Ram BackCountry Edition Adds Factory Off-Road Goodies
Last week, we wrote up the G/T trim level that will be added to certain Ram models. That trim is focused on minor improvements to on-road performance.
So, naturally, Ram also has a new trim for specific models that is meant to make mild improvements to off-road driving.
Now available on the 1500 Big Horn and 1500 Lone Star, the BackCountry Edition adds skid plates, off-road shocks, all-terrain tires, electronic rear differential, tow hooks, and hill-descent control. The truck also gets the Bed Utility Group package (upper adjustable tie-downs, bed extender (requires RamBox), bed step, bed lighting, and spray-in bedliner.
The truck will be first shown at the 2021 Chicago Auto Show this week and available for purchase in the third quarter of 2021.
Other trim-specific features include 18-inch black wheels, black tu-tone exterior paint, black badging, exhaust tips, headlamp bezels, mirrors, and running boards. There’s also a body-color grille surround and a tonneau cover.
There will be a black interior with bucket seats, unique badging, and all-weather floor mats.
If you want this package, you can get it with a 4×4 Quad or Crew Cab and either the 5.7-liter V8 or the 5.7-liter with the mild-hybrid setup.
It starts at $40,085 plus $1,695 in destination.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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I like the ability to literally have anything under the sun, but the RAM line has to have far surpassed the Mustang in just how many trim levels/packages/special editions there are. There's what, 432 different RAM trucks now?
I'm not a man of off-roading experience but wouldn't painted bumpers be bad for that task? It seems like the steel bumpers off the Rebel would be a better fit. I think all of the listed performance equipment is already available on any Ram 1500 4x4. So this is just a bundle-n-bling trim.