Filed under: Aftermarket, Trucks/Pickups, GMC
Monroe Truck offers production version of Transformers' Ironhide
Ironhide as he appears in the film, Transformers
Of all the GM rides playing Autobots in Transformers, one of the favorites around here is Ironhide (above), who rolls as a completely tricked GMC TopKick 6500 pickup truck when he's not kicking ass, taking names, and intimidating Chihuahuas as the Autobots' weapons specialist. Monroe Truck Equipment, which modifies rides like the TopKick for business owners, has partnered up with Hasbro to offer the ultimate adult Transformers toy: a near-exact Ironhide replica (minus the giant transforming robot element, of course).
Ironhide buyers get twin big-rig-style smokestacks, 20" black wheels wearing massive tires in lieu of the TopKick's standard dualies, custom, powder-coated front and rear bumpers, and a monster winch up front. The only real differences we see on the Monroe Truck version are the amber running lights (Ironhide's are blue) and the non-aero (but more useful) mirrors. As for the look of horror on Prius drivers' faces when you thunder by in this thing, well, that's an intangible that you can't put a value on. Ironhide effing rules![Source: Inside Line]
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Steve C. 5:06PM (7/06/2007)
Umm... can I have Bumblebee (new Camaro version) instead? Please?
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scott 5:17PM (7/06/2007)
Screw Autobots, I want STARSCREAM!!
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Jared 5:22PM (7/06/2007)
I hate SUV and Pickup trucks and their owners but I have no problem with this. Its a novelty vehicle. Its a toy. Nothing wrong with that. If you buy a FJ Cruiser to go offroading, nothing wrong with that. If you buy a regular cab 8 foot bed F-150 to do your work, nothing wrong with that.
However the minute a fat moma thinks she needs this Topkick to be safe and get her fat ass and fatter kids to Walmart, then I think its wrong.
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Mattlach 5:28PM (7/06/2007)
The only issue I have is with how Autoblog presents it.
Threatening drivers of small responsible cars with bodily harm just to compensate for your small dick is pretty lame if you ask me.
Friends don't let friends succumb to machismo bullshit.
Alex Nunez 5:39PM (7/06/2007)
Hey Mattlach,
Show me the part where anyone was threatened with bodily harm. Sensitive much?
geo.stewart 5:38PM (7/06/2007)
you are talking 55K for the cab and chassis. then to dress up the cab to consumer level and put a bed on it, you're tacking on dollars pretty quick for a custom pkg. Beyond the driveability issue, this isnt going out to your urban or suburban family. I'd be surprised at many who chose to go this route without the dualie pkg.
If you thought the F-450 was a handful and not getting many suburban takers, this is another level altogether.
Mattlach 9:11PM (7/06/2007)
Automatically by diving any SUV or Truck on public roads you are threatening good people on the road with bodily harm. With this monstrosity it's even worse.
The best solution to traffic safety is to get all the battering rams off of of public roads. I don't care if that means the demise of Detroit.
People who drive SUV's and trucks are immoral people placing their pathetic cowboy image over the lives of other people.
Jay 12:21PM (7/07/2007)
Chill, Mattlach. People who buy big-ass gas-suckin' tanks and commute to work in the city on traffic-choked rush-hour freeways getting single-digit fuel economy (especially when they're rolling on big shiny wheels that preclude any thoughts of off-road usefulness, which is ostensibly what SUV's are for) are deserving of a kick in the butt. Soccer moms who drop off their kids at practice in a mega-bling Escalade (or worse, the Escalade EXT) are deserving of a kick in the butt, if they ever get off the cell phone.
But you must concede that there are people whose professions require a truck, and there are people (rarer, true) whose professions require an SUV. I'm one of them. When I can get by driving my rusty '92 Civic, I leave the Suburban in the garage. When I can't fit all my gear in my Civic, I drive the Suburban. It's why I bought it.
"Automatically by diving any SUV or Truck on public roads you are threatening good people on the road with bodily harm."
What are you smoking?
"People who drive SUV's and trucks are immoral people placing their pathetic cowboy image over the lives of other people."
Too bad you didn't try to qualify this last one. I'm a schoolteacher by day and a musician by night, but whenever I can, I put on my shitkickers, my cowboy hat, and my big-ass belt buckle with my name written on it upside down just so I can look down and remember that it's me. And let me tell you, that looks great climbing down from my hunter-green '99 Suburban that I bought from my folks.
You're a hater, Mattlach, and don't let me catch you in my town.
JDG 9:55PM (7/22/2007)
All you fad following eco-dweebs sitting here on your high horse about not liking SUV's and pickups now...are the exact same people who a few years ago wanted bigger and bigger vehicles. But just like the rest of the mindless "cattle" you'll follow the next fad that comes along. So shut up already....get a life and decide on some personal convictions. Luckily nobody cares what you think anyway.
geo.stewart 5:29PM (7/06/2007)
That was one kickin movie. I'll take one Jazz, Bumblebee, and Ironhide.
you cant put a price on a dream, though I bet GM will give you one 8^>
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glitched 5:29PM (7/06/2007)
if its a replica, does that mean it will have the autobot symbol on the tailgate?
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Lindsey 5:46PM (7/06/2007)
To bad this isn't a 6500, the 6500 has a much bigger grill for the bigger engine which would be the cat c7 7.2 or Isuzu 7.8. The picture is a 5500 or 4500 which has the 6.6 Duramax.
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TriShield 6:13PM (7/06/2007)
Saleen has a page up on their site about Barricade.
http://www.saleen.com/transformers.htm
When the new Camaro finally debuts GM should offer it in Bumblebee gold with the black stripes too. I'd honestly consider buying it.
How cool would it be to own any one of these vehicles? I'd get an Autobot/Decipticon window sticker and vanity plate for sure. Definitely toys for big, well-off, boys.
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Don 6:15PM (7/06/2007)
Oh, this is the perfect "Urban Lifestyle" vehicle.
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Devin Lussier 6:40PM (7/06/2007)
I saw a non-Transformers one of these on the I5 over the weekend. Lets just say the look of horror wasn't on the face of the Prius driver (me) since I was the one doing the thundering by.
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500 7:01PM (7/06/2007)
^ Algore III in disguise?
Scott Eaton 10:07PM (7/06/2007)
"Threatening drivers of small responsible cars with bodily harm just to compensate for your small dick is pretty lame if you ask me."
Well I find it amusing and I'm a Prius owner (2007, ftw!). Of course, if Mr. Truck here gets all threatening on me, then I just go down the street a mile and by then he's outta gas, outta mind.
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Stoneman 10:46PM (7/06/2007)
All that's missing is the ditzy suburbanite chatting on the cell phone and fiddling to switch out a DVD movie. This brings conspicuous consumption to a whole new obnoxious level.
http://www.stonemanautoreview.com
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Guenther 11:00PM (7/06/2007)
Stew- The F450 actually turns tighter than the 350, due to its front axle design. Likewise, these C5500's turn tighter than a similar C/K3500. The big tires on this could throw it off, however.
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CupcakeMagee 12:37AM (7/07/2007)
Wow, this is only the second article I've seen about him and I'm totally having a love affair with this truck... I heart you Ironsides.
(LMAO @ #14)
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