OK gunner, Time to get rid of your V-10 Dodge.

[feclnogn]

Now this is a truck!!!!

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.
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.


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.

 

[whitedeer]

Hell.....that's nothing.....my 1975 International Crew Cab is 22 1/2 feet long.......gets 12 miles to the gallon, and has cruise control and A/C. No leather seats though

 

[cjcj]

I want one!

 

[JoseCuervo]

Fecl,

ONce again, you are wrong..... My V-10 sits in the middle of a Ford Chassis, not a Dodge.....

 

[Wapiti Slayer]

Figures you'd drive a piece of shit ford! Luckily Moosie Has a Chevy that can get you to the hunting spots.

 

[Bambistew]

Gunner why type of milage do you get with that thing?

And you like to argue about oil and gas devolpment??? Could you buy a more gas glutonous car??? Kind of like the earth firsters that drive around in a burned out VW van that burns more oil and gas, and they'er worried about global warming due to pollutants from automobiles...

Wow chalk another one up for the "Typical Liberal" do as I say not as I do...

 

[cjcj]

Ford/Chevy/Dodge they are all good trucks[ calling one a piece of shit is [very high school] i have had all three plus nissan/gmc/toyota and all have been good trucks. so i hope your just kidding

 

[Hangar18]

Originally posted by cjcj:
Ford/Chevy/Dodge they are all good trucks[ calling one a piece of shit is [very high school] i have had all three plus nissan/gmc/toyota and all have been good trucks. so i hope your just kidding

C'mon CJ - Brand bashing is the great American past time.

BTW - Dodge sucks

 

[Wapiti Slayer]

Originally posted by cjcj:
Ford/Chevy/Dodge they are all good trucks[ calling one a piece of shit is [very high school] i have had all three plus nissan/gmc/toyota and all have been good trucks. so i hope your just kidding

Nope I wasn't kidding, I was flat ass cutting on Mike about his Ford! I wouldn't drive a ford for nothing!