...because the H2 just isn't big enough!
 

Presenting the CXT... short for Commercial eXtreme Truck. Target market: Overpaid, unler-laid, self-absorbed rich people who like the word "extreme."

Indeed. That statement, by the way, is "Driver has a small penis."

Anyone who'd want such a thing should be neutered immediately - it's obvious they don't care enough about saving the environment for future generations of children, and therefore shouldn't have any.

Good lord - that's insane.

A common justification for SUVs is to feel safer in case of an accident. Stuff like this will turn many nonfatal accidents into fatal ones.

I'm just hoping that at some point they start enforcing weight limits on residential roads.

If that assumption was based upon facts, then SUV occupants would not suffer an 11% higher fatality rate.

Right, there's a penalty for a high center of gravity and all that mass. :dead:

BTW, navistar used to be International Harvester. Yeah, farm machinery. :haha:

Ah, there's a fly in the ointment. Their website says; The * being; Well, it's got air brakes and I think you'd need a CDL (commercial drivers license) in a lot of states, including PA. :biggrin:

10 thousand LBS and above you need a CDL ( comercial drivers licence ) in Arkansas , But if it is a rec vech you can get away with LOTS !!!!
Hell if it has air brakes you need to be trained and tested on them any way , oh and ANY decent tire for that monster will cost around $300 any way , not to mention the maint on that beast !!!!
I guess some folks just have more dollars than sense !!!!!!!

I said the assumption was common, not based on facts. http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/frown.gif

GVW = 25,999lbs, 1 lb shy of the 26,000 break on CDLs. :lol:

True Bruce but i bet if you fill it with fuel ( not gas ) it would be over !!!
Oh and i bet its an automatic , i don't know to many Yuppie types that want to mess with 10+ gears

One thing I DO have to say about this beast is that in the last few years the MFGs have made the cabs VERRRRRRRY comfortable , AC , cruise , cd players , power windows , etc.......

oh this is just f**king rediculas !!!!!!!! But i want one !!!!
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Born out of a 20-ton hauler and other International ® severe service trucks used by the construction, government and waste industries, the International CXT is built on the same platform as dump trucks and snowplows. As a result, it is a vehicle unrivaled in capability, size and appearance. It hauls three times the payload of consumer pick-up trucks, is all-wheel drive, uses air brakes for unmatched stopping ability and offers towing, dumping and tilt bed capability. Additionally, it features a spacious interior with crew cab design that seats six and can be customized to meet owners’ specific needs – from paint color to air seats to flat screen TVs.

That's all well and good, but you can get all that on a decent large sedan, like a towncar, and ultimately pay less in gas, maintenance, have an easier time parking and getting around smaller neighborhood roads AND it'll fit in your garage.

Didn't I just say that?

Yes. I wasn't arguing.

Good god, welcome to the Land of Retarded Excess, where vehicle size keeps increasing, yet no one uses them for anything other than driving to and from work.

Well, it's got air brakes and I think you'd need a CDL (commercial drivers license) in a lot of states, including PA.

Here in a lot of the South, thousands of people are breaking the law by driving the large F-350s in their neighborhoods and around a lot of the city streets. Not only do they require a special license becuase of the weight, but you aren't permitted to drive most of those large trucks on just any road, especially in residential areas and across small bridges. How often is the law enforced? Well, right now, it isn't and I'm certain that local authorities will ensure that it isn't.

Granted, it may not be entirely feasible to monitor all the small roads and bridges, but I think it's one of those enforcement situations where very little is done until one of those X-tra large consumer vehicles actually breaks a small bridge or something while trying to cross it. Then everyone who's responsible for enforcement will come out and publicly complain about people driving these things where they oughtn't be driving them, going on about how they do their best to keep this from happening and focus more on the driver and maker of the vehicle instead of how little enforcements there has been.

I think it's one of those enforcement situations where very little is done until one of those X-tra large consumer vehicles actually breaks a small bridge or something while trying to cross it.

My concern is not so much an immediate bridge failure, but that an incredible amount of public tax dollars are going to repairing all the potholes, crumbling pavement, and bridge damage thanks to these oversized, many-ton minivans that are being driven where they aren't supposed to go by people that aren't paying the proper fee for the license or fully understanding what it is they own, not to mention they don't use it for hauling anything other than themselves. And if that wasn't enough, people are actually getting tax breaks to buy these things if they declare it is for their business.

I'm not quite sure what businessperson is going to be needing this kind of car to make an impression on, say, a client, unless it's something that is decidedly outdoors or travel based. Is said business person just going to plop the thing right outside the client's door because it won't fit in the parking garage or parking lot? Or stick it on the street where, even if he hugs the curb and has no one else to compete with, the thing will stick out into the road so much he might as well be double-parked? And even in all this, when are the people he's trying to impress get to SEE it anyway? "While you're deciding whether or not to sign the papers, sir, won't you come outside and see the really cool ride I rolled up here in this fine afternoon?" And even if he does manage to get the client to see his chibi-semi, it would be bad if the client was a proud big SUV or H2 owner and didn't like being outclassed. :lol:

well just think about the search and rescue possibilitys for this thing !!!!!
Off road fire trucks that could haul a crew with them , moblie command post in the far FAR boonise , etc,,,,,,

Come the revolution, the owners of these should be first against the wall.

The commercial website for that truck said they expected to sell 35 per year. But it appears they may sell another 50 per in the form of the US Army SmarTruck III. :eek3: