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Americans know how to do trucks. Take a look at this, the LoneStar Harley-Davidson Special Edition, a monster, blinged-up semi (which is a category of lorry, we believe) from Navistar International.
What a beast. Puts the boys’ piteous big-rigs to shame, doesn’t it? Imagine blasting down Route 66 in this, country and western blaring out of the giant speakers, stash of smutty magazines on the seat beside, wearing a check shirt the size of a large tent, mercilessly turning cute roadside mammals into roadkill. That’d be great.
The LoneStar HD is a special edition of International’s ‘Class 8’ big rig, powered by a 12-litre turbodiesel that puts out a modest 600bhp but – ready for this – almost 2000lb ft of torque, channelled to the road through an 18-speed gearbox, which is one more gear than the Lexus IS-F.
Performance? Well, that’ll depend how many of the aforementioned smutty magazines you’ve loaded into your LoneStar. Suffice to say you won’t be challenging that IS-F in an off-the-line drag race, mind.
Of course, there’ll be plenty of leather-suited moustache-wearers who will moan that the LoneStar HD drags the good name of Harley-Davidson yet further into the mud (remember the Ford F150 Harley-Davidson ute?) but don’t listen to them. They’re just jealous. Jealous of all your chrome and smutty magazines and check shirt the size of a tent. You’re the man. Now go eat some jerky.
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Is this the coolest truck in the history of ever? Yes it is. We have already decided this
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AlKim commented on this article
at 11:37 am on 20 March 2009
Looks a hell of a lot better than the flat-faced lorries we have in Europe.
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AshHorne commented on this article
at 12:01 pm on 20 March 2009
Harley Davidson is all about style. So how can afficionados look at this truck and think it drags the good name through the mud?
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Africord commented on this article
at 01:36 pm on 20 March 2009
In spite of having traveled to the US and seen the amount of superslab our truckers cover, Top Gear doesn't get our big rigs, nor the interests of those who spend a lot of their lives in them. Call it culture clash.
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lambosareforeva commented on this article
at 02:52 pm on 20 March 2009
Culture clash or not, it still looks cool but there is no point in a fancy shmancy big rig. Big rigs are about towing power and reliability, not style.
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Ben27 commented on this article
at 04:10 pm on 20 March 2009
We get DAFs, they get that! How cool is that! No one would cut that up on the road, and it would have no trouble over taking other lorries. We need this truck in the UK!
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