Ram 1500 Rumble Bee Muscle Trucks Start Under $60,000, Top Out at 777HP

Ram has announced US pricing for its new Rumble Bee lineup, and the entry point undercuts $60,000 by exactly five dollars. The 2027 Rumble Bee, powered by the 5.7-liter HEMI V8, starts at $59,995 before a $2,795 destination charge, giving Ram six widebody, performance-tuned half-ton pickups spread across price points from just under $60,000 to nearly $95,000 for the range-topping SRT.

Four Trims, Three HEMI V8s

The base Rumble Bee runs the 395-horsepower, 5.7-liter HEMI V8 and launches in late 2026. Step up to the Rumble Bee 392 and Ram swaps in a 470-horsepower, 6.4-liter “Apache” HEMI, arriving in the first half of 2027 alongside a 392 Track Pack version that adds sharper aerodynamics, handling and braking hardware on top of the extra power. Both sit below the Rumble Bee SRT, which pairs a 6.2-liter supercharged HEMI V8 rated at 777 horsepower with a quick-shifting eight-speed automatic, an E-spool electronic locking differential and full-time four-wheel drive with launch control.

“The 5.7-liter HEMI V8 lands in showrooms first with a sub $60k MSRP, hitting right at the heart of the truck market. Some will keep it stock. But let’s be honest – most won’t. A lot of brands try to fight that. We don’t. We embrace it. And we’re not just supporting it, we’re fueling it through Direct Connection,” said Tim Kuniskis, head of American Brands, SRT Performance, North America marketing and retail strategy.

The Numbers on the Range-Topping SRT

Ram calls the 777-horsepower Rumble Bee SRT the most powerful, quickest and fastest V8-powered production pickup built to date, and the figures back that up: 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds, a quarter mile in 11.6 seconds, and a top speed of 170 mph. That puts a widebody half-ton pickup solidly in supercar territory on paper, a combination Ram last chased with the discontinued SRT-10 street truck more than a decade ago.

Shorter, Stiffer, Still a Real Truck

Every Rumble Bee rides on a unique chassis that shortens the wheelbase by 13 inches and cuts body flex by 10 percent compared with a standard Ram 1500, the source of the truck’s stubby, muscular stance and its exclusive Quad Cab, short-bed, widebody configuration. Ram kept the four-door practicality intact through the shorter proportions: every Rumble Bee can still tow up to 8,890 pounds and carry a payload of up to 1,160 pounds, figures that put real truck capability behind the muscle-car styling rather than trading one for the other.

Inside, every Rumble Bee gets a flat-bottom steering wheel, console-mounted shifter and aluminum paddle shifters. Options include Active Driving Assist for hands-on highway driving support, a 14.5-inch Uconnect 5 touchscreen and a 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster with a configurable, full-color head-up display.

Built to Be Modified, Not Just Sold Stock

Kuniskis’s comments point to a deliberate strategy behind the base Rumble Bee’s sub-$60,000 price: Ram expects a meaningful share of buyers to treat the truck as a starting point rather than a finished product, and it’s backing that expectation with parts support through its Direct Connection performance division rather than fighting the aftermarket. That positioning sets the entry-level Rumble Bee apart from the 392 and SRT models above it, which arrive already tuned to their final specification with no factory-encouraged path to add more power later.

Ram frames the six-truck widebody lineup, Rumble Bee included, as proof that a single factory-tuned platform can serve buyers chasing on-road quarter-mile numbers and buyers chasing off-road capability without compromising either group. The Power Wagon and TRX cover the off-road side of that range, while the Rumble Bee family now covers the street-performance side with three distinct HEMI outputs spread across four trims.

Pricing and Timeline

Ram’s pricing ladder for the Rumble Bee lineup: the base 5.7-liter HEMI V8 truck starts at $59,995, the Rumble Bee 392 and 392 Track Pack sit in the middle of the range, and the supercharged SRT starts under $95,000, all figures before the $2,795 destination charge. The base Rumble Bee reaches dealers in late 2026, with the 392, 392 Track Pack and SRT following in the first half of 2027.

How It Stacks Up Against the Competition

The Rumble Bee SRT lands roughly $5,000 below Ram’s own 1500 TRX, which starts around $102,790 for the 2027 model year, giving Ram buyers a supercharged, three-figure-horsepower option without stepping up to TRX money. It also undercuts the Ford F-150 Raptor R, which starts near $114,420, by close to $17,000 while matching that truck’s supercharged V8 bragging rights. Ram says the Rumble Bee isn’t replacing the TRX; the two will sit side by side, giving performance-truck buyers a choice between an off-road-focused pickup and a street-tuned muscle truck built for straight-line speed and quarter-mile numbers instead of dune jumps. For a buyer cross-shopping both, the decision now comes down to terrain rather than budget: Ram has priced its off-road and street-performance flagships within about $8,000 of each other.