QOTD: What Sport Truck Would You Like To See?
Ram isn't going to stuff a 6.4-liter Hemi in a single-cab 1500 and make it a new SRT sport truck.
Too bad,
I'd love a modern-day SRT10 with a stick-shift, but well, what enthusiast wouldn't? Or maybe, now that Ford has sort of binned the EV F-150 Lightning, it can bring the name to a tricked-out ICE F-150.
A Chevy Canyon 454? Why not?
OK, I am day dreaming. For a million reasons, mostly the lack of a market, these trucks won't happen.
But, if an OEM were to build a powerful sport truck, which one would you want it to be?
You know the drill.
Sound off below.
[Image: Ram/Stellantis]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Those trucks were awesome but had HO engines not available on any other models. Plus they were crazy expensive, relative to the base truck. Today you can check off the box on a V8 or twin turbo that embarrasses all of those. Not that fullsize choices aren't steadily getting take away, especially in regards to regular cab, short beds. Ram and Toyota took regular cabs away completely. No V8s for the GM RCSB twins. So we're down to the F-150 but it's aluminum anyway. Even still, no manual trans and they do force a fairly well equipped cab. For a limited time you can get a dealer installed supercharger on the 5.0 for right at $50K with a warranty. 700+ HP. Still under $60K with 4wd and sprinkling of appearance and convenience options/packages ain't bad. Easily a $100K truck if it was today's SVT Lightning, Super Bee etc. minus the leather, sunroof, 22 inch wheels, etc.
Ha, the Ford Ranger Splash....the end.