[thorn]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rushdy', '
')
Thorn that buggy is brilliant!

[dbarberic]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/08/Autos/monster_pickup/]MXT: When a Hummer isn't monster enough[/url]
Towering over other gas guzzlers and too large for most garages, the MXT is the third version of a heavy-duty truck from Navistar unit for consumers.
By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer
February 8, 2006: 1:34 PM EST
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - If you laugh in the face of high fuel prices...if nothing makes you happier than looking down on those tiny Hummers and F-250 Super Duty pickups...and if you don't have six figures to spend...International Truck has a ride for you.

[sameu]

when are they going to sell tanks?

of course without the ammo

but that would be cool! move over sissy suv

[Etalon]

wow, that thing is UGLY.

[frankthetank]

I'm ordering 2 incase 1 breaks down...

[killJOY]

I sit here in smug satisfaction.
We have our canned foods, our milk cow, our handpumps, our kerosene lamps. Our guns. We don't have one of these, though:

LOOK AT MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!
Can't wait for two-thousand-eight.
I'm laughing already.

[Dreamtwister]

Ashton Kutcher drives one of those.

I guess he really is the poster boy for type-casting.

[emersonbiggins]

This looks about as preposterous:


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[anthem]

Now, I have a small truck (Nissan) because I frequently haul things, but it's got a four-banger and I only drive about 5-10 miles on a typical day. I had already seen an article about the MXT a number of months ago. I cannot imagine who needs something like this, but I do defend the right of someone to possess one.

Does anyone else besides me roll down his window and holler at drivers of Hummers, Suburbans, and Escalades, "How ya like them gas prices?" Try it sometime.

In seriousness, products such as the MXT either demonstrate complete ignorance of the problems facing our world or complete disregard for them. I don't know which is worse. Ignorance can be cured, but it's so pervasive and people are so comfortable in it, I cannot fathom how the cure can be applied before the bottom falls out of everything.

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'T')his looks about as preposterous:

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'T')his looks about as preposterous:

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'S')omehow, however, I get the feeling there are 4 people at most in there, and there IS no back yard. Oh, and it's probably mortgaged to the hilt as well.

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'M')cMansion

[blukatzen]

Wow! A baby truck!
Since Navistar makes 18-wheelers, these are for the people that *want* to be truckers but...sigh...must work that job collecting over 150K a year. Life's rough I guess. Wonder how many I'll see at my garden centers this Spring?

[strider3700]

I was always under the impression that these where meant to compete with trucks like the grizzly. The grizzly is also a beast of a truck but it was intended to spend It's entire life offroad hauling massive amounts of crap around from job site to jobsite. I've seen 2 grizzly's on paved roads over the years. One at a home depot and the other stocking up on groceries for camp. Both obviously lived hard working lives and I assumed they where in town for the day to load up.

The idea of using one of these things for the daily commute is insane though

[Bleep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'I') guess that depends a lot on how many people live there

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'T')his looks about as preposterous:

[mgibbons19]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('anthem', '.')...
In seriousness, products such as the MXT either demonstrate complete ignorance of the problems facing our world or complete disregard for them.

[FossilFool]

I used to flick off Hummer drivers because of global warming.

Now, I see it's just the peak. The peak of everything this consumer society.

[gg3]

Eight tons = a 4 cubic yard concrete mixer loaded with 3-1/2 cubic yards of concrete. So if you got tired of commuting to an office cubicle job you could go into the readymix business and at least get some exercise!:-)

Though, the crew-cab does make it look rather like a CalTrans maintenance vehicle. Put a dump body on the back for that, and a tool box full of shovels, brooms, rakes, etc.

The sad thing is, big pickup trucks do have a real place in the world, and these obnoxious SUVs just make things harder for people who really need a big truck. One of my colleagues drives a great big Dodge diesel 4x4, the biggest they make. He routinely has PBX installations & repair calls up in the mountains, out on dirt roads (the other day he was on a job that was at the end of 9 miles of rutted dirt road), through blizzards, and so on. For him that truck is a tool for work, not a toy for amusement.