The Ram Ramcharger SUV, Sorted: Confirmed Facts vs. YouTube Rumors
Stellantis has put the name on a slide, promised V8s and an SRT badge, and shown nothing. Here's the paper trail — and the 777-hp story that isn't part of it.
Ram is getting its first SUV, and the company has been unusually willing to talk around it without ever announcing it. Stellantis executives have put the Ramcharger name on an investor slide, promised a V8-heavy lineup with an SRT version on top, and named the plant and the year. They have not released a single image, a spec, a price, or a press release.
That vacuum is now being filled by YouTube. This week a leak channel claimed the SUV will launch with the 777-hp supercharged Hemi from the Ram 1500 TRX, and the claim has been passed around as if it were settled. It isn't. Below is the paper trail, sorted by how much weight it can carry, followed by the list of things nobody outside Auburn Hills actually knows. This page will be updated as the story moves.
Confirmed: what Stellantis has said on the record
Every item here comes from a named executive or an official document. Dates matter, because the story has been assembled one interview at a time.
- A Ram full-size SUV arrives in 2028, built in Warren, Michigan. CEO Antonio Filosa told analysts in October 2025 that the full-size SUV in the company's $13 billion U.S. investment plan belongs to Ram, shares its platform with the Jeep Grand Wagoneer, and will come with a combustion engine and as a range-extended EV, as reported by Automotive News and Car and Driver. He did not name it.
- It rides on the Ram 1500's DT platform and seats three rows. Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis confirmed the DT basis to The Drive in January 2026, which puts it on the same bones as the Grand Wagoneer; The Drive reported that standard- and long-wheelbase versions are possible. Asked whether it would be called Ramcharger, Kuniskis said that "would be a pretty obvious guess."
- The name is Ramcharger, on a slide and in executives' mouths, not in a press release. Stellantis' Investor Day product roadmap on May 21, 2026, listed a Ramcharger in Ram's row, illustrated by a vehicle under a cover. On Aug. 20, Tom Sacoman, Stellantis' senior vice president for North American product planning and head of its SRT performance division, told WardsAuto that Ram will add "the Ramcharger full-frame SUV, based on the Wagoneer chassis, after a 35-year absence from the market." That is as official as the name has gotten.
- An SRT version is planned, and so is a Grand Wagoneer SRT. The same Investor Day slide flagged both with an "SRT variant planned" marker, and Kuniskis told The Drive on May 28 that the Ramcharger will get a "full trim walk including an SRT-badged variant."
- The engine strategy is V8-first. In that same interview Kuniskis said Jeep's powertrains would stay as they are while "the architecture of the Ram would be more V8-based," and that the two SUVs "needed to look, feel, and act different." He also said the company had "purposely parked them side-by-side," which is the closest anyone has come to confirming that a physical Ramcharger exists.
- Pricing will be "fairly expensive." Kuniskis wouldn't quote a number in January, but said "everything in that space is fairly expensive" and that Ram would differentiate from the Grand Wagoneer "on positioning," not price.
Rumored: the 777-hp story and where it comes from
The current wave started with TK's Garage, a YouTube channel that trades in Stellantis dealer and supplier chatter, and was picked up by autoevolution on Sept. 3 and Autoblog on Sept. 5. According to that report, the Ramcharger will use the supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi from the TRX, will be offered at three power levels like the Ram 1500 Rumble Bee lineup, will wear a TRX-style front end, and will get either a split tailgate or a lay-down tailgate. The rear design, per the same report, isn't finished and may echo the Ram 1500 REV pickup.
Two caveats. First, the specific three-engine breakdown circulating online, a 5.7-liter, a 6.4-liter, and the supercharged 6.2-liter, is Autoblog's reading of "three power levels," not something the source claimed. Second, Ram has confirmed none of it. The V8-first strategy and the SRT badge are official; the 777-hp figure, the tailgate, and the TRX face are not.
The rumor is plausible for an unglamorous reason: the parts exist. The 2027 Ram 1500 TRX SRT, which opened for orders on June 22 at $99,995 plus $2,795 destination, makes 777 hp and 680 lb-ft from exactly that engine, on the same DT platform. Whether Ram fits it to a three-row SUV, and whether it survives the SUV's cooling, weight, and towing packaging at the same output, is the open question. Ram also sells a 900-hp Direct Connection upgrade for the Rumble Bee SRT, which is why some of the more excitable coverage is already talking about four-digit SUVs.
Every rendering in circulation, including the ones illustrating the rumor stories, is an artist's or an AI's guess. Ram has published no photo of the vehicle.
What an SRT version would be up against
If a Ramcharger SRT arrives with the TRX engine intact, its natural rival is the Cadillac Escalade-V: 682 hp and 653 lb-ft from a supercharged 6.2-liter V8, priced from $168,000 before destination on Cadillac's site. Nothing in the segment offers 777 hp today. The other competitor lives in the same showroom: the confirmed Grand Wagoneer SRT, which has no specifications either, though Kuniskis's remark about leaving Jeep's powertrain "architecture" alone suggests it may not be a straight Hemi transplant.
The standard Grand Wagoneer is the other reference point. Its 3.0-liter twin-turbo Hurricane inline-six makes 420 hp in base form and 540 hp in High Output tune, and Jeep's range-extended version pairs a 3.6-liter V6 generator with a 92-kWh battery for a Jeep-estimated 647 hp and more than 500 miles of range. That range-extended system would, in principle, drop straight into the Ramcharger. Filosa promised a range-extended version back in 2025.
The range-extender question
That promise is the piece of the official record worth watching hardest. On Sept. 3, Automotive News reported, citing a supplier memo, that Stellantis has pushed the Grand Wagoneer REEV's production start from May to November 2026 and the Ram 1500 REV pickup to mid-April 2027. A Stellantis spokesperson told the outlet both programs are "on track as planned." If the pickup's range extender doesn't reach customers until spring 2027, the SUV version, promised for 2028, is now third in line for a system that hasn't shipped at all.
Nothing says the Ramcharger REEV is delayed. But the timing gives Ram every reason to lead with V8s, and it makes a later reveal for the range-extended model more likely than a simultaneous one.
What nobody knows yet
- The official name. Used on a slide and by two executives; no press release, trademark filing announcement, or product page.
- The reveal date. Not announced. Autoblog expects announcements late this year or early in 2027; the Detroit Auto Show in January 2027 is the obvious venue and equally unconfirmed.
- Engines and outputs, for any version. "More V8-based" is the only official description. No displacement, no horsepower, no transmission, no SRT figure.
- Prices. None, beyond "fairly expensive."
- The model year. 2028 is Filosa's launch year, not a model-year designation. Expect it in 2028; whether it's badged a 2028 or a 2029 is unknown.
- The range-extended version's timing. Promised, not scheduled.
- What it looks like. No official image exists beyond a covered silhouette on an investor slide.
What's next
The nearest hard dates belong to other vehicles: the Grand Wagoneer REEV's November production start and the Detroit show in January. Any of the following would change this page: an official teaser or reveal date, a press release using the name, confirmed engines or SRT output, pricing, or a dealer preview that leaks. Ram's newsroom is the source of record; anything that surfaces elsewhere first gets labeled accordingly here.
In the meantime, Ram's actual announcements remain truck-shaped, most recently Chassis Cab Night Edition pricing, while its showroom neighbor Dodge keeps the three-row conversation alive with a new Durango After Dark color.
Update log
- Sept. 5, 2026: Page published.
