“Ashton Kutcher’s got a CXT.

So does the Toronto Raptors forward Jalen Rose. Jay Leno and Nick Lachey, star of MTV’s “Newlyweds,” have each taken one for a test drive. And West Coast Customs, the body shop from MTV’s “Pimp My Ride,” is already calling itself the “official customizer” of the CXT.”

Nothing exceeds like excess

“At just over nine feet high, the 7300 CXT, which went on sale in September, weighs about seven tons unloaded, more than twice the weight of the Hummer H2 and equivalent to about five MINI Coopers. The CXT can tow a 20-ton boat and carry another six tons of cargo in the truck bed. Because it rides at the height of an 18-wheeler, drivers will spend most of their time looking at the tops of cars.”

NYT

The desperate search for separation from the ruck by ever more conspicuous consumption. Pathetic.

By the way, who the heck is Ashton Kutcher and why does he have these feelings of inadequacy?