"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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It's impossible to know why they haven't made such a truck. But, if I had
to take a guess, I'd say they think they cannot overcome the cultural
inertia that's still present in buyers for that type of vehicle.

It may be a concern that doing so would affect their good gas mileage
reputation.
A full sized truck of 10,000 lb GVW or more with 4 wheel drive just ain't
gonna get good gas mileage, no matter how advanced the design of the engine.
Gasoline has about 130,000 btu's of energy, diesel about 10,000 btu's more.
Converting that energy to do work isn't magic.


Eisboch