Ram Builds a 777-hp Truck That Drives Itself. Give It to Olivia.

Ram built the loudest truck in America and taught it to drive itself.

The 2027 Ram 1500 TRX SRT makes 777 horsepower from a supercharged V8, and Ram calls it the most powerful gas-powered off-road truck ever built. A monument. Then, for the first time, Ram made Hands-Free Active Drive Assist standard, the factory default, so the monument steers itself while the man just sits there. So give the keys to the one driver in America who wanted exactly this. I can see her from my desk.

Ram lists it at $99,995. That is the base. Destination is another two thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars, its own line. The Bloodshot Night package, the war paint, is $9,995 more, its own line again. Ram says the truck gives you more horsepower per dollar than any premium off-road truck. Then Ram deleted the part where you use it.

Ram says it is the only high-performance off-road gas pickup that steers itself hands-free. They built a truck that Ram says tops out at a hundred and eighteen, then arranged for you to touch none of it. Picture the man in the school pickup line. A hundred grand of supercharged fury, horses he will use exactly never, creeping past the crossing guard at four miles an hour while a computer steers and he reads his phone. Olivia will call that progress. Olivia's dream truck drives her.

A V8 like that asks a man for something. Your right foot. Your hands. Ram built the animal and hired a machine to walk it.

So here is my verdict. Ram built a monument to the V8, then hired a computer to spend it, which is to say Ram finally built Olivia Mercer her dream truck. Hers. The loudest engine in America, and it will pass its whole life chauffeuring a woman who removed her own air conditioning on purpose. She will call it progress. She will frame the window sticker. And I have to sit across the newsroom and watch her be right. Send her the truck. She earned every silent mile.