SRT is back with the 2027 777HP SRT TRX

[Jimmy N.]

?? yeah that's a hard no on ever using that feature for me.

Can't trust tech from Dodge. They can't even get uconnect stable enough to not crash, and they've been working on that for a decade.

Normally a self driving car, and especially a fun to drive one, wouldn't interest me one bit.

But maybe there's something in it even for me? For example, I could send it out on its own to get the oil warmed up for an oil change. Useful, since I tend to spend more time on maintenance than driving. It could also be helpful for taking action photos of my own vehicle.

Nah. In real life I'd prefer one just like my '21, and even a mere 702 hp is fine, but with the option to delete needless tech and nannies. Hell, I'd pay extra not to have that crap.

 

[Jack_Toepfer]

WTF Jack...yer Way too young to have a bad back...I'll be 73 in a couple of months...and thank God I've never had a back issue ever

When a 1000lb motorcycle throws you to the ground and your back breaks your fall, it doesn't heal. Lower back is full of ruptured discs and neck is full of bulging discs. Happy to be able to walk and turn my head.

 

[HWDan]

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[Jack_Toepfer]

More and more rumors of the street truck coming… sign me up!

 

[Jimmy N.]

https://www.thedrive.com/news/ram-ceo-rules-out-392-v8-single-cab-sport-truck-exclusive

 

[Jack_Toepfer]

https://www.thedrive.com/news/ram-ceo-rules-out-392-v8-single-cab-sport-truck-exclusive

That’s good, because the 6.2 in a mega cab is what I want

 

[Jimmy N.]

That’s good, because the 6.2 in a mega cab is what I want

Jeez. The TRX's bed is already minuscule.

Besides, is the Mega Cab really any longer than the Gen 5 1500's? There's a crapload of space behind the front seats.

 

[Jack_Toepfer]

I’d take a crew. I guess their lack of a crew cab for so many years made me only take the mega seriously. I agree, crew cabs are spacious enough. I still have big kids at home, they aren’t squeezing into an extended, lol.

I guess what I’m really saying is that NOBODY is asking for a 6.4 in a standard cab. Easy for TK to say they aren’t making one. What he didn’t say was “we aren’t putting a hellcat in a 1500”, which is the market.
You think Ford sold a million std cab 4x4 F150s because they were work trucks? No, they sold them because they were ~$40k and ready to party. The 6.4 isn’t going to hang with a Coyote, so skip the aftermarket and use your big dog with a warranty and the kids will come out of the woodwork for this thing. Cleetus just sold his 1500whp TT work truck and I believe is still in the mix for RAMs NASCAR program… they better have a cool truck to market for after the race on Sunday. The TRX isn’t that.

Before I say for sure I’ll take the 6.2CC, I’d like to have selectable 4x4…. Doing burnouts is critical in an SRT product, and I don’t think I could settle for AWD.

 

[06SRT10NR]

I'm one who does want a regular cab, manual transmission, real 4x4 [not this all wheel drive crap] or just rear-wheel drive, without most of the electronic crap, and of course the lighter weight that comes with losing all that waste. won't be a buyer if they're auto trans, self-driving, and/or 4-door only. shocked insurance companies aren't refusing to insure anything "armed" with that hands-off driving junk.
my '06 Reg Cab SRT10 will just have to keep living on, 'til the powers that be extract their heads from their hind ends and build what I want, whether it has a 426, HC, or Viper motor. Keep it simple, with a big motor at a reasonable price, they'll sell just fine. make all the comfort, luxury, electronic stuff, and other unnecessary garbage, optional

 

[2ndgen]

I'm one who does want a regular cab, manual transmission, real 4x4 [not this all wheel drive crap] or just rear-wheel drive, without most of the electronic crap, and of course the lighter weight that comes with losing all that waste. won't be a buyer if they're auto trans, self-driving, and/or 4-door only. shocked insurance companies aren't refusing to insure anything "armed" with that hands-off driving junk.
my '06 Reg Cab SRT10 will just have to keep living on, 'til the powers that be extract their heads from their hind ends and build what I want, whether it has a 426, HC, or Viper motor. Keep it simple, with a big motor at a reasonable price, they'll sell just fine. make all the comfort, luxury, electronic stuff, and other unnecessary garbage, optional

^^^ Optional is key.

I don't understand why they don't just let you option any combination of things you want. A truly comprehensive build-your-own menu.

Every time they bundle stuff, and this goes for most other industries also, you wind up having to get (and pay for) things you don't actually want/need/or care for just to get one or two things you actually do.

However, to make this truly effective they'd have to get the dealers out of the mix and be allowed to do direct sales--or else only allow custom, verified-sold orders. Because dealers ruin the experiment by guessing what they think they can sell and just ordering a bunch of vehicles optioned that way which destroys their data set.

The only way to truly know what options customers actually want would be to let customers decide and choose.
I can almost guarantee you it isn't what anyone--Dodge nor the dealers think it is. They'd probably find out really quickly that at least half a dozen "great features" are things people could care less about and would rather not have or pay for given the choice.

 

[Jimmy N.]

^^^ Optional is key.

However, to make this truly effective they'd have to get the dealers out of the mix and be allowed to do direct sales--or else only allow custom, verified-sold orders..

Why wouldn't it be okay to use the current system?

Largely, all they would need to change is allowing a customer (and dealers) to order options of their liking more individually instead of most things being in packages.

But how many buyers are willing to read through the sales codes and find out exactly what options are available? And then there's the instant gratification factor. Most don't want to wait 2-6 months for an ordered vehicle to show up.

Heck, many can't even fathom searching for a specific vehicle nationwide. "There's nothing close to what I want within 50 miles of here." Also, it seems that quite a few must test drive a vehicle before buying, or at least see it in person.

I sure wouldn't want to be a car salesman, but I have no problems optioning a vehicle to my liking (as closely as possible) over the phone, then go pick it up when it eventually arrives at the dealership. Although, in an ideal world it could be drop shipped. That would save tens of thousands of miles on the tow vehicle and trailer.

 

[2ndgen]

Why wouldn't it be okay to use the current system?

Largely, all they would need to change is allowing a customer (and dealers) to order options of their liking more individually instead of most things being in packages.

But how many buyers are willing to read through the sales codes and find out exactly what options are available? And then there's the instant gratification factor. Most don't want to wait 2-6 months for an ordered vehicle to show up.

Heck, many can't even fathom searching for a specific vehicle nationwide. "There's nothing close to what I want within 50 miles of here." Also, it seems that quite a few must test drive a vehicle before buying, or at least see it in person.

I sure wouldn't want to be a car salesman, but I have no problems optioning a vehicle to my liking (as closely as possible) over the phone, then go pick it up when it eventually arrives at the dealership. Although, in an ideal world it could be drop shipped. That would save tens of thousands of miles on the tow vehicle and trailer.

Why would customers need to know anything about sales codes?
The build and price website already lets you choose items/features just by name and description.
I'm just saying they should split open the bundles and let you pick everything individually if you want to. (They could certainly still offer bundles for simplicity for those that aren't as picky.)
In prior years the build and price website was pretty much worthless, because you'd spend 30 minutes optioning exactly what you want, then click the "buy it" button and it would take you to a generic inventory search of local dealerships that basically discarded everything you just specified... and then say "these models are similar to what you want"... and I'd be left screaming in my head: I didn't spend 30 minutes carefully choosing exactly what I want only to have to settle for something different...!"

 

[Jimmy N.]

Why would customers need to know anything about sales codes?
The build and price website already lets you choose items/features just by name and description.

That may be true for some vehicles, but for others the Build and Price is more of a synopsis. Maybe partially not to scare off customers by offering too many choices. Also to keep the page count low.

I used to try Build and Price, then do a nationwide search (which took time since the radius was only 125 miles or so) in an effort to find what I wanted. Like for you, only "near matches" came up. It was much easier to use AutoTrader, where lots of filters can be applied, for nationwide searches.

Thankfully it's fairly rare that I can't just order a vehicle, but recently I had to find a Hellraisin Challenger (not made since '22) and a Granite Charger Hellcat, obviously not made since '23. Finding a Charger with delivery miles was easy, really lucked out with the Challenger as it had only 178 miles on it

 

[2ndgen]

That may be true for some vehicles, but for others the Build and Price is more of a synopsis. Maybe partially not to scare off customers by offering too many choices. Also to keep the page count low.

I used to try Build and Price, then do a nationwide search (which took time since the radius was only 125 miles or so) in an effort to find what I wanted. Like for you, only "near matches" came up. It was much easier to use AutoTrader, where lots of filters can be applied, for nationwide searches.

Thankfully it's fairly rare that I can't just order a vehicle, but recently I had to find a Hellraisin Challenger (not made since '22) and a Granite Charger Hellcat, obviously not made since '23. Finding a Charger with delivery miles was easy, really lucked out with the Challenger as it had only 178 miles on it

When I bought my HC I spent 3 full days searching every dealership website across the nation to find exactly what I wanted. It was extremely painful. Turns out they all use one of maybe 3 different software systems--with a few rare exceptions that have some custom system. Yet they are not all connected. I had to redo my search in every. single. one of them and then weed through all the merely-similar matches. FFS it's the year 2026--we've had the technology to do better than this for decades. If I punch in exactly what I want it shouldn't be showing me merely "similar" crap. It should be able to go find me exact matches--and if none found offer to submit a custom build order.

 

[Jimmy N.]

Did you use the Dodge site, or AutoTrader, Hemmings, etc., or check out the individual dealers' web sites?

 

[2ndgen]

Did you use the Dodge site, or AutoTrader, Hemmings, etc., or check out the individual dealers' web sites?

I tried several different auto search engines. Then wound up just using each individual dealer site. It was the only way to get accurate results. Everything else was just even worse frustration. Since most dealers used one of I think 3 different systems I learned how to apply the narrowest filter for each system's search to make things go quicker. Got so where as soon as a dealer site popped up I could tell which system it was, enter my search, and know if they had anything at all that might meet my criteria. I used google maps to find and go right to the dealer sites--and just worked my way across the map checking them all. When I was done with the map I had a short list of maybe two dozen HCs that either met or were extremely close to what I wanted. The fact that it took me 3 days to get that list despite our modern technology era is just pitiful. It should have taken me a /single search/--a mere 30 seconds or less. But ultimately I got exactly what I wanted and I've enjoyed the hell out of my HC, so the buying pain has been partly justified.

 

[Jimmy N.]

I don't remember how much time I spent searching, probably about three days, and since it was a I-want-it-now purchase, what was on the lots was what I had to pick from.

It wasn't exactly how I would've ordered one, but close enough. Correct color and gray calipers was great. The stripes I would've never ordered, but now I really like them. Not crazy about the red seatbelts, but hey, it runs just fine with them.

Lucked out with that my dealer could cooperate with the dealership that had the car. Loaded up my '65 Cadillac (my trade) and dropped it off at my dealer. Did the paperwork, then picked up a Jeep (their dealer trade) and headed for my Challenger to be.

There I unloaded the Jeep and the spent considerable time getting the Challenger onto the trailer. The ramps I'd brought were far too short. Yeah, it was a long day, close to 1,000 miles worth, but so well worth it in the end.

 

[2ndgen]

Mine was a similar scenario. I had locked in a super low % loan from a black friday promotion at my credit union. (I think it was 1%) And it was use it or lose it so I went car shopping. Found mine across the country and had it delivered to my front door.