When Ram announced that it was bringing back the Hemi V8 to the Ram 1500 lineup, it seemed all but certain (despite the brand’s best attempts at neither confirming nor denying the news) that the TRX would be resurrected also. A recent teaser video added fuel to the fie but it also left some unanswered questions.

Thankfully, the start of the new year all but confirmed our suspicions with Ram confirming it’s indeed bringing back the TRX just in time for the 2027 model year.

Bigger and beefier

At first glance, you would be forgiven if you thought Ram merely dusted the cobwebs off of the outgoing one with the basic exterior styling staying the same except for a new SRT logo in the front grille and an updated T-Rex graphic. The 6.2-liter supercharged V8 wants to play too but it’s now more powerful with the 2027 model now making 777 hp which is a sizable jump up from the outgoing model. It also makes 680 lb-ft of torque which is enough to help the truck make the sprint to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds.

This is also more muscle than the V8 version of the Ford F-150 Raptor and with GM still preferring to sit out of this fight, the Ram is once again the king of the horsepower mountain in off-road trucks (unless Ford chooses to respond.) An eight-speed automatic continues to be he lone transmission available and the same off-road specs the outgoing one had are also applied too.

The interior is also largely carried over but continues to be a comfortable place to spend time in when out on the trails as well as the open road.

How much?

With the sheer amount of performance and standard equipment you have on hand, it should come as no surprise that the TRX has a base price of $102,290 (look for local dealer markups to add some meat to that in time) and there’s already a special edition called the Bloodshot Night Edition.

The Bloodshot gets dual-tone black and red paintwork, carbon fiber accents, and beadlock wheels. Ram didn’t release pricing for that one but the pricing ladder seemingly solves a small problem for Ram and that’s in regards to the inline powered RHO.

The RHO was originally supposed to be a replacement for the TRX before Ram and Stellantis abandoned that plan when Carlos Tavares resigned. The RHO will stick around for the foreseeable future as a bottom rung model in the high performance Ram lineup with those models starting at $73,340. It remains to be seen how long that will be the case and there’s precedent in play too.

The old Aston Martin DB7 was originally powered by an inline engine with the latter addition of the V12 originally being optional. Instead,the V12 ended up outselling the smaller engine completely and Aston pitched it for the V12 moving forward. This might also happen with the RHO due to more customers moving towards the V8-powered TRX and this includes some who would’ve otherwise bought the RHO but only time will tell.