what I am waiting to spend some money on. I am not buying anything till they finally confirm that they are or are not going to sell this truck.
All rumors hint at a late 2017 market entry. I don’t want to buy a vehicle in winter, so I’ll wait until spring.
If you can stick it out for a few moths, your patience should be rewarded.
Please send me product updates on the Ram Rebel TRX. Id like to know as much as possible about the product and I;d like to know as early as possible about order dates. THX
I’m cancelling my plan to buy another Raptor this winter if this comes out. Never owned a Ram but would have to break my cycle of only buying Fords for the TRX. Please hurry up with the production release.
I will trade in my f150 and buy the trx if they build it. Please keep me updated.
want updates
Still no word on the release date and when we can order? I’m still reading late 2017 everywhere but no confirmation or ordering ability…and it’s a week away from September now. There are preordered regular Rams arriving at the dealership here locally in about 2 weeks. Please advise.
I’m now thinking of selling my Raptor and getting the 2018 model. If the TRX is on its way and is very close to the concept, then I will be getting that instead without hesitation. Please keep me posted, thanks!
I was looking at Raptor. I would totally buy this NEW REBEL MODEL!!!! GO DODGE RAM!!!!! Take the #1 spot from Ford!!!
I need that truck
C’mon Ram let us know already if it’s going to be a go. I don’t want to settle for the regular Rebel.
You build it, I’ll buy it.
All the latest chatter I have seen indicates it will not be built. At least not on the current generation Ram line “DS”.
January 2018, the next gen Ram is scheduled to be unveiled at the Detroit auto show. Those models are expected to be available around May as 2019 model year trucks. The following year at the 2019 auto show, FCA is expected to reveal their off-road dedicated next gen truck – that is as close to the TRX as we are likely to ever see. That also lines up with the rumored 18-24 months gap between concept and production.
I’m currently in (e-mail) communications with Jhan Dolphin of Prefix (http://www.prefix.com) who makes the Ram based Minotaur trying to compel them to offer a TRX like kit. It can be done. However, they need volume interest to spread load the development costs otherwise you’re looking at $100,000 or so each.
I created a Facebook page for the Ram Rebel TRX to discuss interest, news, and configuration details. It is an open group so I add anyone who seeks to join.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/1812830642341407?ref=bookmarks
I want to buy one
Just couldn’t pull the trigger on a raptor purchase this year; $90k for a $65k truck! If this truck doesnt follow suite with a 30-40% markup I’m totally in!!
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FCA, are you paying attention?
I wish FCA would just tell us when they are going to build this truck. I would buy one right now if it were available.
On another thread, I begged for an update, and fcauthority replied that they could reach out to contacts at FCA, but already know the response they’re likely to get, “We don’t comment on future product.”
Though, at this point, I don’t know that it is still considered “future product” given that it is no longer listed under “UPCOMING VEHICLES” as they have changed it to “CONCEPT VEHICLES”, as of Sept, 15 or thereabouts.
Other sources now predict it won’t be made at all (some design elements will be woven into the next gen Ram models of less exotic offerings), or the decision to make something similar won’t happen until 2019-2020 (meaning, if they do green light the project, looking 2021 or later before it reaches production).
People are getting frustrated and tired of waiting. Interest is beginning to wane.
Another theory – the whole thing was a publicity stunt meant to steal headlines from Ford when they attempted to announce the new Raptor power plant.
Or, it could be, they had every intention of making it, but realized they were already struggling to keep pace with production demand for Hellcat Challengers, Chargers, and the Trackhawk and simply would not be able to satisfy demand with all that going on and people going ballistic over a Hellcat truck.
We don’t know, because they aren’t talking.
Thank you for your efforts. I just don’t get FCA. How does it make sense to get people excited about a beast of a truck and not follow through. Now everyone will just settle and go to the lame Ford Raptor route. I look over internet several times a day for new information about TRX availability. Heck even if they would just tell us maybe 2021 build date then we could just move on.
Thanks again for the update.
Thank you for your efforts. I just don’t get FCA. How does it make sense to get people excited about a beast of a truck and not follow through. Now everyone will just settle and go to the lame Ford Raptor route. Heck even if they would just tell us it will be a later build date then we could just move on.
Thanks again for the update.
FCA are you listening?? Give us something as in yes we will build this truck and no we won’t. I want this truck but if you aren’t going to build it then just say it.
For anyone interested in ongoing discussion, check my Facebook group:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/1812830642341407
It is an open group and I accept all interested parties. I generally scour the net daily (so you don’t have to).
I already have dozens of links, quotes, references, and no short supply of my own analysis posted in the group. Feel free to join and inform as many others as possible. Also continue to check, post, comment here and elsewhere so the community at large does not lose touch with the base of support.
The tfltruck video on the TRX has over one million views, 10,000 likes and close to 4,000 comments.
I don’t even like trucks, I’m an SUV guy. I was looking into a Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk. That was about the time I started looking into the Dodge Demon and became aware of the Trackhawk. At some point, I stumbled across the Ram Rebel TRX and have been obsessed with it ever since.
No other vehicle even eclipses my interest in this thing.
People getting impatient:
https://m.ebay.com/itm/2017-Ram-1500-TRX-Rebel-Whipple-Supercharger-/322812675710
Have a rebel now but would love to have the trx
Take good care of that Rebel.
You might be able to trade it in for some variant of the TRX in a couple years.
Let me know when this is available!!!!!! I want it
Start saving your cash folks.
It
Is
Coming
“All I am going to say is there will be an offroad truck that will put the final nail in the coffin of the F-150… it won’t be the standard Rebel (which should be an amazing package especially with the next generation air suspension) but it will be two years down the road.”
– redriderbob
“Ditto. I have not heard as much as bob, but from what I gather there is a “skunkworks” truck in the works. I am hoping it is a set of fraternal twins: a Hellcat Ram and an el cheapo 6.4 half ton.”
– Muther
“dakrt99 said: ↑
2020MY? Or two years after launch of DT?”
2021 or 2022.
– redriderbob
“fca could change plans but dude is usually always on the money . Like i said on other post like an rs over there.”
– Av62nv
(regarding redriderbob on allpar.com and the reliability of his statements – not sure what an “rs” is, but it looks good)
That is as good a reliable source as you will get save an official FCA announcement.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your finances.
You have a few years to save up.
But,
It
Is
Coming!
Clyde Cox,
I’ll buy a Rebel TRX also!
I held off buying a regular Rebel this year when I heard the TRX model was coming out this year.
Please let me know when I can buy one.
2020 as a 2021 model year truck at the earliest according to the most reliable unofficial rumors.
I’m surprised Car and Driver (and FCAuthority) have not redacted/updated these articles.
There are five days left in 2017.
Sorry Dreamers. No way they will build this super truck on an old body style. Hopefully after the 2019 re-design they will.
Hello can’t wait to get my hands on the rebel trx I’m holding off from buying another ram so let me know on the up date about it and if not till 2021 then I’ll have to buy another ram till the rebel trx comes out please build it soon,thanks
Staring price point of $55k. Lmao. Thats funny. The TrackHawk which is a Hellcat powered Jeep GC starts at $85K without mark up. This truck has a lot more to it than the GC so I don’t see a price tag anywhere close to $55k; more like $90K. Also its the start of 2018 so guess its not coming…
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, HELLO!
Is any body listening?
Can’t eat or sleep; all I think about is the Rebel TRX.
I need a new truck and I refuse, I repeat refuse to buy one until the Rebel TRX comes out as you promised all of uss!
Please make good to your devoted Ram followers!
Who promised anything?
FCA never claimed it was going to be produced. The only official statements made were that it was a feasibility study concept and they went so far as to say they were thinking about it and one executive said he wanted to build it but they were reviewing the financials. No promises were ever made.
That said, insider leaks have rumored a 2020 release as a 2021 model year, but even that is unofficial and could change.
I have two previous ram 1500 crew cabs big hors and love the them,lease will be up on my newest one but not buying another one till the ram trx 1500 rebel comes out I hope in 2018 like they promise if it don’t then I’m buying the ford raptor I really don’t want to do that but I’m waiting so hurry up please an deliver us the badest truck of all the ram trx rebel 1500 concept truck,thank you.
Who promised anything?
FCA never claimed it was going to be produced. The only official statements made were that it was a feasibility study concept and they went so far as to say they were thinking about it and one executive said he wanted to build it but they were reviewing the financials. No promises were ever made.
That said, insider leaks have rumored a 2020 release as a 2021 model year, but even that is unofficial and could change.
The TRX production release is a couple years out, at least, and we don’t know what it will look like, how many features from the concept will make production, nor how expensive it will be (I think you can rule out the $55,000 rumor – Hellcats go for at least $64,000 and the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk starts at around $85,000; consider the standard Rebel with a 5.7L Hemi and 4WD already goes for $50,000 and the Hellcat crate engine goes for $20,000 and the $55,000 rumor starts making little sense).
That said, the new 2019 Ram Rebel could be out in a little over a week. Rumor has it, there are many upgrades and it has some styling cues first leaked on the TRX, so give that a look. The 2019 Ram 1500 will be unveiled a week from tomorrow. The Rebel may be making an appearance as well.
For status updates check the Ram Rebel TRX Facebook group:
/groups/1812830642341407 (add that to the end of the Facebook web site address in the address bar).
Also check allpar (dot) com where insiders leak all kinds of news and rumors of a reliable nature.
I own a Nissan Xterra Pro4X and will upgrade to the Ram Rebel TRX. Its off to the sand dunes after I buy this long awaited truck. Please Dodge make me happy for 2018.