Our friends over at The Drive interviewed Ram boss Tim Kuniskis last week and asked about the possibility of Ram producing a single-cab 1500 sport truck powered by the 6.4-liter Hemi V8.
The answer? No. No way. Nuh uh. Not gonna happen.
Why won’t it happen? Well, according to Kuniskis, the market for it, outside of day-dreaming enthusiasts, is small.
Here’s what he told The Drive:
“The new thing now is, everybody, everywhere I go, when are you going to do a regular cab sport truck? Do you know what the market is for a regular cab sport truck? It’s just tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, little sliver. It’s like the wagon with the manual that everybody used to ask for. Now they’re asking for the manual single-cab truck. And, of course, they want it with a manual transmission. They want it with a 6.4.”
The 6.4 would fit, Kuniskis said, but there would be a positioning problem.
Kuniskis also told the outlet that he’s not sure how long the new Ram TRX will stick around — it’s up to regulation and policy out of Washington, and those things are in state of flux. Not only is the current administration unpredictable, it’s also tough to predict what will happen politically when president Donald Trump’s term ends. Does another Republican administration follow? If so, does it have the same approach as Trump or is it more environmentally friendly — or even less interested in regulation? Or does a Democrat win the White House and push for tighter pollution and fuel-economy regs?
We won’t know the answer for several years. But we do know we’re not going to get a modern-day Ram SRT10 truck anytime soon. Boo.
[Image: Stellantis/Ram]
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