At last year's Frankfurt Motor Show, Erin Riches and I spent far too much time around the Mercedes-Benz Actros on display. In person it is spectacularly imposing.
I thought maybe, just maybe, if I moved back to the East Coast I could have enough land to park this thing and justify it as a daily driver. I did not, however, think about using it as a taxi. And if I had, I wouldn't have been clever enough to pick up employees of Volvo and MAN -- competing big-truck makers.
This is the kind of thing you can do when you have a giant budget and a solid sense of humor. Next time: Unimog to shuttle around former Hummer execs.
(Autoblog)
rustyshacklfrd says:
06:30 AM, 02/ 2/12
Who moves to the East Coast for more land?! I live on the East Coast, and I've lived out West. This sentence just makes no sense. lol Go (Stay) West, young man!
stoppre75 says:
07:04 AM, 02/ 2/12
He went too far west!
See: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.0359,+-118.4778&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x80c2bb4edf1f8f8b:0x1e5f970845ebf458,%2B34%C2%B0+2'+9.44%22,+-118%C2%B0+28'+40.12%22&gl=us&ei=5KUqT_FvqNzZBZaj1ZYP&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCAQ8gEwAA
agnh says:
07:25 AM, 02/ 2/12
A little intimidating if it was in your rear view mirror. This thing looks like a damn Transformer.
mlh says:
02:11 PM, 02/ 2/12
Great marketing stunt!
explorerx4 says:
06:12 PM, 02/ 3/12
The dispatcher was definitely not Louie De Palma.