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[DrIlyich]

Literally building out the last 10%, (393 more), of the last 4,000 TRXs to ever be built with the SC 6.2L engine! Am I the only one kinda excited about this? Feels like 1974 all over again.

Wonder if the color mix is staying the same here in the home stretch?

The Delmonico Red is a gorgeous color and I have been tempted to get one myself. I had a Ruby Red Special Edition 2014 Gen 1 Raptor that held its value extremely well after it was discontinued in 2014. But I am expecting Ram to release an updated V8 TRX over the next couple of years. Ram was the only truck manufacturer out of the big 3 whose sales were down YTY last year, so the TRX is an important truck for their brand and portfolio. A V6 TRX will flop just like the rest of their trucks. Moreover, you wouldn’t release the new TRX and call it a RHO if you didn’t plan on offering a Hellcat version down the line. The Predator Raptor R engine is scheduled to be built through 2028, so Ram is not that stupid to withdraw from a market that they have dominated in recent years and convinced a lot of Raptor owners like myself to jump ship. In summary, I am afraid the Final Edition is just a marketing gimmick for Ram to artificially create demand by saying the Hellcat TRX is discontinued only to reintroduce the product again down the road. We have seen them do this on other Hellcat vehicles, so there is nothing to prevent them from doing it again.

 

[Snowback]

The Delmonico Red is a gorgeous color and I have been tempted to get one myself. I had a Ruby Red Special Edition 2014 Gen 1 Raptor that held its value extremely well after it was discontinued in 2014. But I am expecting Ram to release an updated V8 TRX over the next couple of years. Ram was the only truck manufacturer out of the big 3 whose sales were down YTY last year, so the TRX is an important truck for their brand and portfolio. A V6 TRX will flop just like the rest of their trucks. Moreover, you wouldn’t release the new TRX and call it a RHO if you didn’t plan on offering a Hellcat version down the line. The Predator Raptor R engine is scheduled to be built through 2028, so Ram is not that stupid to withdraw from a market that they have dominated in recent years and convinced a lot of Raptor owners like myself to jump ship. In summary, I am afraid the Final Edition is just a marketing gimmick for Ram to artificially create demand by saying the Hellcat TRX is discontinued only to reintroduce the product again down the road. We have seen them do this on other Hellcat vehicles, so there is nothing to prevent them from doing it again.

You know you need it... Get'em while the getting is good! How cool would it be to still have that Ruby Gen 1 Raptor and this beauty parked next to each other? (I actually saw one of those exact trucks that was in great shape this weekend rolling around north Houston. Should have chased him down to get a picture... (Those are gorgeous trucks as well!) Once you've paid your bills and addressed all your responsibilities, nostalgia is priceless!

 

[tripleB]

97 more TRX builds found this morning. Bringing current total as of this morning to 3704. Closing in on the last of the TRX's. This will leave the Durango as the final Hellcat powered vehicle still being built with just over 600 open orders left to finish as of today.

 

[TyRex]

Of the three new/special colors, Night Edge Blue is in the lead. Harvest Sunrise a bit behind, and Retirement Red in the rear.

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Diamond Black is the best all the time

 

[Viperjim]

Wonder if they are gonna have a big to do around here being the last of the TRX’s.

 

[KnightMare]

97 more TRX builds found this morning. Bringing current total as of this morning to 3704. Closing in on the last of the TRX's. This will leave the Durango as the final Hellcat powered vehicle still being built with just over 600 open orders left to finish as of today.

I seen the plant has a May 20-27th shutdown now. I wonder if they'll add more non final edition TRX's to the schedule.

 

[Viperjim]

I seen the plant has a May 20-27th shutdown now. I wonder if they'll add more non final edition TRX's to the schedule.

Who knows. We aren’t told anything about shutdown as it’s changed I don’t know how many times and that way people can’t make plans. Our lives are to work and have no life.
Besides outside contractors are there every weekend modifying the line for the new items.

 

[JD25]

I seen the plant has a May 20-27th shutdown now. I wonder if they'll add more non final edition TRX's to the schedule.

Probably just make a run of "We Swear, It's Really Final This Time Editions" with $135k MSRPs with new colored decals and stitching to totally justify the cost...

 

[Terahok]

I seen the plant has a May 20-27th shutdown now. I wonder if they'll add more non final edition TRX's to the schedule.

I don't see any downtime in May, but they do have March 18 through April 5 down.

Also @Eighty , 2025 SOP was pushed back to 2/14.

 

[KnightMare]

I don't see any downtime in May, but they do have March 18 through April 5 down.
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Yeah one my buddies was telling me today they are doing a shutdown May 20th for the RamCharger most likely. Also said 5.7 will be on 2/8

 

[Eighty]

I'm only coming up with 59 TRX's in today's pile of build sheets (for a total of 3,763 Final Editions). That's a bit lower than the recent average of around 100/day.

 

[tripleB]

I'm only coming up with 59 TRX's in today's pile of build sheets (for a total of 3,763 Final Editions). That's a bit lower than the recent average of around 100/day.

That matches what I had this morning as well, entire plant was low though with just 643 new build sheets for the day

 

[KnightMare]

That matches what I had this morning as well, entire plant was low though with just 643 new build sheets for the day

My guy was telling me they building more and more i6 pilots. With the 5.7 hemi being killed by this time next week, I would think you'd see reduced numbers

 

[tripleB]

As for the "Extra Final" editions that could definitely be the case given the number of open orders I still find. (900+ as of this morning)

It makes me wonder if Ram is like some of the other Hellcat Last Call numbers though where that is 4000 for the US market or for North America perhaps and not in TOTAL for the world. 830 of those built so far were not for the US or Canada.

 

[Eighty]

As for the "Extra Final" editions that could definitely be the case given the number of open orders I still find. (900+ as of this morning)

It makes me wonder if Ram is like some of the other Hellcat Last Call numbers though where that is 4000 for the US market or for North America perhaps and not in TOTAL for the world. 830 of those built so far were not for the US or Canada.

I wonder if they abandoned (and re-VIN'd) a couple thousand trucks. Have you noticed that hardly anything has been built in the 204-208 groups?

 

[tripleB]

I wonder if they abandoned (and re-VIN'd) a couple thousand trucks. Have you noticed that hardly anything has been built in the 204-208 groups?

Definitely could be, there were only 82 of those 5000 trucks that were slated to be TRX's but yes, that entire group is like a black hole.

 

[BlackoutTRX]

Stupid question - but it really is a crazy thing to me that ram can spit out 100 trucks a day. How long would it take for ram to build 1 TRX start to finish no shortcuts? 1 week?

 

[Eighty]

Stupid question - but it really is a crazy thing to me that ram can spit out 100 trucks a day. How long would it take for ram to build 1 TRX start to finish no shortcuts? 1 week?

100 trucks? Try 1000 trucks (more like 1400-1500 on a good day with 3 shifts). They build more than the TRX in that factory. Bighorns, Rebels, Laramies, Limiteds, Tradesmen, HFE, Sport, Longhorn, and TRX.

Each truck takes about a day to be built (usually) - @Viperjim can probably tell us exactly how long. That's not counting inspections and the body vendor. Main assembly line only. But keep in mind that there are hundreds of trucks at various stages of the assembly line at any given time.

 

[HVACog]

Probably just make a run of "We Swear, It's Really Final This Time Editions" with $135k MSRPs with new colored decals and stitching to totally justify the cost...

OR. CEO .” You asked and we listened…. We’re unveiling red eye TRX. Now hear me out. It’s different from the regular final edition trx’s. We’re only making 10,000 of these in the year 2025. Don’t be caught lakin in a regular trx when a red eye pulls up.” Go on and sell your final edition for 80k and spend this 150 on the NEW final final Redeye monster.” Insert crowd cheering.

 

[BlackoutTRX]

100 trucks? Try 1000 trucks (more like 1400-1500 on a good day with 3 shifts). They build more than the TRX in that factory. Bighorns, Rebels, Laramies, Limiteds, Tradesmen, HFE, Sport, Longhorn, and TRX.

Each truck takes about a day to be built (usually) - @Viperjim can probably tell us exactly how long. That's not counting inspections and the body vendor. Main assembly line only. But keep in mind that there are hundreds of trucks at various stages of the assembly line at any given time.

Wow. Building a complete truck in a day seems wild. The amount of process engineering that would go into that to make it as efficient as possible…