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While the automakers may be disappointing us with vanilla reveals, we have to hand it to the crew at the Alton Truck Company for taking the kind of effort a certain segment of the automotive aftermarket world puts into Civics and applying it to this Ford F-650-based SUV. Weighing in at a paltry 25,999 pounds, this extremest of SUV's features a Caterpillar 7.2L C7 ACERT engine with 230 horsepower and 660 lb.-ft. of torque. For the low low price of $200,000 you get hardwood floors, custom captain's chairs, four wireless computer stations, a 42" plasma TV and a rear view camera so you don't accidentally run over a Yukon XL. It's nicer and larger than our apartment, though slightly tackier. It's the perfect weekend cruiser for an affluent 8th-grader with a driver's license and a few extra bucks lying around.
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I'm thinking maybe something lift-ier and rim-ier.
Imagine what it must have felt like to pass that through your colon.
I heard Al Gore wants his truck back right after the show's over.
It doesn't weigh 25,999. That is not the curb weight.
I heard Al Gore wants his truck back right after the show is over.
Purely and simply WTF?
So with batteries like 35,000lbs? And still not fuel efficient?
Did you guys go to SEMA by accident?
Wow that blue dash is straight out of a Nopi show
@BLS: Correct, that is the GWVR.
Couldn't they make that step a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitle more desecrate?
@Dr.Danger: Although 230HP still wont push it very fast.
Maybe thats a good thing.
This post should have been filed under the "ridiculous truck porn" heading. Team America wants one though.
@BLS:
GVWR = gross vehicle weight plus average cargo weight.
If they had a better interior decorator, this would be a decent alternative to a condo (and they wouldn't block so much of the Toronto waterfront).
Why have it jacked up so high and then fill that space in with running boards/skirts? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? My small town grown Canadian mind does not comprehend.
This is for the guy who thinks the CXT is too small.
That generic steering wheel circa 1988 sticks out nicely surrounded by that beautiful blue "carbon fiber" and those cow-pattern seats. Show them you're a man of taste and style!
The wheels don't fit the wells, er, well enough. Maybe they should be oval-shaped. Or jam another set of wheels on top, like gears. Hell, just give it tank treads altogether.
Body Features: Triple Train Horns. 'Nuff said.
Is that an emergency vehicle light bar on the roof? Do they anticipate selling a lot of these to volunteer firemen?
Here's the deal: you get the Transit Connect, we get this over here in Europe...
I know this is the land-of-the-free and all, where one can be as stupid and ignorant as one wishes, but items like this, I refuse to call it a vehicle, are flat-out retarded.
Kinda like **any** vehicle with 24" wheels not carrying at least 30K lbs. around.
25,999 is the GVWR as in Curb-weight + load capacity.
XX,999 ratings are used to get under requirements for commercial Class-B licenses, so that any 16 year old who passed a California driver's exam could drive this with no additional training.
Doesn't that make you feel safe?
On the other hand, this could probably carry a whole race team + trailer, so it's potentially got some use...
@arowsell: It's not jacked up, that's how high F-650's come.
25,999 is the maximum that vehicle is allowed to weigh at anytime. Anything heavier and the driver is required to have a CDL.
@Dr.Danger: @ 660 Foot lbs I think this thing would go down the road pretty well.
@todell: Yeah what he said.
My ghod... the Canyonero lives!
I normally don't care for overdone trucks but this is so over the top that I want it. Added bonus is pissing environmentalists off.
step one: get Alton F650
step two: drive on California freeway and find Corvette or Lambo
step three: get in front of vette/lambo, slam on brakes...let the fun begin!
Why does it have a police light bar? Is that just one of the various options for the man who has everything and thus find it necessary to buy the Alton F-650?
@JSmith53: @UDMAN: both seem like a waste of what should be some fantastic ground clearance.
Man, all these comments and no one's made a penis joke yet?
At least my 4X4 will get 12MPG. Try opping that with this thing.
i don't normally condone vandalism but i am willing to make an exception in this case.
Could be Badge engineered: Slap on a whale tail and dub it the Porsche Habanero
@lascauxcaveman:
Liftier and rimier...those are good words...perfectly cromulent words, even.
@Unevolved: I think it kind of goes without saying. We'll put it in the wise words of my smartassed wife: "Wow, I feel sorry for that guy's girlfriend.".
It has cupholders, right? 'Cause I'm not taking the kids to soccer practice in something that doesn't have cupholders.
Hardwood floors? They should've gone with bamboo or cork for a more eco-friendly statement.
I love how the opulent, "hi-tech" interior retains the crappy, stock Ford steering wheel. Just in case you forget that paid 200k for a Ford.
Why didn't the get "Excessive" badges made in the same font as the OE FoMoCo "Excursion" badges to slap on the sides?
@Citizen Braff: I pity the fool that's a member of Greenpeace!
the only way that thing could look good is if it was running over toby keith.
@Citizen Braff:
What exactly is going on in that picture? Looks for all the world like something a twelve year old drew in Maya.
@BSAKat: nope a 27 year old did it using Adobe Fireworks... but he still got an F because it was very rushed, and he has another meeting to go to...
@todell:
"...so that any 16 year old who passed a California driver's exam could drive this with no additional training..."
Actually, what I would really be scared of is the 4'6" suburban soccer mom on her cellphone, sipping her Starbucks coffee.
PS to Mad_Science: how do you think you morphed to N/A and now to TOdell? True, your directory with Jalopnik has always been TOdell, but these changes seem kinda wierd. Gotta love computers...
My first thought was "oh, crap now we're going to have these things cluttering up our roads". Then I noticed the curb weight, 25,999 lbs. (seems engineered to get under an arbitrary 26,000 lb. limit, eh?). Here in Michigan anything over 24,000 lbs. requires a commercial endorsement (and I believe a DOT card), whether that GVWR is actual or declared, or whether the vehicle is private or commercial. At least I can take comfort in the fact that there won't be a lot of them being piloted by clueless asshats in my neck of the woods.
@Hyman Decent:
@Miscellanea:
Just to men and volunteer firemen with REALLY small penises (penii...?)
excuse me, but *I* designed this. In Mrs Harrison's fifth period civics class. the detailed plans are right there on the cover of my notebook.
I'm calling my lawyer...
@Citizen Braff:
Heh, sorry. At first glance I didn't realize that it was a 'chop of the same vehicle and I thought maybe you'd grabbed it from somewhere on the intarwebs.
@Charles_Barrett: Seriously, I've tried on my comment homepage to turn it back to "Mad_science" bunch of times now.
Logged out, cleared cookies, refreshed, sacrificed chickens, nothing works.
Now the who internet knows I'm "Tod Ell" or maybe "Tode L.L.", or maybe "T Odell." But you'll never get my middle name!
The Official Truck Of OMGWTFBBQ?!
@BSAKat: No worries my friend... my 'chops only come out good about 33.33% of the time...
man just buy a schoolbus and save some dough
and this, my friends, is how the world sees the US.. lol- the fat pig that nobody needs. lol
1 highway, 0 city.
I'd drive one for irony.
@todell: Nope, but I do know your first and last name... I did some sleuthing on your company website when we first started planning to meet up at the L.A. Autoshow after Turkey Day (the the hunt for the elusive Faurecia Tatra).
Not to worry, my lips are sealed...
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