I passed an International CXT on the way to work today. Talk about totally overkill! Think semi tractor with a jacked-up, extra-large pick-up shell on top. It’s huge! I can’t imagine what kind psyche would feel the need to buy such a thing.
You see the strangest vehicles in LA…
(Yes, I know this is a lame OP, but I felt the need to share.)
I read about those a while ago. IIRC, they designed them carefully so that you don’t need a commercial drivers license to drive one. That means that even teenagers and old people can have one!
I wanna know how many gallons to the mile . . .
One word: Hubris.
And I thought our new pickup was hard to park!
Seriously - a Ram 1500 Mega Cab with short bed is ginormous enough. Only reason we got it is the dealer was tired of looking at the '06 models and we got it at better than 35% off MSRP.
Hmmm… someone compensating for something, are we?
Speaking of large trucks - I saw an F450 driving down the highway the other day and was amazed. I had never seen a 450, just up to a 350. I was just amazed (also, to see this huge thing coming up behind my little car at almost 90 mph was a little scary)
Brendon
F450s are fairly common around here (lots of oilfield work; given the time of year there’s a fair chance you’ll pass a service rig at least once a week).
I’ve seen a grand total of 1 CXT ever though (and not anywhere near an oilfield) It looked so incapable of performing actual work (bed too high to store stuff in, body too light for heavy towing) that I thought it was a custom job. Surprised the hell outta me when I checked online and found it was a production model.
And maybe it just looks like it, from proportion with the rest of the… thing, but isn’t that actually smaller than a standard pickup bed? I mean, I can see the rationale behind a oversized bed: You can haul more stuff. I can even see the logic for a bed bigger than you actually need, in a macho sort of way. But what’s the advantage to this? It’s… um… Tall.
It’s only lame because it seems you’re mis-using the term “pimped”. The CXT is indeed a giant fuck-you-mobile but unless it had spinner rims, neons, a huge spoiler, ground effects, monster sound system and a dozen LCD screens it’s not been pimped, let along over-pimped.
The only F-450s I’ve ever seen have had 15 yard dumpsters or the like attached to them. It seems like they wouldn’t be efficient for anything less than that.
My main objection to the CXT is that it looks like a giant toy. Also, the windows are asymmetrical and the plastic over the front fender looks cheap.
Give me a 1997 Dodge 2500 with an extended cab and a moderate lift any day of the week.
About 2 years ago I stopped for gas near Magic Mountain near LA.
There was a group there with an F650 Ford pickup. Here is a picture of what it looked like before these guys started working on it.
It was 4 wheel drive and had either 44" or 48" tires on it, a suspension lift and a body lift kit. I am 5’7" and I shit you not the gap between the bottom of the door and the sil was exactly at my eye level. :eek:
The the trailer hitch drop bar was 3 feet long if it was an inch.
I have no clue how they got into that thing.
2007, Cummins, Laramie Edition…drool
How about something like this
