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Looking at the new supercharged Hemi off-road pickup
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so earlier today Ram really shocked
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everybody when they launched this 575
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Horsepower Supercharged Hemy powerered
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off-road truck the idea is that it can
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go over 100 miles an hour on this kind
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of broken and bumpy terrain that you
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would find off-road with no problem to
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do that it has 13 in of wheel travel at
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each of the four
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wheels and numerous changes to the
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suspension so that it can both handle
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the power and maintain control the
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designers thought about the effect of
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the bumps on the passengers and they
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smoothed it out with clever suspension
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design now this truck has been getting
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tons and tons of fits on allar it is
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really a huge big deal and a hit among
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the
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audience it it's really surprised me I
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haven't seen anything this big since the
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Hellcat was
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introduced now speaking of the Hellcat
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the Hellcat engine is powering this and
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it's normally over 700 h power and you
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may wonder why it's only
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575 and by only 575 that's purely
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compared to the uh Hellcat cars it's
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still greater than the Ford Raptor even
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the newer version that was just
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announced
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today and although Ram hasn't officially
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said why they've limited the power my
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guess is that most of it is to avoid
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breaking the 4x4 system into little
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bits it's hard to find a good transfer
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case that can handle 700
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horsepower and fit it underneath the
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truck and a lot of this truck is still
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stock they've got a lot of the original
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mounting points for the suspension for
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example and most of the body is stock
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with allowances made to to allow for the
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really big tires those are 37in tires on
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there and that 13 in of suspension
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travel so they've done a lot of work to
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fit these features onto the main
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body but they've done it in a way which
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doesn't break the bank they haven't
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created a completely revolutionary new
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truck that requires a new frame and a
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completely new body and would be
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impossible to build at a reasonable
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price this is a concept and I think that
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it really is as they say a test of
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public interest and that we might
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actually see a real truck based on it
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another Dodge Ram
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TRX something that can go up against the
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Raptor and beat it and that would be
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great because the Raptor is a worldwide
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truck for Ford they're selling it in
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China uh they're selling it everywhere
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it's a big brand booster for them and it
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would be good if Ram could take them on
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one to one they've already got the power
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wagon but that really is for different
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purposes than the
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Raptor and they've got the rebel but
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again we're we're talking different
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segments and different uses this would
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go right head to head with the Ford and
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quite probably easily beat
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it one of the nice things about this
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truck is that it was designed to be
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livable for the most part we really
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don't expect that side exhaust built
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into the Rock Rails to make it if it
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goes into production
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form but other than that you can see
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that a lot of effort has been made into
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making this production feasible for the
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most
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part non prohibitive in cost all the
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quite expensive for the
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buyer and street legal
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