Truck maker will sell giant pickup (based on cement mixer)

[theoceansnerves]

utterly obscene. the only way i could describe it would be littered with profanities.

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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - For the driver looking for more in a pickup -- one that dwarfs the Hummer and the Ford F-350 -- Navistar has just the ride for you.

The new CXT -- short for commercial extreme truck and built from the same platform as the heavy-truck maker's typical tow truck or cement mixer -- will be sold starting this week by Navistar's International Truck & Engine subsidiary.

At 258 inches, or 21-1/2 feet long, the CXT is about 4-1/2 feet longer than the new Hummer H2 pickup, and about 2 inches longer than the F-350 Crew Cab.

But the way it really towers over what's on the road now is in height. At 108 inches, or 9 feet, the CXT stands only a foot below a basketball rim and more than two feet above the Hummer or the F-350.

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http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/13/pf/autos/monster_truck/index.htm?cnn=yes

[Liberal Veteran]

1. The "See How Big My Penis Is?" mobile?

:eyes:

[mr_hat]

2. Inspired by the old poseur4x4.org site, no doubt, >

which is now down, mysteriously. Here's some of their inspirational handywork, courtesy of archieve.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010331042917/

[One_Life_To_Give]

3. Compared to a Autocar?

I suspect that many of the people interested in one of these already drive non-standard vehicals. I have seen some very nicely setup AutoCar and Brockway trucks, that have interiors decked to the 9's.

[fairfaxvadem]

4. I hope I never see one on the road.

That just seriously creeps me out.

[tandot]

5. Because there is no shortage of oil...

<snip>
Buyers will also have to have a fair amount of money to fill it up -- it's projected to get between 6 and 10 miles per gallon of diesel fuel.
<snip>

A big hooray to all the assholes on this planet. Instead of using their energy to develop cars that do not depend on gas, they create huge trucks to deplete our resources faster.

[glitch]

6. If men knew how tiny they already look in the big trucks they wouldn't be

so anxious to look even tinier. As it is now, the trucks are so big they look like kids driving them in relation.
A man in a Prius, now that's sexy.

[chaska]

7. Makes a damn good target ... pretty hard to miss.

Better not park that thing by me.

[hatrack]

8. Yes, just what America needs - a pickup truck 9 feet tall capable of 6 mpg

I used to wonder what the word "decadent" meant. I used to wonder what it was like to live during the decline of the Roman Empire.

Now I know.

[klook]

9. I won't rest until I have a truck

that requires a staircase to disembark. I'll really be somebody then!

[baldguy]

10. website

"POSSIBLY TOO MUCH TRUCK. LIKE THAT’S A PROBLEM."



http://www.internationaldelivers.com/site_layout/severe/cxt.asp

[hatrack]

12. Not just pointless and wasteful - it's butt-ugly, too!!

Somehow that doesn't surprise me in the least!

[phantom power]

11. The licensing requirements will probably limit the appeal

unless they find some way to allow people to drive them with a normal driver's license. Cement mixers require the same operating license as tanks, last I heard.