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Ram's 2027 Rumble Bee Foose Edition packs up to 1,000 hp and a $154,990 price

Chip Foose designed the lowered street truck, which keeps a factory warranty despite its supercharged V-8 and Ridetech suspension.

Ram will offer a Chip Foose-designed version of its 2027 1500 Rumble Bee street truck, a lowered pickup that can be ordered with a supercharged V-8 making either 705 or 1000 horsepower. The Foose Edition starts at $154,990, against $62,790 for the entry-level Rumble Bee.

What Foose changed on the outside

The designer's touches run to a new front splitter, a tailgate spoiler, side skirts and a full graphics package. The truck rolls on 22-inch wheels wrapped in 305-section-width tyres.

Underneath, the Foose Rumble Bee uses a lowered ride height on adjustable coil-over suspension supplied by Ridetech, with retuned damping for cornering and rear control arms intended to limit wheel hop under hard launches.

Two supercharged V-8 outputs

Buyers can pick the 705-hp supercharged 6.2-litre V-8, or step up to a larger SRT supercharger running more boost for 1000 hp. Either way the engine breathes through a MagnaFlow dual exhaust.

The power gap over the standard truck is stark: the entry Rumble Bee uses a 5.7-litre V-8, so the Foose Edition offers more than twice the output in its top form. That matters because the price gap is roughly two and a half times as large, and the case for the Foose truck rests on getting a factory-backed build rather than assembling the same parts from the aftermarket, which would add up to a long invoice before any warranty is considered.

Warranty, price and availability

The Foose Edition carries three years or 36,000 miles of bumper-to-bumper coverage, the same factory-backed protection a buyer would get on a standard Ram.

Ram has confirmed US pricing of $154,990 for the Foose truck and $62,790 for the base Rumble Bee. The sources do not state an on-sale date beyond the 2027 model year designation, and Australian availability and pricing have not been announced.

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Lucid teases Cosmos electric SUV as production slips to late 2027

The sub-$50,000 SUV remains on target on price, but Lucid has pushed back its build date and still has no certified range figure.

Image: Motor1

Lucid has released a new teaser for the Cosmos, the electric SUV it intends to sell for under $50,000 in the US, while confirming that production has moved to the second half of 2027. The teaser arrived on November 6 and showed lighting details and a rear roofline the company had not previously revealed.

The timing was reconfirmed three days later on Lucid's third-quarter earnings call, when CEO Silvio Napoli told investors the Cosmos is now due in the second half of 2027. Lucid had originally pencilled the vehicle in for late 2026.

What the teaser shows, and what it leaves out

The clip is narrow in scope. Lucid showed exterior cues, a sculpted rear end and a distinct lighting signature, but did not confirm trim names, interior layout or a finished production design. No further specifications accompanied the video and images.

Lucid calls the Cosmos the anchor of its Midsize program, a vehicle intended to pull the brand toward a broader, less expensive customer base than the Air sedan or the Gravity SUV ever targeted. The company says it cannot wait "to share this feeling with even more people".

Several basics remain unannounced: there is no EPA-certified range number, no confirmed delivery date and no trim-specific pricing. Lucid says it plans to announce reveal and production dates in the first quarter of 2027.

Projected range, efficiency and charging

Lucid is projecting roughly 300 miles of range from a 69-kilowatt-hour battery pack, a size well below what the Gravity or Air carry. The company pairs that with a claimed maximum efficiency of 4.5 miles per kilowatt-hour.

On charging, Lucid estimates the pack can add 200 miles of range in 14 minutes. Those range, efficiency and charging figures are internal projections rather than independent, production-level testing or certified results.

The distinction matters for buyers weighing the Cosmos against established rivals. A 300-mile figure carries real weight only once it has been through EPA testing, and Lucid's own numbers are the only ones on the table until then.

Price target holds below $50,000

Lucid has positioned the Cosmos with a starting price below $50,000 in the US, undercutting every current model in its lineup by a wide margin. A trim-specific MSRP has not been announced.

The gap between projection and certification is the central risk in the Cosmos story. A sub-$50,000 SUV with 300 miles of range would reshape the brand's reach, but only if the final numbers hold up once the vehicle reaches EPA testing and actual deliveries begin.

Lucid's own production schedule has slipped once already, which makes the projected figures harder to bank on than a certified number from a vehicle already on sale.

Production status and Lucid's quarterly numbers

Lucid says testing, final-stage prototyping and validation of its Midsize program continued through the third quarter, and pilot production has now entered its final phase.

Separate from the teaser, Lucid's third-quarter 2026 operating numbers showed 3,806 vehicles delivered and 2,954 built, after the company cut a shift at its Arizona plant.

For drivers and car buyers, the practical takeaway is a longer wait than Lucid first signalled. Anyone holding off on a sub-$50,000 electric SUV now has a build window in the second half of 2027 at the earliest, with the reveal date and full specifications still to come in the first quarter of 2027.

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