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Posted on 04/12/2008 12:38:53 PM PDT by EveningStar
While most automakers are jumping on the trend of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, Alton Manufacturing has taken the opposite route. They've created a whole new vehicle category with their extreme-SUV variant, the "XUV"
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SO big that, apparently, they are equipped with airbrakes.
Wonder how many feet to the gallon it gets?
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W00t!
Gotta get me 2 of those!!
Holy cow...
You ever try and repair the air bladders on a Town Car set of brakes. Don’t. You can recognize them driving by their ‘clump. clump, clump’ every foot they take.
Let’s just disavow our cities and make our own zip codes for our cars, why don’t we?
Civilian MRAP.
They’re getting there; I want an SUV so big that when I pull up next to some little Volvo with Obama stickers all over it at a red light, all they can see out their windows is my running boards!
Wow! A 2008 “Earth Destroyer” model!!
very nice!
I have nothing against large SUVs (own a Hummer myself) but at what point do they become so big that they aren’t practical? Where do you park something like that for a quick trip to the grocery?
Gos = God my bad
That’s ridiculous. Is there no limousine too large for you? Or do you light your smokes with [name your denomination] bills?
Dual exhaust out too just be about the right height to dust a couple of Prius’s with a little diesel smoke from the center lane.
Heck, all it needs is one of those 100 mpg carburetors and some ecofuel.
My concern is America's dependence on foreign oil and both conservatives and liberals contribute their share to the problem.
Liberals fight tooth and nail to have every proposed nuclear power plant voted down and to prevent any new drilling.
Conservatives think it's really cool to drive around town in vehicles so big that, until a few years ago, the only vehicles that big I used to see on a regular basis were painted in camouflage patterns and had "USMC" stenciled on them.
So, with liberal doing everything they can to reduce domestic production and conservatives doing everything they can to increase domestic consumption, we have reached a point where we have to protect our Persian Gulf oil supplies or have our economy come crashing down around us.
I LIKE your thoughts. Pullting up at a stop light your immense vehicle blocks out the view of the sun, casting darkness over that weenie volvo or slaab.
Can you hear the little nonaborted carpetcretins crying in the back seat “momy mommy mommy, I kant thee ... a gweat bg shadow ith cath upon my wimdothes... ith the sky fallling ... We muth let Algore know immediatweeeee....
The issue has NEVER been consumption. Never will be. The issue is called power and control. Marxism for short.
EXACTLY!!! LOLOL, thanks for the laugh, very funny. :-)
Not me. Anything with three doors reminds me of a van or a schoolbus.
More pictures;
I’ll be sure to order one of these with the lottery winnings.
I'm gonna buy the wife one of those XUV's and park it next to the pickup.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!
[Krusty:] Hey Hey
The Federal Highway comission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)
Drive Canyonero!
Woah Canyonero!
Woah!
In any 6 adjoining spaces you'd like.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/07/chicago-2008-alton-f-650-xuv-makes-a-big-statement/
Video at this link
Didn’t Ford build an Excursion a few years ago, that was approximately the dimensions of a school bus?
The H1 Hummers are apparently no longer available for civilian purposes. But I do recall that SOME of them got out into registered road use. Interior room was crap, but it had HUGE undercarriage clearance.
Read the spec on the vehicle: the grocery is IN the XUV. . .
(evil grin)
"The issue has NEVER been consumption. Never will be...."
So, unlimited consumption of a limited resource has absolutely no consequences. Never has and never will.
Got it.
Meanwhile, back on the Planet Earth, a nation called the United States of America must import 58% of all the oil that it consumes from foreign sources.
your nearly $200,000 expenditure for this XUV will get you hardwood floors, custom captains chairs, a 42-speaker sound system, two drop-down 16-inch TVs plus a 42-inch plasma, four computer workstations, plus a train horn.
Man, look at the (lack of) ground clearance on these things! They were never intended to get any further off road than the mall parking lot...
My choice of a BIG SUV. This is just another attempt to separate the haves from the have nots. 
This is the way to show off your mega-SUV.
Oh, my... I’m not a global-warming nut or anything, but vehicles like those can NOT possibly be doing any good for either our pollution or our dependance on oil.
I agree.
I hope you have your flame suit on. People here don't like to be reminded that the American preference for monstrous, rolling leviathans with insatiable appetites for fuel might, just might, have some contribution to this country's impending energy crisis.
I have been a diesel mechanic most my life, I can built a bigger, badder, better looking supertruck than those megablingers that are being built for the bored rich and crack dealers.
Wow !! That is some kind of truck husband would love it :)
This will soon be the "must have" vehicle for various rap thugs, professional athletes and drunken Hollywood starlets.
Can't wait to see Lindsay and Britney crashing these things after long nights of coke and booze.
Total waste of space as far as I’m concerned. If I get something that size, it’ll be a mini-motorhome.
I agree. I hope you have your flame suit on. People here don't like to be reminded that the American preference for monstrous, rolling leviathans with insatiable appetites for fuel might, just might, have some contribution to this country's impending energy crisis. .... Drew68
Thanks for the show of support. I believe in telling it like it is.
If you have followed my posts concerning the Iraq War, you will have noticed that I have stressed that, since the region controls 70% of the World's known oil reserves, it is a region of vital strategic interest that we must protect for our own self interest.
Oil will become an even more precious strategic resource as China increases its standard of living and needs to supply its own vastly growing oil consumption with China thereby drinking thirstily out of the same limited sources.
I can see a justification in asking our current generation of warriors to risk or sacrifice their lives to protect a vital strategic resource that is needed for America's survival but I cannot see a justification in asking for such a sacrifice if we waste such a resource because we believe it's cool to drive around in such vehicles.
Once in the parking lot at work, I parked next to one of these trucks (belonging to a liberal) and, looking at its size, it did hit me that the last time I had seen vehicles of that size used on a regular basis was at Camp LeJeune.
How do you use up a resource that is in a closed system since it has nowhere to go? The only input and output of the Earth is energy the matter stays here (with the exception of atomic reaction that converts a miniscule amount of matter into a vast amount of energy)
No, the Excursion wasn’t that big. But don’t try to take it away from a friend of mine. He has a daughter and a set of triplets. He said it was the only vehicle that would take four car seats!
“The Mafia Chrome Shop” comes to our plant and picks up a new Pete about every 3 months or so.
Vile and obnoxious vehicle.
Instead of Viagra.
Another eye candy show stopper, this idea of mega-suv-blingmobiles is the most tackiest idea I have ever seen, only to be owned for the rich to show the lesser waged populace how high on the pedestal they are. I have a fleet of concrete mixers and this has just got me on a brainstorm of building a custom concrete mixer based on a HEMTT chassis or just a basic Peterbilt, lots of show chrome and lights, I am currently building an improved 1981 Peterbilt mixer with a larger engine, so far I have been on it 3 weeks and working now on modifying the hood to fit and it will be rolling advertising for my company so its both a money making vehicle and an object of my years of expertise building custom trucks.
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