Please tell my this is only a concept

[Red Oct]

im glad that money is being invested in saftey agianst terrorism, but THIS really isn't what i had in mind.

[theavonlady]

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6x6&#33; Woohoo&#33;

/avon will tell hubby to trade in the land cruiser

If you read carefully, it says "The SmarTruck II on the show floor was clearly armed for military duty". I doubt it will ever see such use.

However, the concept of an ATV with a modular unit capability that can be used by various agencies isn&#39;t so bad or far fetched, IMO.

Right now it&#39;s only a concept but something more refined might be heading down your street in years to come.

[RalphWiggum]

glad to see that it&#39;s not in LA autoshow which i&#39;m going soon....

it is a good idea to have some consistency that can be utilized by different agencies. and from looks of it, i say actual version would look a bit better than one in autoshow.

however, i doubt if the auto will be used as regularly as hummer is.

[Red Oct]

what i don&#39;t like about this is that they are blowing on crap. &#036;600,000.00 bucks was waisted on building this shit box when i think could have been spent on acually fighting terrorsism

[theavonlady]

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That&#39;s not so much. Easily compensated by the US army giving up a thousand toilet seats.

Where&#39;s your can-do attitude?

[RalphWiggum]

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good point. 600k would be used to conduct more efficient tasks at hand. i&#39;m wondering what the use of the vehicle will bring in as benefit in the future.

at this point, i see no cost benefit advantage too.

[Necromancer-]

The designers really have watched too much "James Bond".

[Supah]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Jan. 09 2003,09:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Red Oct @ Jan. 09 2003,09:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">what i don&#39;t like about this is that they are blowing on crap. &#036;600,000.00 bucks was waisted on building this shit box when i think could have been spent on acually fighting terrorsism[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
good point. 600k would be used to conduct more efficient tasks at hand. i&#39;m wondering what the use of the vehicle will bring in as benefit in the future.

at this point, i see no cost benefit advantage too.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Well this is research of a kind though it is quite odd But it is never a waste to spend money on research. Just look at how much money was "wasted" on the space program .... Where would we be without satelites and the likes?

[LowLevelFunctionary]

woah&#33;&#33;&#33; A missle launcher&#33; I want one of these babies in my parking lot

[bn880]

The stupidity. Counter-terrorism vehicle, man, this completes the illusion of terrorism being an entity you can fight with weapons.

EDIT: You know what that thing is good for? Digging rubble from another WTC... that&#39;s about it.