Boom, it’s on! This is the strangest and coolest new truck drag race, that’s for sure. With the high power Rivian going up against the RAM TRX, aka the Hellcat Truck, and the lighter weight Turbo 6 cylinder Ford Raptor. Of course no “muscle truck” race would be complete without the S15 based GMC Cyclone or Typhoon which genuinely hauled ass back in the day. Who do you think is going to win this race here?
Hagerty’s Video Description:
America Truck Yeah! We assemble the four quickest production pickup trucks ever made in a 3-race debut of our newest show featuring automotive journalist Jason Cammisa.
Cammisa’s Ultimate Drag Race Replay combines ultra-high-quality 4K and drone footage of races with full VBox instrumented testing results and a slow-motion walk-back explanation of what you just saw — putting all that performance into perspective.
In this episode, we welcome special guest Kim Nielsen, the creator of the GMC Syclone and Typhoon, the original muscle trucks. Kim races his personal, stock, GMC Syclone against the others.
The Rivian R1T Launch Edition makes 835 hp from 4 motors, and dethrones the Ram TRX, with its 702-hp Hellcat V-8, as the quickest pickup ever produced. Only slightly behind is the Ford Raptor, with its 450-hp twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V-6.
But where does the GMC Syclone fall on the leaderboard? You’ll have to watch to find out.
Having an electric car compete is kind of like biological males competing in women’s swimming.
And I’d still rather have the Ram
12:20’s in a 7000 pound anything is just stupid awesome. Guess you should invest in a few spare sets of brake pads if you plan to do that very often.
Duh…that was predictable. Where are the prices of said vehicles? Maybe take ’em to Baja and see how they do.