The huge 12-inch touchscreen dominates the center of the dashboard and offers great graphics and loads of features. Backseat passengers also get a pretty comfortable bench seat and generous legroom. They’re also heated and cooled, but they sadly don’t offer a massage feature. The seats are quite adjustable and comfortable. RAM went the extra mile with this treatment, even wrapping the grab/”oh shit” handles in suede. It just feels good to be in a TRX! The suede touchpoints feel sporty and luxurious at the same point. The TRX interior offers a great mix of materials and special attention to the touchpoints. The big tires, big wheel travel, and crazy-impressive Bilstein shocks on the TRX are perfectly suited for soaking up the rocky, whooped-out paths all over the Cinders.Ĭombine those attributes with big horsepower, smart driving modes, and impressive comfort, and you have the recipe for a really good day of off-road adventuring - at way higher speeds than any other stock vehicle is capable of. Many a vehicle has been stuck in the bottom of this crater, but not the TRX. It’s way steeper and looser than it looks. Powering up and out of the volcanic crater. It’s also a really unique landscape that suits the big, powerful TRX perfectly.
The Cinders, as it’s known, is the only area in Arizona where you can free-range off-road without worrying about staying on designated routes. These dormant volcanoes last erupted about 900 years ago and have since been slowly eroding and breaking down. The hills were on the sides, and inside of, cinder cones.
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The rest of the day was full of fast gravel, super steep hills, windy, rocky two-track, and whooped-out, deep, loose cinder. Volcano DrivingĪfter a short highway jaunt where the TRX easily went way too quick, we hopped off the pavement and aired down. My latest TRX driving adventure was in the Cinder Hills OHV area outside Flagstaff, Ariz. Since then, the truck has been selling quickly across the world, and I’ve had a few more opportunities to get behind the wheel again. I wrote a first drive review about the RAM 1500 TRX about a year ago before it was available to the public. Oh yeah, and it will set you back way north of the $70,000 starting price, quite possibly north of $100,000 with current crazy dealer “market adjustment” fees. It also doesn’t have 2WD mode, which means it’s a lot harder to drift on pavement and guzzles premium dino juice quite quickly. For starters, it’s a massive 88 inches wide (that’s 8 inches wider than a standard RAM 1500). Sure, there are a few drawbacks to the RAM TRX. Wrap all that off-road capability and fun into a super-well-appointed luxury truck, and you have a winner. It’s hard not to be impressed with a truck that packs 702 supercharged ponies under the hood, has 14 inches of suspension travel, 35-inch tires, and driving modes like “Baja” and “launch control” - all from the factory. He came back even more impressed than he already was with this apex predator in the off-road truck world.
Our automotive and off-road driving expert Bryon Dorr got a chance to put the RAM 1500 TRX to the test in a volcanic moonscape outside Flagstaff, Ariz. Home » Motors » Truck » RAM TRX Review: We Drove a Truck in a Volcano
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