Posted on 07/24/2005 2:36:30 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
July 24, 2005 -- Hummers are for wussies. That's right, I said it.
Who's sweating a Humvee when you're behind the wheel of the ultimate monster mobile — the International CXT?
This behemoth stands a towering 12 feet, six inches above the ground. It weighs a pavement-crushing 25,999 pounds (purposefully just one pound less than commercial-vehicle classification). And it takes a stegosaurus' worth of fossil fuel to top off its 70-gallon tank.
And yes, it's street-legal.
Make way for the one truck that bullies Bigfoot.
"Yo, man, that's the phattest ride ever," said wide-eyed Victor Moreno of Newark as I wheeled the big rig out of Mid-Atlantic Truck Center in Linden, N.J., where you can get your own for a mere $105,000.
"Where you going?" shouted Moreno. "Miami Beach? You gotta go pick up Shaq!"
Actually, NBA star Shaquille O'Neal is reportedly looking to pick up a CXT already. Jay Leno's got one of the 2,500 diesel dominators in the first production roll-out, as does Ashton Kutcher and hoopster Jalen Rose. Nick Lachey reportedly has been shopping for one in L.A., where the bling-mobiles first hit the streets six months ago.
Mine is the first to menace the mean streets of Manhattan.
Wheeling around TriBeCa on Friday, I got more shouts, whistles and cellphone pics than a supermodel in fishnets. Who cares that it gets only nine miles a gallon?
"That truck's on steroids," said one onlooker.
This is like being in P. Diddy's Pepsi commercial.
Looming above three lanes of cabs, you're actually sitting higher than the roof of an SUV. You look down on Greyhound drivers. And aside from a McDonald's drive-through or bank window, you can take the CXT anywhere, even off-road with four-wheel drive.
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Jesus, could the vehicles possibly get any uglier?
This thing aint fittin' in a parking garage.
Well, I hope International makes some cash off the rich and silly.
Fun's fun, but that's just silly.
You have any pictures that can suggest the scale of these things? Like a picture of a person standing next to one?
The first question that goes through my mind when I see something that large is "Whats the gas mileage?"
My son (infantryman 101st AB) has driven around in REAL Humvees in Iraq and just laughs when he see "HUMMERS"!
I don't think so. That truck is comical.
It gets 8-10 mpg.
And that's hauling Barbie Doll furniture.
Wow! I saw a streach limo of the International the other day and wondered, what a great compensation!
Here you go. I guess that the dump bed is an option.
If only to give the eco-facists the vapors.
Hope a gun rack will fit.
Nah, the outer limits of vehicular ugliness was reached a long time ago:
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