Flashy RAM 1500 Has Luxurious Italian Roots

Champagne, Gold, & Palladium!

Add a champagne fridge, a pair of Surface Pro X tablets and an Audison sound system. A removable handmade gold and (what else?) palladium clock rounds off the luxury cabin spec.

That’s all countered by a stock looking, albeit luxury-trimmed Ram dashboard. A new driver’s door touchscreen controls each passenger’s climate, the fridge, interior lights, boot, doors and windows. And opens and closes all those secret compartments.

Slip under the skin and most of it is Ram. The Monza Garage tuned the 700 HP 5.7-liter Ram biturbo V8 has an economy 4-cylinder mode and turns an eight-speed autobox. Palladium retains Ram’s four-wheel-drive, but someone stole the low-range transfer box.

Aznom: 22-inch rubber, Brembo brakes

Palladium does come with an electronic locking differential though. Aznom fits custom 22-inch aluminum wheels shod with 285/45ZR22 rubber and six-piston Brembo GT disc brakes up front with four-pot calipers at the rear.

Aznom is clearly proud of Palladium’s alleged pedigree. “Engine builders, tanners, panel beaters, designers and engineers who have worked on this project are heirs to a tradition that has made Italian cars famous all around the world,” the company crows. Take a look at the images on this page before you decide the credence of that quote.

So there you have it. We’ll leave it to you to decide if you want to save up for your Palladium rather than that Rolls. Or whether Goodwood RR HQ need be concerned. Either way, no price is mentioned, but expect it to be mad. There are however likely ten buyers in this wild world, each of whom will be able to fully customize their very own Aznom Palladium out of a RAM 1500.

Maybe even one who has a Beast or two to trade?

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Michele Lupini

Once a handy engine and chassis tuner, and a combative racer and rally driver, Michele took up the pen to express his passion for cars, racing and motoring over 30 years ago. He published South Africa’s go-to enthusiast motor magazines Cars in Action and Bakkie — some say against all odds — for a quarter century. In that time, Michele had a hand in nurturing many of South Africa's motoring media leaders. Today Michele keeps himself busy with his a range of international motoring media duties alongside his own theauto.page. And a little racing on the side.