Apparently this is old news, but I've just come across it;


Published on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 by the Independent / UK

NEW YORK - It may not be long before drivers of the Hummer - the steroid-laden sports utility vehicle favoured by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger - get a fright when they look in their rear-view mirrors.

Trailing them will be a set of wheels even bigger, greedier and more eye-catching than their own.

The US Army and the Chicago manufacturer International Truck and Engine Corporation are jointly developing a replacement for the venerable Humvee troop transporter, from which the Hummer was derived.

Last week, prototypes of the so-called "Smart Truck 3" were displayed at a trade show in Las Vegas. The army also wants the vehicles to be marketed to other customers such as government agencies or regular Joes who only feel right using a stepladder to get behind thewheel.

The commercial version would not have the electronics designed to detect anthrax, the Kevlar armouring on the underside, the night-vision cameras and the 25-inch LCD touch-screen computer monitors. But it would be just as big.

The Smart Truck would weigh in at no less than 8,000lb, compared to nearly 5,000lb for the second generation Hummer, the H2. It would be about 3in higher than the Hummer and 4ft longer, but its fuel consumption would be lower.

However, the era of bigger-is-always-better may have passed, even in size-obsessed America. Sales of the Hummer in the first 10 months of this year were down by a fifth compared to 2003.




That has to be the UGLIEST vehicle ever conceived!

Hey, it gets better gas mileage.

surefire way to piss off (male) Hummer owners: catch their eye and wave at them, then hold your thumb and index finger an inch or so apart while winking at them. instant rage.
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I SUCK TODAY
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It should be a law that SUVs over a certain weight only come as hybrids. Seriously.

that's gangsta.

I love how fascist these new cars look

Stax said:

In a Hollywood type of way.

sex in backseat will get a new perspective

horatio said:

"General...let's take this communist into woods..."
"No Rodrigo...let's take the Smart Truck 3 so that we can pack the whole family into the back and drive them into the mountains..."

PurpleJedi said:

is there any other way?

PurpleJedi said:

For real.

Hopefully it's got extra blinding headlights angled directly at my rear view mirror!

AnckSuNamun said:

It is fucking hideous, but I still think the escalade is worse

ThirdandFinal said:

Actually...I saw a new Escalade today...and they've toned it down. Looks much more like a Jeep Grand Cherokee to me.

NDRU said:

Actually...if you look real hard...you'll notice that on either side of the grill it has L-shaped banks with dozens of small lights to work as "headlamps". I'm sure that they would easily burn a hole in your corneas when the a**hole behind the wheel decides to turn his brights ON in the middle of the night and drive right up to you.

PurpleJedi said:

huh?

one of the most beautiful cars that just came out is the new Cadillac CTS

all there cars are starting to look more like the '16'
i dont care for escalades but they look great compared to previous years

horatio said:

I meant that in a GOOD way.

horatio said:

oooh yes

i want a CTS sooo badly. they're sex.

PurpleJedi said:

evenstar said:

Cadillacs are so ugly, basiclly the antithesis of sex

ThirdandFinal said:

But once-upon-a-time....

PurpleJedi said:

ThirdandFinal said:

okay

ThirdandFinal said:

PurpleJedi said:

Now that is a bad ass car. I'll take the old Caddies over the new ones any day. I don't think the new ones are hideous, but the don't compare to the new ones.

Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin' the scene
With a gangsta lean

VW is my current fav. car company . I just pretty much like any car from their line out now.....even The Rabbit.