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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.
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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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Man, I hope that guy lived.
Ok let me get this right. He has the truck held up with 2 4x4s and is welding in the close proximity of the gas tank??
What's a Miata?
Mark, I'm going to save your life right now. One of these days, sooner than later, you're probably going to see one of those beasts while you're driving your hybrid around the Bay Area, tricked up with custom wheels, a booming extremely-high-end sound system and front-to-back and side-to-side hydraulics, and carrying several fine, upstanding citizens of the East Bay who make their money the old-fashioned way: all cash and tax-free. Your first instinct will be to lecture them on their irresponsibility in owning and operating such a profligate vehicle. Don't. In addition to the bling and the machinery, those pillars of the community will be armed like the Secret Service's presidential detail.
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I see, sort of like a Camaro or a 'vette without all that nasty horsepower. How very gay.
LOL, just shows I have great taste. And that is funny because the only other Miata that I know personally is driven by a Lesbian (which I ain't) but her's has fake tiger fur seat covers so I shoulda known.
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