New International CXT makes HUMMER look like a bug

[yoda313]

Hello,

Here's a story for truck lovers:

http://www.clickondetroit.com/automotive/3738487/detail.html



The thing is huge! 9ft high 8ft wide! It's gonna go for about $100k and they'll make about a 100 of them. It's supposed to be for construction workers.

Kevin

[bazooka]

There will be a niche market that will want it as well.

[yoda313]

Hello,

I'd love to see that thing go up against a HUMMER at a demolishion derby! (the full hummer, not wimpy H2 - which is still ten times more car than anyone honestly needs).

Kevin

Bazooka - That niche market is the neighbors of Hummer owners who want to make them gealous!

[CoasterCreator]

Well untill people get trired of the over 2 or 3 ton weight limit on some residentials streets and start geeting tickets everyday until they are force to sell the car or change the laws

[bazooka]

It only gets about seven miles to the gallon.

[Capmaster]

Now I've seen it all. Every trucker wanna-be is going to take out a second mortgage on the house to buy one.

"Breaker one-nine"

[yoda313]

Hello,

Cap - That truck IS a house!

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,

Cap - That truck IS a house!

Kevin

Yes it is.

I wonder how those'll fit in parking spaces. The hummer guys have to park at the ends or take two spots.

[BJ_M]

mine in white

[thecoalman]

Head to head off road the hummer will eat that thing alive...just by looking at it I can see it's top heavy.

[BJ_M]

sure -- but just put a plow on it and make your own road..


plus it is a alum cab -- and the 900lbs engine is mounted quite low - that and frame and axles are all low cog

[DVD_Ripper]

Head to head off road the hummer will eat that thing alive...just by looking at it I can see it's top heavy.

Agree... and it looks a little lite on the ground clearance.

[thecoalman]

sure -- but just put a plow on it and make your own road

I hope your kidding .... It doesn't work that way. The more I look at it the more i wonder what practical purpose it could serve.

[yoda313]

Hello,

You know, a little offtopic there was a funny bit in a H2 commercial I remember seeing. The car was just riding down a normal highway but they still had to put up the "proffesional driver" warning on the lower part of the screen. What for?? You gonna run out of gas before you get to the next gas station???

Kevin

[BJ_M]

though if you get that thing stuck --- it is really stuck ...

but more than once we have pulled out humvees stuck in sand with a normal 4x4 tow truck -- which is kinda funny

[BJ_M]

this will be popular with the offshore racers hauling thier boats --

thats the purpose :

[thecoalman]

though if you get that thing stuck --- it is really stuck ...

Speaking of being stuck with a large trucks that's my new job, it's rained here every other day for the last month ands ahalf it seems. I drive the truck to the house and get it stuck If it keeps rining I'm going to have to hire a tow truck to follow me around.

Anybody want to start a landscaping business?