RAM TRX SRT review

The TRX’s interior is dominated by the excellent 14.5-inch screen front and center, borrowed from the higher-spec versions of the cooking Rams. But there are many new details of note, too. The Performance Pages from the Dodge SRT cars, which allow you to set up the vehicle’s drivetrain and chassis modes, have found their way into the Ram’s system, as has the launch control button.

There’s a configurable head-up display for the first time on any Ram, Jeep-alike cameras everywhere so you can see the extremities of the beast at key moments. And there’s a good old centre-mounted gear lever instead of the rotary gear selector.

The seats are suitably big, comfy and supportive, with heat and cooling on top-spec models. Most of what you’ll find on other versions of the 1500 can be found here, with TRX-specific touches like a number of badges to hammer home what you’re sitting in, while also sporting real carbon fibre accents, leather and suede surfaces, heated and ventilated seats and other thoughtful touches like molle-style panels on the back of the front row seats for equipment mounting.

Heralding the return of the TRX is a special Bloodshot Night edition, which, as the name implies, is a searing red color overlayed with black graphics, red outlines on most badges and even red anodized thread weaved into the thread pattern.

The most important feature of them all though is just how well screwed together the whole thing feels. Even after a day of extreme testing on road and trail, there wasn’t a squeak, rattle or groan from any part of it apart from the driver. Nice.