It never meant to earn its owner the nickname Carsick Rick or make him change schools for fifth grade. It’s got opinions on tasty foods, not-so-tasty foods, and how driving in traffic-jammed Los Angeles makes it roil, boil, gurgle, and howl. Suggested retail price: $500 million.Eleven-year-old Rick Rusek is determined to improve the traffic conditions in Los Angeles– his parent’s failing delivery catering service, Smotch, depends on it.
Let the rest of the world worry about the yo-yoing cost of gasoline one small nuclear reactor will run this vehicle forever. Instead of 2,800 sailors, it carries 28 passengers (in lots more luxury than those swabbies get!) and can launch and land a Piper Cherokee from its roof flight deck. A detailed scale model of the Navy's magnificent 1, 123-foot nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, this SUV will turn heads in more places than the grocery store.
Optional equipment: a 100-bottle, temperature-controlled wine storage compartment.Įstimated miles per liter: 2 (jet fuel only). Standard features are classic European styling and a global positioning system for navigation that matches each individual vehicle to a "big buddy" Airbus jet flying somewhere overhead. Based on the French aeronautic firm's design for its 650-seat ultra-jumbo jet, this double-decker SUV would accommodate 12 passengers in seats that unfold into full-size feather beds. So, what's next? Can these new sport utility vehicles be far behind?Īirbus Industrie's Le Petit A-380. Amsterdam, an upscale gay bar in Phoenix, actually has its own stretch Hummer, which it shows off each year in the city's gay pride parade.) (Maybe all Daimler needed to know was that the other military-type vehicle, the Hummer, already is pretty popular down there on the wide roads and boulevards of the Valley of the Sun.
COLOSSUS OF ROADS ZIP
If they say moms in Scottsdale will want to climb a three-step ladder to use a 12, 500-pound vehicle that is almost as tall as a basketball net to zip over to the local Basha's for a gallon of milk, they must know something about the Phoenix-Scottsdale area and its moms. It's a head-turning vehicle."ĭespite DaimlerChrysler's recent financial problems, my guess is their people have researched the heck out of the potential market for the Unimog. "Even in Scottsdale, Ariz., moms will want to take it to the grocery store. As the vehicle's marketing manager told the Times: The company says it will manufacture only about 1,000 Unimogs for the United States, with a mere 250 earmarked for individuals. DaimlerChrysler plans to sell it for $84,000. The Unimog can be equipped with leather seats, walnut interior panels, state-of-the-art stereo systems and four beverage cup holders in each door. It's front seat, mounted six feet high, is reached by a three-step ladder."įurther, the Unimog is more than a foot longer than the Big&Tall SUV champ - the Ford Excursion - stretching the tape at 20 feet.Īs for its other vital statistics, the beast weighs 6.25 tons (more than two Chevy Suburbans) and is so wide (7-feet-6-inches from tire to tire) that it must be equipped with truck marker lights. "It is 9-feet-7-inches tall, nearly the height of a basketball net, and almost three feet taller than the tallest sport utility.
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