i am not sure what all this said but i was a car show called Auto Show in Motion where you get to drive the cars and i gotta say the H2 sucked ass
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> Hummer, schmummer.
> You want a sport-utility vehicle that says power? Luxury? Whose sheer size
> and pavement-rumbling engine send others scurrying to the slow lane? >
> Well, you're probably not going to buy one of these because, after all,
> only 300 of the seven-ton monsters have been sold and they cost a cool
> $115,000. But for the sheer ability to make folks gawk or cringe, now
> there's something for big-truck fans to consider beyond the Hummer. >
> It's a new, monster breed of SUV -- the International 7300 CXT, brought to
> you by the folks who once made farm equipment -- and this rig makes the
> hulking Hummer, the current king of the roads, look like a ladybug. >
> Everything else, too, for that matter.
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> "It's huge. Man, my truck looks like a toy," said David Anderson of
> Bloomington, who pulled up alongside the CXT in his Ford F-350 pickup at a
> Twin Cities gas station recently.
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> Basically a semitrailer truck with a pickup bed on the back, the CXT is
> billed as an "extreme SUV" and the "world's largest production pickup."
> In a nation fascinated by supersized trucks and TV shows that "pimp-up"
> rides with custom interiors and spinning rims, the CXT is poised to become
> the ultimate road-hog status symbol for celebrities, pro athletes and
> anyone with money (and fuel) to burn.
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> "You're not going to sell thousands of these. What this is, is a unique
> opportunity for people who want to express themselves through their
> vehicle," said Scott Dawson, owner of Astleford International, whose two
> Twin Cities dealerships sell the CXT. "If you drive this, you want to make
> a statement."
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> About 300 CXTs have been sold nationwide since International began
> marketing the truck in September.
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> That dwarfed initial sales projections of 80 trucks for the first year.
> Current owners include actor Ashton Kutcher, country singer Toby Keith and
> an athlete or two.
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> So far, Dawson hasn't sold any in Minnesota, but that could change soon.
> After driving a demo CXT around the Twin Cities for the past month and
> advertising on sports talk radio, Dawson said, he has about a dozen people
> seriously interested. One, a professional fisherman from the region, may
> soon pick up the keys to the behemoth.
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> In Minnesota, a regular driver's license is enough for anyone climbing
> behind the wheel. The CXT's gross vehicle weight rating falls one pound
> below the 26,000-pound threshold beyond which Minnesota law requires a
> commercial license.
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> But drivers will need to make a few adjustments because the CXT is a
> pickup truck in name only. In actuality, it looks and sometimes rides more
> like the dump trucks and other heavy equipment International normally > makes.
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> Sure, it may come with the amenities found on a Ford Explorer or Dodge
> Durango: four-wheel drive, leather seats, automatic transmission, keyless
> entry and kicked-up stereo.
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> But its six tires are hip-high. It's 21½ feet long. It tows 27,000 pounds
> and doesn't fit in a standard garage, parking space or fast-food
> drive-through. It gets 8 to 10 miles per gallon, according to company > estimates.
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> 'It's so different'
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> It's also got a crew cab that seats five, hissing air brakes and a big-rig
> style vertical, chrome exhaust pipe. Then there's the booming horn,
> rivaling anything a Peterbilt belts out.
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> "People love that," Dawson said as he drove the CXT late last month
> through north Minneapolis.
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> As if on cue, the window rolled down on a train passing by. The conductor
> leaned out, giving a hearty thumbs-up as his engine chugged through the
> crossing. With the CXT's towering 9-foot-tall cab, its passengers are at
> the conductor's eye level, and higher than your typical stop sign. >
> It's a bit like driving a building, and it makes for a unique driving
> experience. There's nothing about this truck that's not supersized -- from
> the huge steering wheel to the entire lane width it fills. The air brakes
> also require some getting used to, requiring a light touch and more lead
> time, something that led the State Patrol to recommend training for CXT
> drivers before they get behind the wheel.
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> But the perspective from the driver's seat is something else. You look
> down at just about everything on the road. Combine that with 7 tons of
> metal thrumming underneath and there's a sudden injection of
> chest-thumping machismo into any CXT driver -- whether it's a muscular
> dude or middle-aged reporter/suburban mom.
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> No one on the road is going to mess with you. And people get out of your > way.
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> The CXT does not slip in quietly when it arrives at its destination. Kids
> point and grin. Adults do double takes.
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> "What is that? A Hummer? A semi? Or what?" said DeLynn Pfannenstein of
> Farmington, who spotted the CXT cruising near the airport. "It's just an
> amazing vehicle."
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> Others whip out camera phones.
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> "I gotta show my family. It's so different. So big," Jon Martinneau said
> as he pointed and snapped in the parking lot of a Bloomington business. >
> Then there are those guys simply overcome with emotion at the sight of the
> megatruck. It's almost as if the CXT reels them in at gas stations,
> restaurants and anywhere it's parked.
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> "Sweet," Anderson said in an awestruck near-whisper last month as he
> slowly walked around the CXT in Bloomington.
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> Dawson, a third-generation owner of Astleford International, said not
> everyone buying CXTs simply wants to drive a big truck.
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> For contractors or landscapers, he said, the CXT could be a boon to haul
> heavy equipment. Commercial boat haulers and those who haul horses
> cross-country could also put the truck's power and its feather-touch air
> brakes to good use.
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> David Armstrong of Prior Lake said he can't imagine why he would ever
> truly need a CXT's power.
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> "It's overkill," he said. "But it's still very cool."
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