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

[Kitsune]

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.

[Cyber Wolf]

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.

[Kitsune]

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.

[Cyber Wolf]

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.

[zippyt]

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,,,,,,

[jaguar]

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

[xoxoxoBruce]

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.