2026 Ram 1500 America250 Limited Edition Trucks Go Full Red, White, and Blue

To mark America’s 250th anniversary, Ram is rolling out a patriotic package packed with bold graphics, exclusive trim details, and three distinct personalities.

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As you’re going to be increasingly reminded throughout 2026, this is America’s semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary year. MotorTrend has special coverage planned, and so will nearly every all-American company with a product to sell. Take for example, the rah-rah, Hemi-loving yanks at Ram, who just launched a major salvo in the 2026 patriotism gambit: an America250 (A250) package available for various 2026 Ram 1500 models.


3 Trim Levels—1 Body Type

The America250 gear can be had on crew cab 5-foot-7-inch box models only of Ram’s full-size truck, and made to fit budgets ranging from entry Big Horn ($61,415), to mid-luxe Laramie ($70,365), to off-road Rebel ($72,830). Regardless of swank level, they’ll all get commemorative emblems, black badging, a sport performance hood with satin black American flag graphic and American flag bedside graphics, and blacked-out details including wheels, bumpers, fender flares, mirror caps, door handles, and tailgate handle.

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In addition, an America250 “splash” start-up graphic welcomes drivers on the digital instrument cluster display, the sill plates read “America Made Us,” the seat belts are Ruby Red in all, and upper front seatbacks get patches embossed with the official America250 logo, attached with hook and loop. And they each get a leather key tag embossed with America250 and Ram logos on one side and an American flag printed cloth graphic on the other side. Go, America!


Ram America250 Gets Three Powertrain Options

The venerable 3.6-liter V-6 is the standard choice for Big Horn, but it can be upgraded to the standard-output 3.0-liter Hurricane six that’s standard on the other two, and of course, disallowing the Hemi V-8 from any of the above would be tantamount to flag burning.

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And Three Color Choices

It wouldn’t do to offer surrender Baja Yellow, or envious Canyon Lake Green, so the only exterior paint options for the A250 trucks are Molten Red Pearl-Coat, Bright White Clear-Coat, and Hydro Blue Pearl-Coat. Inside, the entry Big Horn kind of gets the most fun treatment, with Denim Soul Blue fabric seats featuring contrast red and white stitching, plus a leather-wrapped steering wheel with red, white, and blue stitching. The Laramie and Rebel get leather performance seats with perforated Blue Crust inserts and contrasting red, white, and blue stitching and inserts on the seats, leather-wrapped dashboard, door uppers and armrests, center console lid and steering wheel.


Ram A250 Spotters Guide

The Big Horn and Laramie A250 packages each get a body-color grille surround, but they retain their trim-specific grille designs—Big Horn’s black mesh grille gets body color opening surrounds flanking the RAM wordmark, while the Laramie features horizontal black bars. Rebel gets a black surround on its unique mesh grille. This is also the only one to offer a black lower-body two-tone paint scheme. Standard black wheels are 20s on the Big Horn, 22s on the Laramie, and 18s with all-terrain tires on the Rebel.

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When and How to Order?

Orders were opened to dealers on March 26, but this is meant to be a limited-production option, and Ram is gauging initial interest before making the trucks more widely available on the build and price tool. So hustle down to your dealer ASAP. Maybe wear your Fourth of July parade finery…



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