Bad Boy Heavy Muscle 2007
January 1, 2007
Now that the Hummer’s civilian version, the H1, has faded away like any good soldier and the H2 is aimed mostly at soccer moms battling for parking spaces at the mall, what’s left for a guy who considers himself an army of one to drive? Homeland Defense Vehicles LLC of Dallas has a 13,000-pound answer in the hulking form of the Bad Boy HMT (Heavy Muscle Truck). Like the H1, the Bad Boy is a civilian version of a military vehicle, in this case the Medium Tactical Vehicle built by Stewart & Stevenson. Homeland Defense Vehicles converts them into the Bad Boy for anyone who needs a 21-foot long, 10-foot tall diesel powered vehicle that can haul three people and 5,000 pounds on the highway or clamber up 60 percent grades off-road and slosh through five feet of water. A long list of options is topped by an antiterrorist package that pressurizes and filters the passenger cabin when nuclear, biological, or biochemical contaminants are detected in the air.
PRICE: $200,000 to $750,000
ENGINE: 7.2-liter turbocharged 6-cylinder diesel
TRANSMISSION: 7-speed automatic
POWER: 330 hp at 2,400 rpm
TORQUE: 817 ft lbs at 1,600 rpm
CURB WEIGHT: 16,791 pounds
0-60 MPH: n/a
TOP SPEED: 72 mph
PROS: Safely goes where few trucks can go
CONS: You need the Pentagon’s fuel budget
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