New Bad Boy Truck Dwarfs the Hummer(HUGE & PRICEY!)

My Way News ^ | February 13, 2005 | KRISTEN HAYS

[SerpentDove]

If they marketed 18 wheelers as "cool" and "trendy," there would no doubt be scores of morons buying them up to out-do everyone else.

[meatloaf]

I have no idea why folks go off at the idea of the International pickup. I guess they're just easily impressed. The engine's the electronic version of the 6 cyl. DT466 which has been around since the late seventies. The engine isn't even a high hp engine. Freightliner has had a similar truck on the market for several years with no one having apoplexy. Most of the ones I've seen are used to haul large horse trailers.

International just fancied their version up for the suckers. Unless you went to someone like Tulsa Truck or Marmon Harrington for a 4x4 conversion, you're not going to be doing serious off-roading in that truck. The first good stretch of mud will stop it. No one who wants a pickup will buy that truck. Most of the buyers will purchase it for a true medium duty tow vehicle. Don't be confused by the "heavy duty" pickups Ford, Chevy and Dodge sells. Those are still light duty trucks.

[JohnBovenmyer]

The biggest 'truck' I've seen, and certainly the one with the most interesting cargo was:

For more information Apollo Crawler Transporter.

[Vroomfondel]

Yawn. Been there, seen that. These things were all over the place when I was growing up in Germany. Most impressive were the ones outfitted with a fleet of reel mowers that tackled the rolling, grassy hills on base.

[Inge_CAV]

Now this is more practical, an 1896 US Army wagon, uses 6 hay-burning mules for power.

Your neighbors lawns would be clipped for free and plenty of fertilizer would be left for their gardens. No car payments, insurance or speeding tickets. If you fall asleep while driving, you would probably still arrive home safely.

Best of all, if your wife leaves you, it is almost a safe bet that she will not take your mules and wagon......

[MarkL]

Wow! That looks a lot like the "thing" that feeds the furnaces at the LaCygne power station, one of the largest coal fired power plants in the world. IIRC, LaCygne is rated at nearly 1.4GW, about what a nuclear power station puts out.

They use about 10,000 tons of coal every 24 hours!

Mark

[BurbankKarl]

Nothing says Bad Boy like Hino

[Redbob]

"...run off to the woods with a bottle of fine sake..."

What kind of effete California pervert would even WRITE such crap?

"Fine sake" is just another one of those prime oxymorons, like "government assistance" or "military intelligence."

Except worse.

[shaggy eel]

,,, let me know how you go with that wagon. If need be, there's room in the back for it.

[IamConservative]

Dodge Trucks have the worst resale value on the planet.

[headsonpikes]

Cornbinder placemarker.