2/16/2005: Truck sold as consumer vehicle

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It's supposed to be Hummer competition, this "Bad Boy Truck" -- if you want to play the vehicle size inflation game.

For a base price of $225,000 — nearly twice the Hummer H1 wagon's base price of $117,508 — consumers can get a basic version of the 10-foot-tall Bad Boy that can drive through five feet of water, climb a 60-degree grade, tow six tons and keep rolling even with a quarter-sized hole in the tire's sidewall.

I don't want one. I don't think the local townships would be happy with me cutting up their roads.

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