Viper Power Creates Fastest Ram Pickup Ever

In a world of bland trucks, Dodge Rams are known for redefining the full-size pickup market with ground breaking designs. Today, Dodge unveils a ground shaking design with the boldest, baddest and fastest full-size pickup, the new Viper-powered Dodge Ram SRT-10 show truck. A production version of this show truck will appear at a later date.

Just as the all-new 2002 Dodge Ram-and the previous generation Ram introduced in 1994-added a much needed dose of style to the full-size pickup truck market, the Ram SRT-10 brings a massive dose of Viper power with a class-demolishing 500 horsepower and 500 lb.-ft. of torque.

Filling the engine-bay of the Ram SRT-10 is the largest engine in a factory pickup truck - the 8.3-liter V-10 that powers America's ultimate sports car, the all-new 2003 Dodge Viper. The V-10's horsepower rating easily surpasses any other pickup - not to mention virtually every production sports car on the road.

"In the sport truck segment, we might be accused of stacking the deck against the competition," said Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group. "But why not when you have ten aces up your sleeve? We set out to create the boldest, baddest and fastest pickup truck ever, and that is exactly what we have done."



Extreme Performance = PVO

The Dodge Ram SRT-10 is one of three new 'extreme performance' models from the Dodge brand. Along with the all-new Dodge SRT-4 and Viper, which will also carry the SRT-10 name, all three were developed by a newly created entity called Performance Vehicle Operations (PVO). This new group brings together the expertise from Chrysler Group's specialty vehicle, Mopar parts business and motorsports operations, using the same engineers who created the original Dodge Viper and Chrysler Prowler, as well as the NASCAR-winning Dodge Intrepids and Le Mans-winning Vipers.

Leveraging the profitable high-end conversion experience of Mercedes-AMG, PVO has been charged with creating extreme performance vehicles not only for Dodge, but also Jeep® and Chrysler brand product lines. Going forward, PVO will offer low-volume specialty versions of vehicles, as well as unique brand offerings.

"Up until now, no U.S. automaker has truly integrated its motorsports and high-performance vehicle operations," said Jim Schroer, Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. "Take the great high-performance engineering expertise-throw in a bit of counsel from our COO, Wolfgang Bernhard, who has great experience with AMG-and we have a winning combination for those who truly want ultimate performance vehicles."

 

I thought it had Whitewall tires from that first pic!

I bet that sucker will scoot.

 

That thing is pimp

 

Supposed to do 0-60 in 5.2sec, thats what I read.

 

Yea if it ever gets traction, that rear end with the 20+'' tires will be bouncin around too much to actually move the truck. O well it is still hot, and WHY NOT? Fast trucks are cool.

 

bye bye lightening!
that thing will fly, I'd get one, if they offered it with 4wd that is.