It isn’t often that you see a pickup truck in an acceleration race, but it still rarer to witness one popping a wheelie at launch and proceeding to own the quarter-mile in under nine seconds.
Meet the Dodge Ram Rumble Bee, a truck that thinks it’s a hypercar. The limited Rumble Bee edition used to come out in 2004 and 2005 finished in a combination of black and yellow. The stock 5.7-liter Hemi V8 made it go with 350 PS (345 hp / 257 kW) and 510 Nm (375 lb-ft) of torque.
The owner of this drag-focused example had it swapped for a 7.6-liter block, installed a Turbo 400 automatic transmission, and put a Dana 60 axle in the back. He did not care to measure the numbers, partly because he continued polishing the build all the time. Still, a supercharger and a nitrous-oxide system on board both serve as testimony that this truck means business.
In the video, the Rumble Bee rears up as soon as it is launched and proceeds to cover all 402 meters of the drag strip in 8.96 seconds. There is only one production car in existence capable of such a feat, and that one is the electric Rimac Nevera. The Croatian hypercar packs 1,940 PS (1,914 hp / 1,428 kW) and needs 8.6 seconds for its quarter-mile sprint.