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The designers talk about creating an off-road monster
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the suspension on this truck is
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phenomenal we're designers we like to go
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extreme we've added uh six point
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harnesses we really wanted to take it to
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the next level and uh and see what else
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we could do to really uh Drive the uh
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the market with off-road leadership and
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really push the edge of the envelope
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everybody that touches a truck on a
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daily basis had a hand in this new TRX
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concept we really challenged uh
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ourselves as well as engineering in to
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get a 37in tire on this truck we've got
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a 3-in wider track per side and then
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we've got a 14-in wide tire as well so
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the Body Works obviously got to get out
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to cover that we've got to um
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accommodate for massive amounts of JS uh
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in the wheel wells um with the tires
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turned with them you know going straight
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you can't be touching anything so that
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is always the hardest part uh there
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there's a lot of stuff that lives in
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that environment down there and we've
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got an 18-in bead lock on this truck a
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rarity in the industry because most of
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them are 17 in as you can see in the
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theme of this truck the TRX there are a
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lot of Rebel uh aesthetic cues while we
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were designing the rebel I can honestly
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say that in the back of a lot of our
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minds we're designers we like to go
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extreme this truck was sort of lurking
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back there hence the the sort of hairy
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chested uh appearance of the front end
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obvious obviously there are requirements
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for the 6.2 L Supercharged motor that we
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have in there that drives some of the
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functionality uh requirements on the
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hood so you'll see a a couple extra
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Scoops and vents on the hood uh both for
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heat extraction and so that this uh
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motor can
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breathe so in order to make a vehicle go
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Offroad at high speed you really need
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more suspension travel so we increased
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the uh suspension to over 13 in of
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travel and we didn't just Center it uh
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the R height about the middle of the
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travel we provided more rebound travel
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meaning more compression travel that's
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not only good for jumping it also helps
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when you're hit when you get those
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high-speed kickers um going across the
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rough terrain because if you don't have
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the suspension travel you can have a
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really bad day the ram exclusive five
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link rear suspension is very similar to
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what you see in off-road racing trucks
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it also has an increased track of more
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than 6 in and that allow you to have
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greater stability as you're going across
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uneven terrain and uh trying to go
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around a turn faster than should be
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physically possible in order to go
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Offroad at high speed you really need to
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have good shock absorbers um so we re
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thought the current package and uh the
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rebel TRX concept is equipped with
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bypass shocks which allow the shock
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absorber to adapt to very severe Terrain
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the power plant for the rebel TRX
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concept is a V8 Hemi with 575 horsepower
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and that power flows through an upgraded
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drivetrain with an 8-speed transmission
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and a rear axle with a selectable Locker
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that's upgraded for the high torque
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loads that you're going to see Offroad
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one of the biggest things from an
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interior standpoint um when you talk
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performance off-road is really the seats
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you really want something that's going
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to hug you uh grip you um when you're
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getting thrashed around we improved the
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bolstering on the upper portion of the
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seat so we really made it kind of
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squeeze your upper shoulders um and then
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uh the second thing which was uh use of
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our Alcantara uh suede uh on the
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interior on the seats right where the
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electronic shifter was on the rest of
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our Ram trucks um we've actually gone in
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there and added a Terrain selector um
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very much specific to what this truck is
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about so it's actually got a little
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graphic of the truck and kind of shows
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in in each of the scenarios we have a a
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normal mode sort of a wet snow kind of
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mode an off-road mode and then a mode we
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call Baja uh for for the really the the
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having going out there and having fun
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mode and then of course there's the
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sound you know this is something that
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nobody else can match and that when you
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hear the new uh Rebel TRX concept you'll
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remember it forever
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