Posted on 09/28/2004 6:25:12 AM PDT by presidio9
Aww, screw it. I mean, really. You just gotta love this thing. You just gotta love the fact that some semitruck company somewhere called International Truck and Engine Corp. is now coming out with what they claim is the world's largest production pickup, called the CXT, all 9 feet high and 8 feet wide, a whopping 21 feet long and 14,500 pounds and 18 million excruciating earthly groans of it.
And in most states that don't give a crap for their roads or the environment or any human life that might be existing in the various passenger cars surrounding it, you don't need a commercial truck license to own or drive the CXT, a vehicle that makes the Hummer H2 look like a Honda Civic and that makes all the manly thick-necked boys go, ooohhhyeessss, and that the company itself claims, oh so tellingly, will absolutely guarantee your title of "king of the dirt pile."
See, there is this point. There is this point where it all becomes just beyond silly and absurd and surreal. There is this threshold you reach where you finally just have to toss in the moral and spiritual and intellectual and commonsensical towel and just laugh out loud and shake your head and sigh and then run off to the woods with a bottle of fine sake and the collected Coltrane. This is what you have to do. Especially when faced with such wicked absurdities as, say, Kraft Lunchables. Or John Ashcroft. Or Dr. Phil. Or the CXT.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I want one... to go with my Miata. In fact, I want a long bodied model so I can use it to carry my Miata around with me.
Cool truck. I want one.
You think that would haul my boat, then? It'd be nice to pick up firewood, too. I think I'll check this out. My old Ranger is about to give up the ghost.
Um, its probably not a good idea to let people know you drive a Miata on a Morford thread...
And Mrs Morford, you are WAY past the threshhold of being taken seriously.
Mark Morford has a crush on John Ashcroft. S/he must, s/he mentions the Atty Gen in every column.
Just stay out of the way Morford. This is anything but Mor-Ford! LOL!
Are you sure you want anyone to know you drive a miata?
It is a bit rediculous, but hey, if youve got the cash and you want one, go for it I guess.
"Because this ain't simply a work truck. It's also designed for the "discriminating" blue-collar redneck with $115,000 to spare,..."
It's designed for all those celebrities who can afford it.
After all, the Hummer's designer is a bona fide Hampton's guy.
Check the latest Forbes Magazine to see the "Travel Trailers" for the truly wealthy. They even have a second story, some have recording studios and of course, the marble floors in the baths.
Dear Morford isn't hanging with the elites who truly matter in his world if he isn't seeing the truth of the matter.
Prissy little gay girly-boy in a snit.
.....kewl truck!.....
I not only want one, I want to CONSTANTLY cruise it around Morford's neighborhood. . .
Yeah, I don't want to haul anything in it. I just want to drive around and get liberals ticked off.
OK Chronicle readers, you have your marching orders.
Just wondering, guys ... he compares this to a H2 ... how does it compare to a H1?
And how hard is it to drive? Does it operate like a commercial truck, which if my memory serves has an insanely complex gear system, or has it been tamed?
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The poster it, Morford, for Girly its, has it's pink laced panties in another knot.
Morford, please wear your estrogen patch and stfu.
Is it 4x4? If so sign me up.
check it out at www.internationaldelivers.com
"And how hard is it to drive? Does it operate like a commercial truck, which if my memory serves has an insanely complex gear system, or has it been tamed?
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Pretty easy. It has an Allison automatic transmission, power steering and all that good stuff. You could sit down in it and drive it off...no problem.
I just drove a 24-foot moving van across the country. 8 feet wide and 30 feet long and a blind spot three miles wide. It felt funny at first, but by the time I got here, it was just like driving a big pickup. And that one had a 5-speed manual tranny.
Wow, that looks exactly like son #2's quad in the back of the truck. He would die for a truck like that!!! Right now he has a long body Ford.
(and a '91 t-bird with a blown engine, 3 smowmobiles and a semi-functioning 16-1/2 foot boat, all in my backyard & driveway. I've told him no more lawn ornaments please)
;-)
How many cupholders? Does it have a built in Keg Cooler?
So to those with stronger stomachs than me how did he work them in?
The problem with liberals in a nutshell is that their busibodies. They just cannot mind they're own damn business.
Nothing like a cheerleader (with sand in her vagina) for gays in San Francisco preaching about 'excesses' to the rest of us.
This idiot is fighting a losing battle. If you ask me, the average American will give up his freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and right to bear arms before he'll give up his constitutional right to drive a big truck. It's been that way for a long time.
You can see the front differential in both of those pics, so yes, it is a 4x4.
That's not good enough, you need to cruise his neighborhood with the stereo turned up to '11' while playing Hank Williams.
I just skimmed over the article (funny if you keep visualize an outraged Morford beating his little girly fists on his thighs), but he did manage to work in "wet dream". Does that count as an orgasm reference?
I consider that a BONUS. . . . have to get vanity plates:
"KISMYGAS"
Given his proclivities, I think Morford has more to worry about on that score than someone who commits the relatively mild sin of driving a bigger truck than he really needs. ;)
I want a MEGATRUCK and I want it NOW!
Just made it through Morford's whiny screed. I can just imagine his tiny manicured fists beating against the grille of the CXT while squealing "You brute, you brute, you brute!". But he(?) shouldn't fret about one truck or another nailing down "macho absurdity". With this editorial Mikey's demonstrated that he's the poster boy for the ultimate caricature of the gay male. He strikes me as the sort of person that even other gays stare at and mutter, "Gawd, what a screamer!".
These would be good for drawings and quartering terrorists. That would twist Mofo's panties.
(hee hee hee) Ford is having some trouble these days.
These would be good for drawings and quartering terrorists. That would twist Mofo's panties.
Pretty Truck
Seems to me that International is part of Navistar, which used to be International Harvester, which went through a couple decades of downsizing rather than compete.
Maybe they got some new management.
Hey, look over here. I just found what you're gonna get me for Christmas!!!!
So9
God I love this country. Big trucks for those that want them, hybrids for those that don't. My reaction is to pour myself 2 fingers of Tesoro Paradiso, light up a nice cigar and listen for Mr. Priss's whining noises. It sounds like the bleating of sheep.
I love to see them with their feathers ruffled, it's so pitiful it's funny
Sigh...
hmmm, why wouldn't I want people to know I drive a Miata? It's a chick car, I'm a chick. I have my screen name as my vanity plate. It's ten years old so don't start with the made in America stuff. That was pre Freeper days.
truck envy? i can't even blink right now. gawd...
i drive an 04 f-250 diesel supercab longbed; tows my 12k 5th wheel camper to nascar races...agh agh agh (tim allen?)
sometimes i'll plug the camper into a gas generator, and dare i say ... burn two fossil fuels at once?! international makes my engine, btw.
big-truck freepers, unite!!
Um, you may be a chick, but the Miata is the official car of the poofter community.
He'd like it if it had a rainbow paint job.
She didn't call me. Boy is she in trouble...
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