One doesn’t really think of a Corvette and a pickup truck in the same train of thought, right? So we’re here to change all of that and shake things up a bit. The C8 Corvette, which bears a mid-engined 6.2-liter V8, generates 495 horses and zips 0-60 mph in a flat 2.9 seconds. Which is very, very cool, in case you were looking for our blessing to get one…
But what if we told you that the C8 Corvette pales in comparison, at least in horsepower when compared to these outrageous pickups. What's even crazier is that most of these trucks are company-made stock vehicles? Jaw drop, right? While we do know, very well, that if your race a Vette against a very powerful pickup, the Vette will finally speed up – and technically, there’s no true comparison between a beastly truck and a curvaceous Vette.
Nonetheless, we have looked for and found a whole bevy of pickups that have way more power than the C8 Corvette, and make us itch to want to race the two against each other. So which one would you hedge your bets against?
10 2004-2006 Dodge Ram SRT-10: 500 Horsepower
In 1991, the performance craze came into full force with the GMC Syclone. Not be outdone, Dodge got to work, and decided to meld the two best performers they had and churn out a behemoth so powerful, you had to drive one to believe it.
They took the Viper SRT-10 engine, an 8.3-liter V10, and put it in a Ram light duty. The specs read 500 horses and 525 lb-ft of torque and won it an entry in Guinness World Records as the fastest full-size pickup.
9 2022 Tesla Cybertruck: 800 Horsepower
It may not look like much, at least not when you compare it to the pickup trucks we are used to seeing around. And we also agree, its revelation was a bit of a floozy. But the Cybertruck is no lightweight, and nothing but pure electric supernova.
Take the top trim, the one that boasts three electric motors and you have a pickup that makes 800 whopping horses. And it can almost beat a Corvette in speed as well, jetting 0-60 mph in 2.9 seconds.
8 2008-2014 Toyota Tundra TRD Supercharged: 504 Horsepower
In 2008, Toyota Tundra tried to add more appeal by selling a bolt-on TRD supercharger kit for the 5.7-liter V8 Tundra and power increased to a whopping 504 horsepower with an equally impressive 550 ft-lb of torque. The supercharger in the kit was an Eaton TVS roots-type supercharger, and since the installation came via Toyota only, the car’s warranty remained intact.
By 2014/205, rising prices put this program to an end, but it's fun to revisit the time a Toyota Tundra TRD jetted more than a Vette even if a 0-60 mph sprint happened in 4.4 seconds.
7 2022 GMC Hummer EV: 1,000 Horsepower
On paper, the GMC Hummer EV sounds amazing, because it jets more than double the horsepower of the C8 Corvette at 1,000 massive horses. What’s even better is that the Hummer is now an environment saver instead of a killer, because it has gone electric.
It's just 0.2 seconds slower to hit 60 mph than the Vette, zipping in at 3 seconds and the torque hits five figures! Enough said, now if we could just get our hands on one.
6 2020 Shelby Ford F-150 Super Snake: 770 Horsepower
Carroll Shelby may have departed from the face of Earth, but his legacy lives on, and not only in the cars he tuned in his lifetime. His company carried on making superior machines, mostly tuning Ford to everyone’s advantage.
And so in 2020, Shelby tuned up a Ford F-150 and made its 5.0-liter V8 jet a massive 770 horses, letting it fly 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds. This pickup is no workhorse, especially since it costs more than $90,000.
5 2021 Ram 1500 TRX: 702 Horsepower
Considering Dodge managed to make a 500 horsepower pickup in the early 2000s, it was high time they beat themselves, at their own game. Meet the 2021 Ram 1500 TRX, which now uses the Hellcat’s 6.2-liter V8 to not only churn out 702 horses but also 650 ft-lb of torque.
While it cannot trump the Vette in acceleration, taking 3.7 seconds to go from zero to 60 mph, it does make it a battering ram. A very fast battering ram at that.
4 2020 Ford F-150 Nitemare: 650 Horsepower
Much like Shelby, and Hennessey, Roush is another automotive tuning expert that takes a vehicle and turns it turbo. The Ford F-150 Nitemare, so introduced by Ruosh in 2020 has a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 that jets 650 horses, along with 610 ft-lb torque.
This lets this full-sized pickup, also America’s darling for 44 years and counting, zip 0-60 mph in a thundering 3.9 seconds. You can’t blink and miss it because of its size, and you can definitely feel the shockwave as it goes by.
3 2020 Jeep Gladiator Maximus: 1,000 Horsepower
Barely had the Jeep Gladiator entered the arena that Hennessey decided to better it, empowering it in every possible way. And to do so, the engine was swapped in favor of the 6.2-liter supercharged V8 from the Hellcat, now making a stupid 1,000 horses.
With 993 ft-lb torque and a 0-60 mph run of 3.9 seconds, the Jeep Gladiator Maximus looks utterly gorgeous but will cost you more than $200,000 for its super-truck-like performance. Of course, to many, it's completely worth it.
2 2021 Ford F-150 Venom 800: 800 Horsepower
If Hennessey made the Jeep Gladiator Maximus jet 1,000 horses, they did not ignore Ford’s 2021 offering either. So they took a Ford F-150 and coaxed its 5.0-liter V8 Coyote engine that usually makes 400 horses, to jet out 800 instead, with the help of superchargers and tons of tinkering.
Torque stands at an impressive 727 ft-lb, and a 0-60 mph sprint happens in a swift 3.6 seconds, making it yet another very, very fast truck that could also ride right over a Vette if it wanted to.
1 2021 Ram 1500 TRX Mammoth 1000: 1,012 Horsepower
The Ram 1500 TRX, with its nutty and completely OTT engine already jets out way too much power than a pickup truly needs. But when has that logic stopped us human beings from howling for the moon? Which is why Hennessey decided the Ram could do better.
Under their able tuning, it does. With a whole set of performance upgrades that could power up the state of Nevada, the TRX Mammoth 1,000 jets 1,012 horses, and 969 ft-lb torque. Honestly, we are too scared to find out how fast it could go…
Sources: HennesseyPerformance, Motrotrend