OT: CTX

[Susan]

Here it is - every mans fantasy

CTX



The fact i live and work in an area where people flaunt their wealth by driving expensive cars, hummers are a common site around here, and the fact i'm in texas where everyone has to have a truck or big SUV - i fully expect to see these on the road here. I wonder how much it takes to fill this tank. Given the pricetag of $115,000 - i don't think gas would phase the average owner who probably makes buttloads of money.

I guess i'm frustrated with all these big cars. I don't know why everyone has to have an SUV or big truck. Everyone here does - you drive down the road or look in any parking lot and there are hardly any cars..just oversized vehicles. Drivers in them indimidate you on the road by driving more aggresive. Heck, even some of the library and atm machines are built so high that clearly it was with large vehicles in mind as i have to get out of my car to use them. It's like the minute you start having babies you have to get an SUV. Which makes no sense, your having small children not sumo wrestlers.

[Yaddo42]

While I'm sure there will be some individuals who will buy them, just because they can (I can see California's Governator getting one just because it's even bigger than his fleet of Hummers), I believe most of them are really intended for commercial use. The manufacturers probably realized with our "bigger is better" SUV obsession in the US, that offering the CTX as the ultimate pickup truck is good publicity, even if they only ever sell a few to individuals.

I'd bet most will be sold to construction companies/general contractors, large scale farms and ranches, logging companies, or have enclosed shells and used as delivery and supply vehicles. or being kitted out as tow truck/wreckers for other large vehicles (those monster SUVs and commercial use vehicles too big for regular tow trucks but too small for pratical use of semis with flat bed trailers.

[Ash]

Someone somewhere said that the SUV is an icon for American gluttony & wastefulness.
I couldn't agree more.

Even if I were rich I would never buy an SUV.
I specifically don't want one because everybody else has one.

I'm definitely NOT an SUV guy.



Post Edited (09-19-04 17:12)

[trekgeezer]

One my work mates sent me this link the other day  and we had quite a laugh because we know idiots that would buy one.  I own a pickup (a Nissan) with a 4 cylinder because I  like to be able to haul things when need be and it still gets good mileage (29mpg).

 I really have problems with these things because it amounts to keeping up with the Jones.  Where I live you will see new big SUV's parked in front of mobile homes. The truck costs more than what they're living in.  Our theory at work is that these folks are suffering from insecurity about  the size of parts of their anatomy.

I saw a lady get in a Hummer (a real one, not the H2) that was equipped with the snorkels on the intake and exhaust for fording streams and such.  This thing had a perfect paint job, so the whole thing was just for show and had likely never even been on a dirt road.

[Susan]

Yaddo42 wrote:
 The manufacturers probably realized with our
> "bigger is better" SUV obsession in the US, that offering the
> CTX as the ultimate pickup truck is good publicity, even if
> they only ever sell a few to individuals.

I'm sure that's what they said about the Hummer, too. (since they look like a tank). Depends on the area you live in i guess, but around here people buy that crap like it's candy. And that's really what it is, nobody uses these for off road adventures. It's people with money to flaunt who want attention, and probably have a superiority complex. Here in dallas you don't even see the regular limo's anymore, we have these suv type limos. I fully expect to see these on the road where I live - mostly because everyone here is completely obsessed with large trucks.

[odinn7]

Susan wrote:

> Here it is - every mans fantasy
>
> CTX
>


Not every mans fantasy. My fantasy is somewhat different than that putrid truck...

Daisy

[Dave Munger]

I see your Fuentes and I raise you one Kennedy.

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[Yaddo42]

The regular limos are finally dying out around here, with the rise of the SUV/Ford Explorer stretch limo. Hummers were only an occasional novelty around here until the past year or so. Although since the introduction of the H2 those damn things have been multiplying like rabbits. Still overkill, but less ugly to look at than the Dodge Aztec, which from what I've seen sold fairly well around here for some damn reason. Maybe the car dealers cut deals for folks to take those things off their hands.

Still think the CTX will mostly be a novelty, between the cost, size, storage problems, and the fact that something that big will be even harder to drive. Dually trucks are quite popular around here, still lots of private farms and ranches, but even the people I know who use and actually need them never seem to stop b***hing about the cost of filling up the tanks. I'd hate to think what it would cost to fill up a CTX on a regular basis.

[loyal1]

Man I want one of those and I am a chick!  Honestly, before the SUV craze I was into Broncos, trucks, and the like....mostly because my step dad use to take my 4 wheeling and I loved it.  I'd like to learn myself someday.

[AndyC]

I'm inclined to agree with Yaddo, that this is meant more as a commercial truck. I can see it being pretty useful in some applications, but I can see some small minority buying it just for show.

I am a little bit reluctant to condemn SUVs in general. A big truck is a good thing if you use it right. My dad had a Suburban when I was growing up. I think it cost him $7,000 brand new in those days, long before the fad. But he fished a lot, and had four kids, hauled around a lot of stuff, and went on camping trips with a house trailer in back and a boat tied to the roof. There are legitimate truck owners.

What p**ses me off is when I see some snooty-looking mom in designer clothes load her two kids into a giant spotless Cadillac truck (never even meant to be used as a truck) at the supermarket.

Personally, I have little use for people who drive luxury cars in general. Just judging by driving habits, it's amazing how many a***oles drive BMWs. To me, it's an unjustified waste of money, and shows a total lack of imagination.

If I had the money to buy a luxury car, and I was inclined to want something that would turn heads, I'd be restoring a classic, and customizing it into something unique. Why own the same thing as everybody else when you can afford not to?

Wealth is wasted on the wrong people.