Fast and Curious: Watch a Ram TRX take on Germany's Nürburgring circuit

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The Ram 1500 TRX was designed as a race truck, but the type that normally goes all-out across the Baja desert. Still, that didn’t stop someone from taking one out and seeing just what it would do on Germany’s Nürburgring — and, hey, as we like to say here, why not?

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Dale Lomas is a British driving enthusiast and automotive writer who resides in Germany. “I live at the Nürburgring,” as he puts it, running the fan site BridgeToGantry.com . He’s taken just about everything else out on the famed track, so why not a Ram TRX, with its supercharged 6.2L V8 that makes 702 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque?

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So how does this off-road warrior handle things when there’s pavement under its tires? In his 17-minute video, Lomas discovered that the TRX can go really well in a straight line, but some of the corners got a little dicey. After all, there’s a reason why race cars are low-slung ground-huggers, while the TRX requires that you crawl up into it.

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Lomas would undoubtedly have liked to go faster, but the TRX has a speed limiter that tops him out at 190 km/h. He also discovered that there’s a limit to what the brakes can do when they’re asked to slow down a truck that weighs 2,880 kilograms, where they got hot enough to smoke. But on the other hand, if he moved slightly off the course and onto the grass, the TRX was now right at home.

It’s certainly not where the TRX is meant to be, but again we say, why not? And if Lomas decides to end up on the track alongside a Ford Raptor to see what happens, well, you know what we’ll say.