2/16/2005: Truck sold as consumer vehicle

It's supposed to be Hummer competition, this "Bad Boy Truck" -- if you want to play the vehicle size inflation game.

I agree, I don't want one either....well maybe that one time I had a hummer 2 think that I would get out of his way because he was bigger than my Jeep even though I had right of way .. I ignored him, he almost lost it off the road trying to not hit me then flipped the bird and ranted and raved for a while, kept putting on his blinker like I was going to pull over and "discuss" it with him ... that would have resulted in a discussion with my tire iron and if worse came to worse, my S&W 40 cal. ... so I continued to ignore him which pissed him off worse (good!)

I heard about this truck on the radio, they said it can withstand nuclear, biological, chemical, attacks... or "NBC-safe".........no joke.......

Hey, welcome to the Cellar, Krackel.

They're way out of Hummer territory, they're competing with the Navistar XT Family. We had discussed that one at length in LJ's forum, but that's kaput.
Also the Grandad in this class the Mercedes-Benz Unimog in it's military iterations.

Most vehicles can (as long as the nuke isn't a direct hit, of course).

The occupants may not be so lucky.

The reason it's touted as NBC safe is because the military version of this vehicle is specifically outfitted for NBC usage. It runs at positive pressure, etc.

I highly doubt it would tear up streets anymore than a tow-truck would.

I presume that it has hardened electronics, then? Wouldn't matter if it was intact after a blast if EMP wiped out all the electrical devices.

I want one, but only if it comes with anti-personnel stuff on it. Like high voltage, tear gas ducts, and slits to shoot out of.

And I want neons.

I just want to know when they are going to start shipping them over to our guys in Iraq.

Our guys in Iraq can't afford it.

I'd consider getting one if they came in metalic blue.

...and undercoating and a decent sound system would be nice too.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce Hey, welcome to the Cellar, Krackel. They're way out of Hummer territory, they're competing with the Navistar XT Family. We had discussed that one at length in LJ's forum, but that's kaput. Also the Grandad in this class the Mercedes-Benz Unimog in it's military iterations.

There's a user named Lumberjim, LJ for short, and he had his own forum here, basically just a subsection of threads that he started, but he stopped having as much free time to devote to us so his forum went away.

What a shame that a US car maker is wasting its resources developing another butt-ugly, gas-guzzling truck for rich people. With gas pushing $2.00 a gallon wouldn't it make more sense to work on making hybrid vehicles more affordable to the general public?

Hold on Garnet, before you whitewash, or in this case blackwash, the US Automobile Industry, twern't them.
This truck was developed as a working military vehicle. The guy in texas is buying them and outfitting them for Homeland Security applications.
As a possible profitable sideline he started another company that will trick out the same trucks for sale to individuals. They're optimistically hoping to sell 50 a year and it's likely most of those people would have need for a similar sized truck but desire and can afford a fancy one.
I think the number of people that buy one of these just for bragging rights is pretty small. A whole lot less than buy yachts.

Regardless of the company, it's very difficult to regulate civvie to civvie sales of legal firearms, much less illegal sales.

One thing will keep too many of them out of most people's hands, price. They run about $7k.

The m-16 and ak-47(74) are designed for different scenarios.
The .50 took two shots to penetrate the steel? There are already weapons out there that will do it in one, so why worry about this one.

Yeah, ok.
I thought it was interesting that Car & Driver claims the Accord Hybrid is a better car in EVERY way except price, than the standard Accord.

Yep, the .50 cals as someone said, are 7K+, have NEVER been used in a crime (yeah, going to walk up with a 5+ ft long, 40 lb rifle), and you have to realize it's going to cost you something like $3 every time you pull the trigger

They are a rich mans toy. BTW The Barrett rifle (the one the Military uses) was developed for civilian use FIRST - the military saw them and said "hey, now that's a good idea", and started buying them

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce The m-16 and ak-47(74) are designed for different scenarios. The .50 took two shots to penetrate the steel? There are already weapons out there that will do it in one, so why worry about this one.

I follow you, but terrorists aren't concerned about legal and to take down an airplane with a bullet would be damn near impossible. I can't think of anything you could hit that would cause a catastrophic failure on approach or takeoff.
It would scare the bejesus out of them though.