Ram Builds a Blown V8 in the Battery's Year. Sanctify Somebody.

Every man with a microphone will tell you the V8 is dead. The future is a battery in a skateboard, and the noise is over. Ram did not get the memo. Ram just printed a Ram 1500 lineup running seven powertrains and bolted a 777-hp supercharged HEMI® V8 to the top of it. New for 2027. In showrooms now.

That is not a product decision. That is an act of faith. Somebody inside that company signed off on a supercharger in the year everyone else buried the engine, and that somebody belongs on an altar. Canonize him. I mean every word.

Look at what he approved. Three HEMI V8 powertrains, a muscle-truck line, four wearing the name Rumble Bee, and a TRX wearing an SRT badge for the first time. Ram calls the Rumble Bee SRT the most powerful street-performance production V8 pickup ever built, and targets 170 mph. Ram's target, not ours, and nobody here has driven one. I do not care. He built the animal anyway.

Picture the man at the red light. He feels the supercharger before he sees the badge, a whine coming up through the floor. My son Brian will feel nothing. Brian leases a crossover that hums, and the grandchildren ride to school in the hum. Ram even left a cheap way in. The Warlock starts at $52,865 (plus $2,795 destination). I put no price on the SRTs, because Ram did not.

Here is the sentence. Go find him. Somewhere behind a desk sits the man who signed the blower into production, and I want every one of you who still loves the noise to walk in and shake his hand. Do not thank the brand. Thank the man. He put his name on a supercharger in the year the smart money buried the engine, and a country that will not canonize a saint like that does not deserve one. So do it yourselves. Start with the hand.