Posted on 09/30/2024 5:15:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
This Terradyne Gurkha RPV could be yours if you're also a rich weird dork \ Are you a weird dork, but the prepper kind that lives in a bunker because they’re afraid of EMPs instead of the wannabe-future-tech kind who lives in the metaverse? Then boy howdy do I have the truck for you. This 2020 Terradyne Gurkha RPV is a ’roided up Ford F-550 Super Duty with real actual armor and real military purpose, but you can buy it and drive it on real American roads to show everyone how big your, um, ego is. It’s currently up for bidding on Cars & Bids, and it isn’t going to go cheaply.
Terradyne’s civilian trucks pick up where Hummer left off, delivering a giant diesel V8 with lots of torque, plus an uncomfortable interior and dimensions that makes everyone around you on the road instantly angrier. Seriously, this truck is a full foot wider than a Ram TRX, which is already too wide to comfortably fit in most places. At just over 8 feet tall, this monster definitely won’t fit in your average garage. And weighing an impressive 15,500 pounds (or more depending on options) this truck is too heavy for a lot of bridges. There’s nothing I’m afraid of enough to justify the absolute pain in the ass this thing must be to drive on the street. The tires are only rated to 81 miles per hour, so if you’re the type to get road rage and zoom down the highway at 100-plus, maybe this isn’t the truck for you.
Under the hood is a Ford 6.7-liter turbodiesel engine, making 330 horsepower and an impressive 750 pound-feet of torque. It needs that much torque, and a forty-gallon diesel tank, just to push around this massive lump of iron. On the plus side, it’ll probably crawl over just about anything, and whatever it can’t get over, it’ll just plow right through.
If you needed any kind of succinct explanation of who the Terradyne Gurkha RPV is for, Alex Jones owned one. So if you’re the kind of really cool guy who thinks you need one of these monster trucks, head over to Cars & Bids where the bidding is, as of this writing, up to $88,001, though will surely blow up from there. This Gurkha sold on Bring a Trailer last summer for $387,000.
Sweet ride. I’d want a turret.
I only want it if it also comes with an M-2 or M-134 .
I think I will stick with it.
They should put it in a Mad Max movie!
For CVS runs.
I saw a gray/white/black camo CyberTruck — truly ugly — today while out doing errands, in my Jeep HEMI V8.
How many guys would actually want to buy a truck whose aesthetic would advertise “I’m a weird dork”?
I had a 49 Chevy pickup for many years...but ended up selling it during a move. Regret it ever since.
LOL. I first read that as you bought it for $500,000. But, no, that’s a deal.
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 commission 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
Jeez… the idiots on my HOA board would probably make a rule forbidding parking it in our driveway.
For a little extra you can get rectangular headlights and octagonal wheels so you have no curves at all.
But it really was a deal. Bought it about 10 years ago from my neighbor who had retired from Ford. He drove it a couple times a year to haul this and that but for the most part it lived in the garage. Not a speck of rust.
He knew I was looking for a truck and offered to sell me his and I jumped on it. I expect to drive it until I die or the wheels go square, which ever comes first.
What in the world did somebody write in Comment #4 to have the mods delete it?
I did read it, but I don’t remember wat it was said.
Looks like a Lamborghini LM002 from the late 1980s and early 1990s. IMO the LM002 was the coolest 4wd ever made.
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