Whats Your Ride...

[sportcamper1]

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/13/pf/autos/monster_truck/cap_navistar_cxt.03.jpg

Stupid? Hey, when I need to drive down to the store for a loaf of bread, I like to go in style & safety....Plus you never know when you're going to have to mow down some punk wearing a Kobe Bryant Jersey...

Cosmic Cowboy...

[Jimcs50]

http://fp.images.autos.msn.com/merismus/YearGlance/y445059a.jpg


http://fp.images.autos.msn.com/merismus/YearGlance/y445060a.jpg

[Useruser666]

That truck from the CNN article, isn't that a photoshop joke? I thought I saw that a while back as ha-ha pic. CNN is treating it like a real story though......hmmmmmm......

Useruser666

:eyebrow

[sportcamper1]

I have seen folks driving F-450's or F-550’s that look very similar with 5th wheel set ups pulling trailers...I don’t think the photo is a joke however I did not read the article...

[jalbre6]

Nah, that's a real vehicle, according to CNN.com...

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - For the driver looking for more in a pickup -- one that dwarfs the Hummer and the Ford F-350 -- Navistar has just the ride for you...the CXT, the new monster pickup from heavy truck maker Navistar.&nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp

The new CXT -- short for commercial extreme truck and built from the same platform as the heavy-truck maker's typical tow truck or cement mixer -- will be sold starting this week by Navistar's International Truck & Engine subsidiary.

At 258 inches, or 21-1/2 feet long, the CXT is about 4-1/2 feet longer than the new Hummer H2 pickup, and about 2 inches longer than the F-350 Crew Cab.
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But the way it really towers over what's on the road now is in height. At 108 inches, or 9 feet, the CXT stands only a foot below a basketball rim and more than two feet above the Hummer or the F-350.

"It's not going to fit into the standard garage," said Mark Oberle, a spokesman for Navistar, based in Warrenville, Ill., outside Chicago. "We can see it as a vehicle for business people who want to make a distinct impression. For personal use, it's for people who want to make a statement."

One statements: The buyer has a great deal of money to spend. The price for the CXT ranges from about $93,000 to $115,000 fully loaded, with such creature comforts as a DVD player and leather upholstery.

Buyers will also have to have a fair amount of money to fill it up -- it's projected to get between 6 and 10 miles per gallon of diesel fuel.

The vehicle weighs about seven tons empty and can carry another six tons in its truck bed.

What Navistar doesn't see is the vehicle being mass-produced.
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It expects to sell only about 50 this year, and it doesn't expect the CXT to challenge the market niche of the H2 sport/utility vehicle, which saw sales of 34,529 units last year.

By comparison, the Ford F-series, which includes everything from the nation's best-selling vehicle, the F-150, up through the F-350, had sales of 845,586 vehicles last year.

Navistar first showed the CXT in March at the Mid-America Trucking Show, the industry's premier event. It has sold a few already and starts marketing the vehicle to the general public this week. But Oberle said he doubts the marketing effort will include television ads or other mass-market efforts.

The vehicle will be available through International Truck's 345 dealerships, which operate 850 locations nationwide.

Oberle said he couldn't say how many dealers will be ordering the vehicles.

[Alamo Spurs Fan]

GMC has a pickup version of their Class 6 TopKick straight truck available.

For the kind of money International wants for theirs, you could get a nice condo Freightliner.

[zombie68]

I thought Freightliner was coming out with some mid sized Truck ( well to their standards) truck. It was going to made for the 5th wheel RV folks.

[CavsSuperFan]

AMC GREMLIN

www.matadorcoupe.com/AMC/GremlinPromo.jpg (http://www.matadorcoupe.com/AMC/GremlinPromo.jpg)

Babe Mobile...

[tlongII]

Schwinn Stingray

[TheMrPeanut]

http://4mrpeanut.com/3england1.jpg

[Samurai Jane]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/JDJAMEZ/importD0.jpg

[Joe Chalupa]

http://img.epinions.com/images/newworld/1910/161779-auto-resized200.gif

[bigzak25]

http://images.autotrader.com/images/2004/7/18/167/123/938383716.167123192.IM1.02.565x421_A.562x421.jpg


i drive a 93 lumina like this one, but gold.

i wanna new car...i don't wanna new car payment....i need to start playing that corvette scratchoff game.....

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

Those trucks are for real...we get rigs like that (and bigger)out at the rodeo every year...it is not uncommon to have a double cab Kenworth plus sleeper cab rigged as a gooseneck pulling a 7 horse slant with a 20+ foot living quarters...the trailers are 40+ feet long...some of those rigs cost upwards of $300,000...a lot of the PRCA cowboys are sponsored and drive a new one every year...Joe Beavers has been hauling with a rig like that (but with a 4 horse slant and quarters) for years...

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

http://us.autos1.yimg.com/img.autos.yahoo.com/aic/chevrolettruck_silverado2500hdextendedcab4wd_lslon gbox_2005_385x192.jpg

My ride...(but in "pewter" color)

[Shelly]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/slwunder/newmodsig1.jpg

http://www.champion-ford.com/vehicles/F12264.jpg

[Samurai Jane]

OK OK.. here's my daily ride...
http://www.catalog.auto.ru/images/067bf426.jpg

but in "Indigo Blue"

[bigzak25]

that's a sweet truck cosmic....

[SpursWoman]

http://www.coastlinefcu.org/RepoPictures/00PontiacGrandAm.jpg


That's what I drive....and only 6 more payments. :)

Although, see that driver's side-view mirror? Thanks to yet ANOTHER little fucker in my neighborhood, as of last night all that's left is a dangling mess of crushed plastic and broken glass.


:cuss :flipoff :flipoff :cuss

[Jimcs50]

What happened to your mirror????

[tlongII]

http://www.schwinnstingray.com/img/product/coppertone.jpg

YEAH BABY!

[SpursWoman]

What happened to your mirror????

Someone knocked it off....bastards. Something is always happening to my car. I get egg'd a lot during football season, too. I live in a really nice neighborhood...so someone either hates my guts or has me confused with someone else.


:lol


Payback is a bitch, I know. And I get it in spades...although I never did any physical damage. :fro

[Jimcs50]

SW, yous want me to rough em up?:tyson

[Shelly]

aw, that sucks SW. And even the city hates you. They give you tickets for parking in front of your own house!

[TastesLikeChicken]

Shelly knows what's up








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[Shelly]

Hey!

Unfortunately, I don't have my rims on the A6 anymore. I...uh..have bent all of them at one time or another. I don't take 100% blame although my husband begs to differ. I have 2 bent ones now and hopefully can get them fixed so now I have the stock rims on.

Damn potholes in Texas!!!!!!!!!

[TastesLikeChicken]

Just get new rims that are the color of curbs :)

[Jimcs50]

Damn potholes in Texas!!!!!!!!!


Shelly, I do not think potholes are your problem....I am guessing curbs. :p

[Shelly]

No, potholes. They were 18" rims with low profile tires. Very bendable. Only one rim was curbed. I blame my husband for that one :p

[TastesLikeChicken]

The result of Shelly's "pothole"









http://www.dalartworks.co.uk/bhangra/images/images_remote/wrecked/audi_a42.jpg

[Shelly]

:lol

I know there was a big one I hit on Callaghan once. Of course my husband knows where every pothole in the city is thus and is able to avoid them because, you know, he never bent any rims on HIS car...:rolleyes

[SpursWoman]

No, potholes. They were 18" rims with low profile tires. Very bendable.


Mine are 16" low-profiles. There was a huge pothole full of water on Basse near the Quarry that cost me $750. Teach me to go the gym.


:flipoff :lol

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

http://www.intercotire.com/trexus_mud_terrain-600.jpg

I just don't understand what the big deal is with potholes.

:lol :moon

[SequSpur]

Yall, just don't know how to drive.

As for low profile tires, if you get the right ones, you don't have the bulging and shit from potholes and speedbumps.

17" wheels are max for Audis unless you want to buy a rim every month.

The bigger ones are cool but wtf do I know. I have stock shit.

[ClintSquint]

http://www.adage.com/century/graphics/icon_michman.gif
"I like to keep a low profile"

[sportcamper1]

http://www.theautochannel.com/media/photos/ford/1998/98_ford_explorer_ltd.jpg

98 Ford Explorer... Poor Gas mileage...Can’t really Haul Anything...Not Really useful as a Truck....Not as practical as a full size American sedan...I really like it!

[SpurGal]

SPURGALS' RIDE...

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/10/web/670000-670999/670114_11_full.jpg

[Johnny Blaze 47]

http://media.theinsiders.com/Media/Other/371383_ford.JPG

My actual truck. This is a picture I took in late June of "Ginger" for a story we did on InsideThePark.com.

1999 Ford Ranger.

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

you named your truck "Ginger"?

Is it just me or is that really weird?...:wink

[Johnny Blaze 47]

Actually, it was a consensus between my friends and I since the truck is burnt orange in color.

Also, isn't it tradition that vehicles such as a boat are named for females? I just figured I'd keep it going.

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

I guess its just me...


but I have a question...

do you have to take her to dinner and a movie before you "fill her up" at the gas station?

[SpurGal]

:lol


do you have to take her to dinner and a movie before you "fill her up" at the gas station?

[KEDA]

2004 Ford F-150 "Heritage "Edition.

Competing in USACi Sound Quality in 2005

[Johnny Blaze 47]

No, she's not very demanding at all. In fact, I can go a week or two without even having to come close to filling her up.

She did get a little pissy when I was looking at a younger model, though.

[SLOVENIAN 8]

My ride Subaru Impreza Zti:
http://freeweb.siol.net/tpetrovc/SubaruWRX_ZTi_1024.jpg

[sportcamper1]

Ginger is a cool name...I had a VW Bug named Chuey....

Spurs Girl has a Hummer with Pimped out Wheels...Very Cool...Are they Spinners?

SLOVENIAN 8- My neighbor has one of those Subaru’s but not as nice as yours....It has an exhaust pipe like 8” fat...It is the loudest car I have ever heard...I had a friendly conversation with him and he now parks down the street...:lol

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

That Subaru is a crazy car...I am obviously out of touch...

I am not intentionally dissing your car but I just don't understand...

an analogy that comes to mind would be if you wanted a guard dog...instead of going out and getting a Rottweiler you genetically engineer a Collie to try to do the same thing...after all that work it still reminds me of Lassie...

[sportcamper1]

I don’t know what available overseas...But they are quite popular in So Cal...They are a track ready 4 cylinder Rice Rocket...A very well engineered machine...

2005 Subaru Impreza WRX STi:

Standard Engine
2.5L H4
Standard Transmission
6 Speed Manual
Cylinders
4
Horsepower @ RPM
300@6000
Torque @ RPM
300@4000

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

sorry, but pulling 300hp stock out of a 2.5 liter 4 cylinder by using multiple valves and cams plus turbocharging is a recipe for mechanical disaster...it's one thing in a formula one racecar where they tear down and change engines after every race but if you run that baby hard on the street (especially after kicking it up another 50-150 horses with aftermarket gear) I just can't see it holding up...pop a timing belt whil trying to double clutch and downshift sliding into a long sweeper and and the motor immediaty scrambles and turns into a $10,000 bucket of scrap...

[bigzak25]

dude, it's about the pussy. easy women want flash. whatever works.

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

I dunno...

For some reason I always did pretty good with the women when I just sat quietly in the corner licking my eyebrows..

[SLOVENIAN 8]

There is one Slovenian site about Cars , most EURO cars! In English too:RSPORTCARS (http://www.rsportscars.com/eng/)

[bigzak25]

when I just sat quietly in the corner licking my eyebrows..


a tongue like that and you actually leave the house? :p

[CosmicCowboyXXX]

a tongue like that and you actually leave the house?

hehehe

I would sneak out when they passed out and let go of my ears...:wink

[SpurGal]

Spurs Girl has a Hummer with Pimped out Wheels...Very Cool...Are they Spinners?

Yes... They are spinners.

Want to go for a ride? :wink

[NeoConIV]

2000 Countour

2004 Xterra

Xterra is rockin man, love it!