As a part of the advertising marketing campaign for the Ram RHO pickup, the automaker created a three-minute video known as “The Convoy” that lined up a lot of Ram merchandise together with Warlock and Insurgent X trims. As a result of it might take somebody in-the-know to determine all of the Easter eggs and behind-the-scenes secrets and techniques, Jeff Summers, head of promoting at Ram Vehicles, has executed simply that. In a LinkedIn publish, he picks out 20 options of the three-minute clip, such because the customized Baja truck “with Ram DNA” belonging to Baja race winner Rhys Millen, and the 2 KTM bikes chosen to symbolize one in all Ram’s European partnerships. Relating to the latter, Summers is speaking about Ram signing on for a 3rd yr of sponsorship of the Pink Bull KTM Manufacturing unit Racing staff, particularly within the the FIM Motocross World Championship.
Within the vid, one of many bikes wears the race quantity 540, signifying the output of the Ram RHO, a motif repeated on the clock contained in the tent at the start. The opposite KTM does not have any quantity. Summers wrote in his publish that this bike “has a quantity deliberately left clean for the subsequent Ram Excessive HP car with three letters.” Which is as shut as we’re ever going to get to an outright admission that Ram is cooking a truck that may be a correct successor to the TRX.
The LinkedIn publish comes lower than every week after Ram world operations officer Bob Broderdorf defined on the RHO launch that the model is not positioning the RHO as a TRX successor, whereas additionally making clear that Ram has the expertise and experience in-house to construct excessive autos just like the TRX if it needs to, and whereas refusing to substantiate or deny a TRX successor with the required horsepower is within the works. There is not any purpose SRT cannot go mad scientist on the Hurricane the identical method it as soon as did with the Hemi V8; there’s absolutely one other 170 horses in there with the right revisions. Or, with Broderhof having given his blessing to the potential of electrified efficiency vans — however not earlier than Ram will get its bread-and-butter electrified vans out — there’s one other avenue to output that beats the TRX’s 702 hp.
As we wrote in regards to the topic after the RHO launch, “Usually, we might say, ‘Do not get your hopes up.’ However this time, we expect the percentages are good that is within the works.”