Ram builds a leaner, saner TRX.
As the logo’s up to date 2025 1500 pickup starts flowing into showrooms, Ram detectable a pristine functionality/off-road variant of the prevalent ½-ton truck: The RHO. The Ram 1500 RHO options numerous mechanical and snip upgrades designed to toughen its off-pavement doable.
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2025 Ram 1500 RHO
Logo control needs it understood that the RHO isn’t an instantaneous alternative for the monster TRX, which has been discontinued. Rather, the RHO is a extra mainstream providing, that includes a 6-cylinder engine in lieu of the TRX’s 702-horsepower supercharged V8. The RHO may be considerably more cost effective.
For 2025, the RHO’s 3.0-liter “Hurricane” Top-Output turbocharged 6-cylinder engine is rated at 540 horsepower, and, mated to an 8-speed automated transmission, will boost up from a standstill to 60 mph in simply 4.6 seconds in line with Ram. That’s handiest quite slower than the a lot more robust TRX.
To deal with its immense off-road wheels and tires, the RHO stands a complete 8 inches wider than usual Ram 1500 fashions.
The RHO additionally boasts hands-free semi-autonomous operation on authorized roads. Ram stated the machine can “predictively slow the vehicle down in tight curves, automatically resume control after driver override, and verify that the driver is paying attention to the road.” Ram’s hands-free machine is identical to Ford’s Blue Cruise and Basic Motor’s Tremendous Cruise semi-autonomous merchandise.
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A 14.5-inch touchscreen is housed within the heart console, week the entrance passenger has get admission to to a ten.3-inch touchscreen that accesses the navigation machine amongst alternative operations. The RHO additionally boasts a Harman Kardon audio machine with 19 audio system and a 10-inch subwoofer.
Forming at $71,990, the Ram RHO is priced inline with the similar-mission Chevrolet Silverado 1500 ZR2 ($71,985), and beneath aggressive vehicles together with the Ford F-150 Raptor ($80,970) GMC Sierra AT4X ($81,195), and Toyota Tundra TRD Professional ($73,980.)
Assembled in Sterling Heights, Michigan, the 2025 Ram 1500 RHO is scheduled to reach in showrooms through the 3rd quarter of 2024.
CG Says:
Name us impaired faculty, however we discover it refreshing to look a pristine performance-oriented full-size truck fashion that isn’t fully over the lead, and absurdly priced. Time we predict $70,000 continues to be a dozen of cash to spend for a pickup, there may be some worth right here, and the RHO’s gas financial system must be much better than that of the departed TRX.
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